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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: ‘I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? It becomes much more like the phones and tablets that people are already used to. Go to an app store and get a packaged flatpak app and you’re done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If all you care about is stability, check my other comments about the Fedora Atomic family. Hard to be more stable than immutable with built-in rollback capabilities. That’s why I currently run Aurora DX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest downside to Flatpaks is that they’re kind of containers. That’s obviously also they’re biggest upside. But with that isolation comes some bloat compared to rpms directly installed, some don’t integrate as cleanly with the host OS, etc… The Universal Blue images ship with Flatseal and Warehouse which help manage those Flatpaks. For example, if you want to add an external library to the Steam Flatpak, you can use Flatseal to allow the Steam Flatpak to access that directory. By default Steam sandboxes itself to just its own ~/.var area.

  A word on toolbox. It’s really cool and it comes with Fedora Atomic spins. However, it was forked and the fork is called distrobox and is miles better. So much better that it’s my opinion that we at Red Hat should deprecate toolbox and just embrace distrobox. What is it? It’s really just a wrapper for podman. It sets up containers to act kind of, sort of like VMs or LXC system containers, but it mounts your home directory inside the container. You can share apps between the distrobox and the host. The idea is that you can create a distrobox for whatever thing you’re doing, install all of that thing’s dependencies, and work from your home directory, but never actually touch your host installation. Kind of like a devcontainer for your system.

  Snap is the one we poo poo. Canonical is always going to Canonical. Just like when they tried to make the Unity desktop (which I actually preferred) and the Mir compositor, the community had already settled on GNOME 3 and Wayland. This is sort of snap vs flatpak. Last I knew snap used a proprietary, hosted by Canonical, backend. That’s a big no from me. I’m not staunchly open source or nothing, but there is just no reason for Canonical to be making proprietary anything.

  If you can’t tell, I’m stoked about the immutable future of Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  systemctl enable syncthing@user is easier than dealing with podman containers right now.

  You should check out podman quadlets. It turns your containers into systemd services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It just works” is why Linus Torvalds uses Fedora and not Debian. Just saying… Debian does a lot of weird hand holding and many packages come with pre-configured pieces rather than what the developer pushed. They’re usually sensible, but if you don’t know it’s doing that it can be strange. For example, fail2ban on Debian will come with an SSH jail pre-configured. That is what most people use it for, but IMO it’s kind of weird that someone made that decision for you on an app that isn’t pre-installed.

  In the defense of Debian vs Ubuntu, Debian won’t force snaps on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Silverblue is a totally different beast than what you’re used to. The filesystem is immutable with the exception of /var and /etc. Even /home is moved into /var/home, although a bind mount exists so /home still appears to be there. You are expected to use flatpaks for applications, toolbox for rpms that don’t have a flatpak, and very last resort you can overlay an rpm on the base image. I absolutely think this is the direction linux as a whole is moving. OpenSUSE has MicroOS that does a similar thing and Leap 16 will default to being immutable. Debian has an immutable variant, and SteamOS is built on an immutable flavor of Arch. The Fedora Atomic family specifically supports bootc. You are essentially booting a container as your OS. That’s why it has so much community buy in. You could try looking at the Universal Blue images I mentioned. Bazzite is gaming focused with the option to boot straight into gaming mode, Aurora is a general workstation with KDE, and Bluefin is a general workstation based on GNOME. Each image has a DX version that includes developer tools like VScode and Virtual Machine Manager included.

  I’m also a sysad by trade. A consultant for Red Hat. I personally switched to Aurora DX and the only overlayed package I have installed is clevis-dracut so network based disk encryption with tang works. Other than that I have the built-in stuff, flatpaks (Steam is installed this way), and a couple of utilities installed with brew (btop, nvtop). I also don’t want to manage the OS. Getting the OS updates as an atomic image is very appealing. OStree also allows you to rollback if an update does fail for some reason… Doing it this way makes your OS kind of an appliance that you run applications on top of instead of alongside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fedora is the obvious answer for you. It’s upstream from your upstream. It has the same tooling you’re used to, but newer packages. A less obvious answer is to embrace the atomic/immutable future and look at Fedora Silverblue or the stuff that the Universal Blue community is putting out. I switched from Silverblue to Aurora-dx and I’ve been extremely happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Grand Tour’ Not Moving Forward at Amazon Prime Video With Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As fun as they are to watch, I would fully support them retiring if they wanted. I imagine retirement for them just means doing whatever little side projects they think will be fun.