So, I have been using Project Bluefin the past few days, on two separate devices.

One is my now aging "gaming laptop" a circa 2018 nVidia Optimus equipped Dell G7, and the other an all Intel equipped Lenovo T14 that I bought used off eBay a couple years back.

So far I like everything about it... so much so that I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and the suck to appear, but so far there's nothing but pleasant surprise after pleasant surprise.

#linux
#bluefin
#fedora
#silverblue

Installing Fedora Silverblue on a Thinkpad L14 that my son doesn’t use anymore. Goodbye Windows 11.

I like my Alienware X14 R1 running Fedora, but there are some niggles about the hardware. It’s a 14” laptop with the footprint of a 16”. Its wrist rest is super short and trackpad tiny. The keyboard is mediocre.

I think I just ran into a great example of how different tasks can require different energy levels that don't necessarily match their "difficulty".

I recently got a "new to me" laptop and at first set it up with Fedora Workstation but quickly realized I much prefer Fedora Silverblue (not the point of this post, so I won't get into why here) and needed to re setup everything. I didn't want to click through a ton of apps in GNOME Software and install them all individually then organize them in the overview.

So instead of doing all that manually I wrote a bash script from scratch to:

- remove any rpm packages I didn't want
- remove any flatpaks I didn't want
- reinstall fedora flatpaks from flathub
- remove the fedora flatpaks repo
- layer the few rpm packages I wanted
- install all the flatpak apps I wanted.
- create custom folders in the overview
- sort all the apps in those custom folders
- pin my most used apps to the dock

This felt like it required way less energy for me. Not because it was easier or faster. In fact I'm really rusty at bash scripting and I didn't even know how to organize the overview from the terminal, so I even had to learn something new and it probably took me way longer. But writing a little script was more fun for me and therefore didn't feel draining or overwhelming like the tedious task of clicking around for a couple hours would have.

#Linux #Fedora #Silverblue #BashScript #ADHD

Am I the only one, that gets 502 from some #Fedora #Silverblue / rpm-ostree mirror at the moment?

I'm weighing the benefits vs. headaches in Atomic Fedora (Silverblue/Kinoite 41) and traditional distros (Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc).

I've said before that I feel like I run into one serious bug for every two Fedora releases, and right now I'm dealing with two:

* Kernel 6.13 doesn't play well with Flatpaks

* I can't do an rpm-ostree upgrade without some hackery

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Is your Fedora system doing a lot of crashing/freezing lately?

It could be Linux kernel 6.13, which is affecting Flatpak and FUSE apps.

My Fedora Kinoite system was definitely suffering, especially with Flatpak browsers, until I rolled back to the 2/24 deployment.

This file tells you everything you need to know:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/bug-in-kernel-6-13-crashing-flatpak-and-fuse-apps/146201

Thanks @Rhababerbarbar

Am I the only Fedora Kinoite or Silverblue user with a bad mirror that keeps me from updating the main system?

$ rpm-ostree upgrade
Receiving metadata objects: 3/(estimating) 28.1 kB/s 84.2 kB... done
error: While pulling fedora/41/x86_64/kinoite: While fetching https://d2uk5hbyrobdzx.cloudfront.net/objects/10/deeab1b9b444dfa6f396ee3e06189d7d22fcb6393d1b029533586617012c22.dirtree: Server returned HTTP 502

I had my first issue with fedora Silverblue in the many years I've been using it.

Today's update touched rpm-ostree and rpm-ostree-libs and resulted in a GNOME session lock-up.

I triggered that by launching the Secrets application (password manager) which resulted in a Force Quit/Wait loop.

Rolling-back the update put things back into working order.

I spent too much time today trying to figure out how to make the clipboard work in the Neovim and Neovide Flatpaks in Fedora Kinoite.

It only works after I run :checkhealth

Nothing I put in my init.vim made any difference.

None of the tutorials really got into possible fixes in this situation (Atomic Fedora and Flatpak)

Most of my .vimrc didn't transfer over. All of my macros and abbreviations are broken.

To test my theory that it's something in the world of GTK desktops that is causing my intermittent issue with suspend/resume and shutdown (in which the screen goes blank and the system doesn't resume or turn off about 10% of the time), I am currently rebasing my Fedora Silverblue system to Kinoite.

Let's see if this works -- both as a working system and for the power-management issue.

Returned to my learning #rust journey. This time using the Zed editor on #fedora #silverblue

Obviously, Rust is installed and updated through a flatpak Sdk extension so it's just a case of making that available to Zed (which is already done for GNOME Builder).

The Zed terminal panel is used to install rustlings using Cargo and then initialise the empty rustlings directory Zed was started in (cd .. ; rustlings init).

Then execute rustlings run with The Rust Book in a browser.

Having to replace the Windows 10 installed on my mom's laptop when she'll be visiting me later in the year, I'm starting to look at some #Linux distributions to install on her #MicrosoftSurfaceGo .

Anyone have experience and comments to share on using Linux on this computer.

So far I'm thinking of installing either #Fedora #Silverblue or #Bluefin

Has anyone run @fedora #Silverblue as a daily driver? If so, what has your experience been?

I think I've been running Fedora Silverblue for three releases now — at least a year and a half — and it is a very solid system.

Right now I'm happy about recent steps to improve the boot system (bootc) and the introduction of the ptyxis terminal to provide better integration for Toolbx/Distrobox/etc.

Recent improvements in GNOME — especially in Files — are also nice to see.

Is Fedora KDE Plasma really that good? Maybe I should rebase my Silverblue to Kinoite and give it a go.

@jorge Is #uBlue still GitHub-dependent? I'm debating whether to deploy vanilla Silverblue to my family's computers. #FreeSoftware #Fedora #Silverblue #GNU #Linux

Fedora 41 has been released! Here are the release notes for the Fedora 41 Atomic Desktops: https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2024/10/30/fedora-atomic-desktops-41/

I'll also post it as a Fedora Magazine article later.