yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

  • LeafletEnglish
    34•1 month ago

    Fedora Silverblue

    • I like Gnome
    • I like that Fedora adopts new technology quickly
    • I like how it makes updates more reliable
    • I like flatpak
    • @[email protected]English
      9•1 month ago

      Same here, I use Silverblue as host OS on all of my workstations now, and Arch for nearly all of my containers.

      Flatpak for just about everything in the userspace.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 month ago

        I was using Debian and Docker for my servers, but I’m switching to uCore and Podman. It was a decent learning curve, but I think I’m going to like it better.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•28 days ago

          I hated postman so much I switched back to Docker. Why compose was better at handling dependent containers then quadlets. Yes I could use postman compose but heard it’s no longer supported and if I’m using it might as well use a supported docker compose.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•28 days ago

            I never used Docker compose. If I had two containers that needed to communicate, I’d just setup networking for them.

    • themadcodger
      7•1 month ago

      I use the Bluefin flavor of Silverblue. I like not having to tinker with my laptop to keep it working, everything happens in the background.

    • Mwas alt (prob)OPEnglish
      3•1 month ago

      I like flatpak

      i am kinda the opposite of you, i find flatpacks meh its alright.

            • @[email protected]
              2•1 month ago

              I see being facetious is lost. Yes I know they don’t use a lot of space, however, they do package all their own dependencies. That means you do end up with duplicates.

              • @[email protected]English
                8•1 month ago

                Appimages do. Flatpaks have runtimes. There may be multiple runtimes but space is cheap. You can even spare the amount of space on a phone.

                I once thought I should compress my images because they had 10mb each. I was wrong. I just had to put them on my server with immich and I don’t care about the space anymore. One 4k video is so big, all space related problems with apps or images are a real waste of time.

          • Gregor
            5•1 month ago

            SSDs have become incredibly cheap, and flatpak doesn’t even use that much storage space.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 month ago

        Options include:

        • Installing them through brew; this is setup, enabled and configured correctly by default on uBlue projects like Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin.
        • Installing them within a container; be it though Toolbx or Distrobox. This is what Fedora Atomic initially intended (and probably still does).
        • Some users got a lot of mileage from utilizing nix to this effect.
        • If all else fails (or if you outright prefer it this way), you can always layer it through rpm-ostree.
      • LeafletEnglish
        4•1 month ago
        1. Flatpak, create a shell script to call the flatpak command and pass arguments
        2. If the app doesn’t work well as a flatpak or isn’t packaged, I would use distrobox
        3. If the app doesn’t work well in distrobox, I’d rpm-ostree install it
        4. If I’m feeling fancy, I might look into installing homebrew. But you need to do some workarounds with PATH and homebrew otherwise it can break things; Universal Blue includes these workarounds out of the box