Nextcloud mobile worked okay-ish for me, but it worked.
Another thing you could try is Syncthing.
I personally decided to pay for the sync, because I like Logseq a lot and wanted to support the devs. I also lost some lines and notes from time and time when using a local sync (Nextcloud), and that’s a thing that’s a deal-breaker for me, so I happily pay for that.
But I wish this sync-feature would be self-hostable soon…
Now that you’ve convinced me this might be the best course (I only see less problems than other distros would have)
Sometimes, software, especially install scripts for something, are less common for Silverblue, but executing those is very risky anyway and I never felt the need for it.
And, as I said, some things just work differently. But NixOS is one million times worse than that in that regard, so don’t worry about it. You shouldn’t have many issues.
any recommended reading or key concepts I should look into? Any particular flavor(s) you’d point me to first?
I don’t know. In my opinion, my post should cover most stuff concepts and differences.
Don’t worry about it, you’ll use Flatpak anyway most of the time, and it updates itself automatically, so the package manager (rpm-ostree) doesn’t matter much for you.
You can still use your prefered package manager (apt, dnf, etc.) in Distrobox.
Other than that, just don’t worry and use your laptop for whatever you want to do.
And about flavor choice, there are a few options:
Just go to the uBlue homepage and see for yourself what appeals to you :)
I don’t know what I should say tbh 😅
For the start, you can read my post about image based distros: https://feddit.de/post/8234416
Imo, Fedora Atomic is NixOS made easy. You can go to the uBlue-builder and modify a custom image if you’re a tinkerer.
NixOS is down-to-top (local config file that defines your host), while uBlue is top-to-bottom (you modify an image, image gets built on GitHub and then shipped to you).
This allows you to fork or create an existing “distro” without having to maintain a whole distro yourself.
Other than that, especially uBlue is extremely user friendly imo.
I love nothing else more.
Compared to Bazzite, there shouldn’t be (m)any differences. You can see Bazzite just as a gaming-oriented Bluefin
they have done away with OS-tree? Because that would make this entirely based on FlatPaks and no other options, which is a huge block for me.
I don’t understand exactly what you mean with that, but I think you are afraid of any restrictions.
If you are like myself and use your PC mainly for gaming, and your laptop just for casual use (watching videos, writing notes, etc.), then you can also take a look at Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE).
It’s a “replacement” for the stock Fedora Silverblue/ Kinoite with QoL stuff and on the spectrum between Bazzite (“bloated”) and the uBlue base image (extremely lean, missing a few standard apps by default) and gives you the choice between “I’m a casual user” (-> only what you need) and the “developer edition”, which includes some IDEs and stuff.
I like it a lot and think of it as “Bazzite, without gaming stuff”. Maybe you’ll like it too!
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The difference with Fedora Atomic, which I think you refer to, is that it’s totally open. For example, people started using the OCI containers differently than Fedora intended, which resulted in uBlue and stuff like Bazzite.
Also, no one forces you to use Flatpak. You can still use Distrobox and use Pacman/ APT/ DNF/ whatever you prefer and export your apps that way. It’s just that Flatpak “won” and doesn’t have many drawbacks, and is very convenient. I mostly like them.
And, most importantly, Fedora is the fronteer of innovation.
There were many projects and ideas that failed, but many more succedded (Wayland, image based distros, etc.), and Project Atomic is just one more “testing ground” that is well thought out imo. Therefore people are expecting to “test out” new generation Linux stuff, it’s just part of Fedora. If you don’t like that, use Debian instead.
I can recommend you to give Fedora Atomic a chance, it’s an extremely nice family of distros (e.g. Bluefin/ Aurora, Bazzite, etc.)!
Edit: one more thing is that Fedora is, in contrast to Ubuntu, not controlled by a company. RedHat doesn’t have nearly as much influence as people think, it’s mainly community driven, and therefore choices aren’t (in theory) influenced by $$$
You could give the uBlue builder a shot, which can do exactly that.
But I think NixOS is a better choice for a tinkerer like you :)
It won’t transform the old device into a gaming beast, but if you do some lighter gaming with it, why not just try it? :)
If you don’t like it or want something more vanilla/ general purpose, you can always rebase to other Fedora Atomic variants, e.g. Silverblue, Kinoite, uBlue community images (Secureblue, Deepin, etc.) anytime you want! This changes the “flavor” (basically like switching from Linux Mint to Kubuntu by reinstall) without loosing any data or settings with one command. It’s so fucking great!
Are u sure it didn’t shut down when you were away?
uBlue updates itself, yes, but the updates are staged and need a reboot to apply.
That would be very very hard and unreliable.
Bazzite is more than just “preinstalled Steam”, it has a list of tweaks, optimizations and additions so long you can’t even finish reading it all! 😅
This includes a different kernel, pre-configured containers, and much more.
If you do that on a regular system, configuration drift would quickly destroy any good experience in no time and result in a huge mess.
uBlue provides a solid base distribution (pretty much stock Fedora) and applies exactly your way, but in upstream, and then copies that new image to millions of PCs. By doing that, you can provide many many identical copies that are the same everywhere and always up to date, without the burden of maintaining a whole distro like on Nobara.
The hard and boring work of maintaining a distro is on the shoulders of the Fedora team, and you only have to maintain your own changes.
This seems something with too big of an attack surface.
Not really.
It’s basically Nobara, but properly done. (If you choose the desktop version)
It gets updates automatically (max one day after upstream Fedora), has everything you want ootb in the first start wizard, is more secure, and much more.
I was very sceptical at first, but after trying it out, I really noticed some minor performance improvements in games and many QoL improvements, e.g. the preinstalled LACT, which allows me to set up fan curves and over-/ underclock my GPU.
Setting up my new PC took me about half an hour maximum.
9/10, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smooth gaming experience.
Andere Instanz, in meinem Fall Solarpunk (slrpnk.net) weil es meinem Mindset und Interessen entspricht
Ich habe echt allergrößten Respekt vor den Admins.
Klar, ich bin schon etwas genervt, dass die Seite nicht nur unzuverlässig funktioniert, aber ich versuche mir immer wieder ins Gedächtnis zu rufen, dass das alles in deren Freizeit und aus deren eigenen Geldbeutel passiert, daher kann und will ich ihnen nicht böse sein und auch nicht so viel meckern.
Ich würde mir irgendwie wünschen und vorschlagen, dass die Admins einen Verein aufmachen und Feddit.de dann als Verein, nicht Einzelperson, anbieten.
Damit könnten wir sie finanziell und mit sonstigen Ressourcen (mehr Manpower, ggfs. irgendwann mal Kosten für Anwalt, Kommunikationsstellen, etc.) unterstützen.
So, wie es momentan läuft, mach ich das aber leider nicht mehr mit. Ich sehe, dank der mangelnden Kommunikation, leider keinen wirklichen Fortschritt in der jetzigen Situation und habe Schiss, dass mein Content, in den ich echt viel Zeit gesteckt habe, irgendwann mal komplett gelöscht wird, und das wäre unverzeihlich.
Deswegen werde ich vorerst, wie sehr viele andere User hier auch, auswandern. Sorry…
The cool thing is: you can rebase to any other Fedora Atomic variant if you want with one single command, which feels like a clean reinstall, but you keep your settings and data.
Pretty neat if you want to get the newest rolling release feature from rawhide, then rebase to KDE and then an Ubuntu clone.
You can also make your own images from skratch with the uBlue builder :)
What else? :D
I used the “normal” Fedora (Workstation and KDE spin) for years and now moved to the Atomic variants.
Especially uBlue is fucking great, as it is just the default Fedora Atomic with some tweaks and QoL-changes.
It basically “just works” ootb and maintains itself.
You can take a look at Bazzite if you’re into gaming for example.
It’s also very customisable, but you have to learn a different approach.
I personally would give it a chance if I were you, but beware, you have to learn a new workflow
See my post about it for more information: https://feddit.de/post/8234416
I personally strongly prefer Atomic to the mutable version, but that’s my taste. If you prefer the traditional variant, then go for it. In that case, you don’t need to know anything particular, it’s nothing special :)
I sadly can’t give you any input or help, but I really appreciate your idea and, coincidentally, thought about the exact same thing today 😁
I think a more stable (slower release) variant of Fedora Atomic would be absolutely great for people who don’t like change as much as current Fedora users.
A more conservative variant would be great, especially for companies.
The combination of a stable system (in terms of update frequency and changes) with the unbreakability and deployability would be a huge win.
Imagine being the admin of a small company, class or department and just creating your own uBlue-image with all software your team needs and rebase a dozen PCs to that image. Would be awesome!
I think, currently, Fedora is sometimes too experimental and leading edge, which might be a problem for some people, especially in the business world. Having a more stable variant would be great.
Looks like a False Parasol in my eyes, though remote ID is a bit hard of course.
Why? The edible Parasol is usually brown with a dark brown underside, has flakes at the cap and stem, and the ring is detachable.
But don’t trust my impression alone please, I’m no ID expert!