Dude I get it. You're in your FREEDOM arc and you feel like hosting mail-in-a-box to learn Nix is a good use of your time. Those of you looking for jobs: I am tired of seeing the next generation of open source contributors shooting themselves in the foot.| Jorge Castro
With Fedora 37 on the cusp of releasing I thought I'd also check in on openSUSE's MicroOS. The team has been been working diligently on improvements over the course of the year. I thought now would be a nice time to compare and contrast them directly. I have been using| Jorge Castro
Stuff about open source, beagles, and probably other less interesting things.| Jorge Castro
One of the worst things about being a Linux user is that you have to deal with Linux users from time to time. Like the time an extension author had to quit due to being shit on by users. I wasn't able to screenshot it, but my Just Perfection app| Jorge Castro
(Originally from October 2023, updated September 2024) I'm a strong believer in the next generation Linux desktop model - which splits what is typically one monolithic system into different layers. This has been great for us at Universal Blue because it allows us to reuse Fedora's| Jorge Castro
Sometimes people ask me how I keep track of all the cool new tools that everyone is using. One of the great things about being at the CNCF is that I kind of ended up in the middle of the intersection of lots of tech people. I'm therefore| Jorge Castro
Today we "relaunched" ublue-os/bluefin as projectbluefin.io. This is a beta until Spring 2024. Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So| Jorge Castro
Of all the things people argue about! Ultimately they both do the same thing – take an existing workflow that I know, and add an abstraction layer that gives us tons of new options. Interactivity within the container's shell is powerful, but there needs to be user experience| Jorge Castro
Every once in a while I see someone complaining that they've lost work because their toolbox/distrobox got destroyed. I'm going to go over how we can use declarative config to remove this bit of jank from our lives. We don't want distroboxes to| Jorge Castro
And a great hotrodded SteamOS, and a great developer-focused image with all the awesome cloud-native tools. TLDR: Universal Blue is a toolkit for making your own custom image of the Fedora Silverblue variants. So we do a bunch of cool stuff with it. This post will make much more sense| Jorge Castro
Ooooh I just had to pick a saucy title. Thanks to Josh Stone and Alex Diaz we now have a working Nvidia image of Fedora Silverblue. We've hopefully just removed a whole pile of jank from your setups: by moving the driver building process to the cloud we can now| Jorge Castro
One of the nice things about being on sabbatical is I get to say things like "You should be happy that RHEL is dropping LibreOffice RPMs" without the fear of being kicked out a room you didn't want to be in the first place. I have been talking for a| Jorge Castro
If you're new to the blog I'll give you the quick TLDR: Most traditional desktop linuxes aren't reliable enough to be suitable for consumer usage, but immutable models like Silverblue are seen as too rigid to be customized to what people want. Ironic isn't it, the entire thing is designed| Jorge Castro
Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, openSUSE MicroOS, EndlessOS, and VanillaOS ... it certainly is an exciting time on our journey towards more reliable Linux desktops! Each of them take different approaches to moving towards a more zero-trust/cloud-native approach to the desktop. Fedora and EndlessOS are all in on ostree, openSUSE is using| Jorge Castro
While moving to an image based operating system has been a gamechanger for me it's important to remember that if it's doing it's job it's invisible. My graphical applications are already handled by Flatpak, so I thought I would take some time investing in modernizing my command line workflow. Toolbx| Jorge Castro
It's been over a year since Asteroid Linus Tech Tips hit the Linux desktop, and I'm happy to report that the move to image-based desktops is making some amazing progress! Recently some things have been landing in Fedora that have enabled me to remove more fragility from the client. Currently,| Jorge Castro
There's lot of options when it comes to desktop linuxes. You might be looking for which one has the best desktop or window manager you like, or some cool feature you can't get anywhere else, or maybe the people you hang out with are experts in one and it makes| Jorge Castro
