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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by Topfi on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:46PM (#36248734)
Fedora Workstation and especially Silverblue made Linux work for me in a way no distribution I have used before has been able to. Being bleeding edge yet stable and reliable just made it so pleasant, coming from a mix of Slitaz, Elementary and Manjaro.
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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by mrtedbear on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:15PM (#36249192)
Also switched to Silverblue and love it.

Ubuntu wasn't especially bad, it was more that Silverblue made so much sense. It fixed the issues I was having with other distros where messiness would creep into my setup over time.

I also tried NixOS, but it felt too rigid. Silverblue offered the same benefits of immutability without a loss of flexibility.

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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by howinteresting on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:12PM (#36251840)
Do you do development on it? If so, how do you work around Silverblue's restrictions? Curious about people's experiences.
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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by mrtedbear on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:23AM (#36253599)
I do. I use toolboxes for pretty much all my development. I've scripted the setup each type of toolbox I use, so they can be reproduced. I use a terminal editor (neovim), but I think it's possible to run vscode from a toolbox too[1].

For graphical apps (browsers etc.) the flatpaks are very handy.

The above setup means I don't really need to layer much in the OS, mainly drivers and common terminal utilities.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/107lvlf/silverblue_...

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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by akvadrako on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:03AM (#36254318)
It's a great design for development since your dev environments are isolated and you can have multiple, without risking breaking your main OS.

I use a combination of toolbox, distrobox, flatpak, docker, homebrew, junest and custom bwrap scripts.

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Re:Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here? by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:48PM (#36248767)
Yeah, I agree (although with Kinoite because fuck GNOME). It still has plenty of issues, but at least I don't feel like I'm constantly fighting the system just to use software.
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