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Cool coverage from How-To Geek on their experience with Fedora Silverblue!
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-ive-gone-all-in-on-fedora-silverblue/
Do you use Silverblue or one of the other Fedora Atomic Desktops? How do you agree or disagree with their points?
@fedora Correct me if I'm wrong, but Silverblue only installs flatpaks and is more locked down. I prefer to have full control of my system and install whatever I want.
@privateme @fedora You can still install RPMs using rpm-ostree. The underlying FS is a bit like git, but for file system images, so each thing you install becomes a delta on the image and can be removed by just omitting that delta rather than undoing the install.
@tokensane @fedora And does rpm-ostree have any less packages?
@privateme @tokensane (I think all) rpms can be installed on a Fedora Atomic system with rpm-ostree, but it is layered onto the image as Token said, meaning that updates take much longer than on a regular Linux system.
The recommended order for installing apps is flatpak, then containers, then rpm-ostree layering.
It's powerful if you adapt to the model, but for now you do have to adapt.
@privateme @fedora I don't understand the question. rpm-ostree is a tool that manages RPM packages, same as dnf.
@tokensane @fedora Sorry, didn't see this, I understand what it is now, thanks!