I really appreciate the other #linux nerds that pointed me in the direction of #auroradx. #bazzite is still pretty cool, but Aurora meets my particular use case a little better.

I've now been driving it for about a month, and I am *really* liking it.

For any #Fedora #kde enthusiasts that haven't tried an atomic distro yet, check out https://getaurora.dev.

I don't actually think I'll be going back to regular workstation.

After I made the decision to move away from #apple at least for my laptop, I decided to get an Asus and go all in on #linux for daily driving. I’ve been using various Linux distros at work for years, but rarely as an end user in a desktop environment.

I’ve had my #asus #Zephyrus #ryzen now for a few weeks. I’m running @fedora #auroradx and it is really well thought out. Lots of great quality of life features that are very Mac-like, and I’m happy with the distro. The performance is great. I can game. I’m happy with that side of things.

That said, the sooner we all make the switch to ARM, the better.

I’ve been running an M3 #MacBookpro for work for several months. I knew, in spite of the positives, there were going to be some migration pains moving to Linux full time.

The biggest drawback that I wasn’t expecting? Battery life.

My M3 can run for *days* on a single charge, under medium use. Under heavy use (gaming, k8s, etc), I can still *easily* get 6-7 hours.

My brand new Asus? Just under 3. And that’s with the display set to low brightness and eco performance mode in the OS. And I’m even running AMD, so I can only imagine how terrible Intel would’ve been.

That hurts.
It was incredible to just rarely have to worry about battery. Even when you hit 10% battery, you often still have a solid 45 minutes to an hour before you even have to worry.
It is really disappointing to go back to the background irritation of always needing to know where my power cable is.

x86 can go ahead and pass into the history books. Kthx bye.

Linux coworkers: {Distrobox/Tailscale/...} is so cool, what method did you use to install it?

Me: I got it pre-installed.

#uBlue #FedoraAtomic #BluefinDX #AuroraDX

Has anyone moved from a rolling release (I'm on #Manjaro now, after many years in #Mint and #Ubuntu) to an atomic release with containerised applications? I'm looking at #AuroraDX or #Fedora #Kinote).

I left Ubuntu because of Chromium Snap. Left Mint to try and get rid of a sea of PPAs and still have modern apps. Now the typical AUR, etc hassles lead me to wonder if maybe just using #Flatpak is good enough.

What do y'all think? I have Framework 13 AMD, Dell Sputniks, and random Lenovos.

@blaise @voyager @joojmachine @Joseph_of_Earth

Maybe rebase to #BluefinDX / #AuroraDX, there you can use both Podman and Docker, Podman Desktop support both of them plus K8s.

You can use Distrobox to install software in Arch, Ubuntu etc containers and "export" commands/launchers to host's shell/DE.

You can use DevPod / Dev Containers for development environments.

They also integrate Homebrew for additional CLI software.

https://universal-blue.org/

Colleagues like so much #AuroraDX ( #Kinoite + #Bluefin with #KDE #Plasma6 ) on my work laptop that they are now interested in moving servers from #Ubuntu to #Fedora #CoreOS

I didn't expect it, "Cloud Native workstations" really are the future.