Guenther_Amanita @ Guenther_Amanita @feddit.de

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Each to their own. I'm not too, I prefer simple and clean setups.
But if one likes to stare at neon colored anime tiddies for 10 h a day straight, go for it bro ✌️

It was only to show that you don't need root access to get a working device.
As I said, I had to lie a bit so that everyone gets my point.

If you know how Android's storage system works in every detail, you're not the demographic I had in my mind.
The post is mainly to get a rough understanding, not to nitpick on every detail.

You can still try it. On a not-as-powerful PC it will take a bit longer of course, the only thing I would recommend having is a GPU.
On a CPU it will take literally ages to create one picture, speaking from experience.

Just give it a try. Even if your laptop is a bit underpowered, half an hour for a set isn't a huge problem. Just go cooking or showering in the meantime and let it process in the meanwhile 😁

Better yet, use EasyDiffusion.

It's a one-click install, especially for Linux.
(I'd recommend setting it up in Distrobox for a cleaner environment.)

It runs local on your GPU. So, if you need heating, you can just use your PC now for the winter 😁

Thanks for your opinion! :)

Yeah, I've searched for river a bit, but there's not much content out there.
For the start, I wanna stick to something more popular.
I think Hyprland has a bigger user base.

Sway looks a bit barebones/ old fashioned due to lack of animations.
Don't get me wrong, it certainly is "the default" and "ol' reliable", but it seems to be very limited, due to the constraint of just replacing i3.
Stuff like smooth animations, dynamic tiling, and more, sound a bit needless for many, but for me, looks and smoothness is very important.
I will try Hyprland in a VM first and then look for a pre-made uBlue-image or try installing it in Distrobox/ Nix.

Not at all in my opinion!
I also have a home server and execute more niche software.

Doing both is absolutely no problem, due to containers. I will add you my recent post about Distrobox below, so you don't have to search for it.
Once you notice, that I can run every software I want, including stuff from the AUR, you pretty much never feel any limitations.
Using your default package manager is so old school 😁
Edit: here's the link to my post
https://feddit.de/post/8018330

Even in the other way around, I'm thinking about using CoreOS or MicroOS (both image-based headless distros) for said server, in case I need to rebuild it.
There too you only use Docker or Podman, which is a reason why even that should be no problem at all.
That just would give me the guarantee that it works all the time.

When I installed Tumbleweed not so long ago, I also had problems. The installer is notorious for giving you an unusable system sometimes, even when using the defaults.

Don't worry mate!
Sometimes, things are not as user friendly as they should be, it's not your fault. I started without any knowledge or IT background only 3 years ago too and you will get the hang of it soon.
And don't fixate too much on what "you're supposed to use". Only because image-based OSs are hip now, doesn't mean Mint or whatever else is useless.

Same for me!

I didn't want to include my own experiences, but I'm also a "noob".
I never worked in IT and only try new things, like Linux, Android custom ROMS, selfhosting, and more, because I just enjoy it.
But in the end, I just want a modern and reliable system that doesn't get into my way.

I will include that information in my next post tho, where I wanna show that this technology is usable by everyone, even a dumbass like myself.

I even had the same problem with the MullbadVPN-app, where I just gave up in the end and used the Wireguard protocol implementation from Gnome.

Thanks!

Yeah, of course you're right. As I said in the beginning, I had to lie a bit for simplification.

But, rebooting is the recommended way to keep everything running buttery smooth. I personally also recommend just sticking to the usage guidelines, since you don't have to layer any stuff on regular basis. Just rebooting and losing one minute once a while is worth it for me. I work in containers anyway, see my Distrobox-post.

The --apply-live-tag also only applies to rpm-ostree, not to A/B-root afaik, and I wanted to keep it a bit more general.

Thanks! 🙂

Fedora Atomic also uses symlinks. Basically everything is stored in /var/, including your /home/.

I really recommend giving it a try if you want. My top recommendation is uBlue, either Gnome or KDE. There are also many other images around if you want, depending what you like.

Yeah, that's what I've heard too. Right now, dual booting seems to be hard too on the same drive. I think it's because if the unusual disk layout.

You have got to be the biggest promoter of immutable distros on lemmy.

I unironically think I might be that. One of the main reasons I wrote this post is to just send it as "read further" option when I recommend uBlue in every second thread.

If I wouldn't post other stuff, one might think I am a bot or something 😅

i feel they are great for the casual users who will just browse the web, play some games and maybe do some document reading and editing.

Yes, as one partial group. If you don't use your PC to its full potential, you won't run into problems. 90% is web based anyway.

Right now, they are super interesting especially for early adopters and experienced users. For the middle ground user, e.g. if you researched for Linux yourself but don't have much experience otherwise, you might run into some problems that require other people to help you or a bit of research on forums.
But I don't think that will happen anyway and I still would recommend it to most people.

Is there a fork of Sway, that is more future oriented and wants to break that original idea of just replacing i3?
I've heard something of SwayFX. Is it something like that?

I think I will just try many different ones with someone else's customisation in a VM and see what I like.

Canonical: "Hey, I've heard you all hate Snaps."
Community: "Yeah, they suck! Use Flatpaks and other technologies instead, like everyone else."
Canonical: "Alright. Here's a whole distro with Snaps at its' base. You're welcome!"
Community: "..."

You're welcome! Glad to help.

Just remember that Silverblue/ the immutable desktops are still relatively new. For more information, read my newest post about image based desktops. It's hopefully written in a way everyone can understand it, no matter the prior experience :)

I personally use Forge, which does the same. It seems better supported, since the pop-shell will probably be abandoned when Cosmic releases

Go to https://universal-blue.org/installation/ and download the image. It's a net-installer, so you can use a small USB stick too. Then just install it the way you would any other distro, e.g. Fedora Workstation. Done.

For me, that didn't work at the time due to internet problems. If you encounter issues, do the following:

1. Go to https://fedoraproject.org/silverblue/ and download the normal Silverblue version there and install it the same way you did the Workstation.
2. Go to https://universal-blue.org/images/, open your terminal and rebase. Do that by pasting rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-surface (I think that's the correct image) and wait for it to download and apply.
3. Reboot
4. Open the terminal again and paste rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-surface:latest. Wait and reboot again.
   It isn't as elegant as the first option, but if it doesn't work, then consider the alternative steps.

I also tried that too. Bismuth and all the other ones.

There were some that were actually okay tbh, but they are still janky, like they aren't supposed to exist. In that regard, KDE (Kwin) is even worse than Gnome (Mutter), at least bug wise and in my own experience.

They all felt like I am using a tractor to drive to work. They work, yes, but I think I will get a better experience on something that was designed from the ground up to work like that.
I wanna let floating WMs do their thing, and tiling WMs do theirs.

Edit: The best one was Polonium, but it was very buggy and I couldn't even close or move windows graphically. The documentation didn't help too.

I also have to add that I'm no IT-guy. I'm pretty much only a tech-enthusiastic normie who likes Linux and tries a lot.
I don't have any experience in coding and think I will mainly use the templates (dotfiles, bars, search box, etc.) from others, at least for the start.

What do you like about the Manjaro-Sway? What does it differently than other implementations?
I will definitely give it a try to test it out and then try to replicate it in Fedora. Thanks!

The suckless software is a big no for me. It might be good for some people, but I heard most of it is hard to configure (at least for a noob like myself) and comes very ...minimalist... out of the box.
I don't like the suckless philosophy for my use case, I want "bloat", as weird as it sounds. I don't want or need a super minimalist system, I want it comfortable and everything working out of the box.