Fedora ProjectSep 3, 2024

Cool coverage from How-To Geek on their experience with Fedora Silverblue!

➡️ https://www.howtogeek.com/why-ive-gone-all-in-on-fedora-silverblue/

Do you use Silverblue or one of the other Fedora Atomic Desktops? How do you agree or disagree with their points?

#Fedora #Silverblue #FedoraAtomic #Linux #OpenSource

Why I've Gone All In on Fedora Silverblue

There's more to like here than just those two (admitedly awesome) colors.

How-To Geek
Show threadSi  (he/him)

@fedora

Full ACK for:

“Neither of those names is immediately intuitive”

What keeps me from switching to Silverblue is Firefox and KeePassXC not working together in Flatpak sandboxes.

And having to install CLI tools like bpytop in the toolbox environment.

Sep 4, 2024 at 12:20amWeb
Show threadFedora ProjectSep 4, 2024
@sihaha There are definitely areas that don't match the experience on mainline Fedora. Thank you for your feedback!
Show threadFluchtkapselSep 4, 2024

@sihaha @fedora FWIW Firefox in Silverblue is native and works with flatpak'ed KeePassXC but comes without extended codecs. These codecs are in the flatpak version which doesn't work with KeePassXC, though.

In Silverblue I added some repo and installed ffmpeg with all codecs. Bazzite, though, comes with the flatpak'ed Firefox.

I hope for a solution to this soon, too. Canonical provided a flatpak portal for web extensions in 2022 or so but it's still in discussion limbo. AFAIU the relevant group aims for a proper solution and wants to make it right. I'd really like to use other flatpak'ed browsers with KeePassXC.

Show threadToken Sane PersonSep 4, 2024
@sihaha @fedora And more generally, sandboxed apps in Flatpak can't invoke each other. E.g. Thunderbird can't open a document with Libre Office. You have to save the attachment and then go open the file you saved.
Show threadSi  (he/him)Sep 4, 2024

@tokensane @fedora

We did talk flatpaks, not snaps. ;-)

Show threadToken Sane PersonSep 4, 2024
@sihaha @fedora oh yeah. Edited.