Nice overview of Fedora Silverblue and it’s push towards Fedora 40, giving a good overview of the ideas and advantages of this “atomic” approach we’re all fans of!
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Indeed. Fedora Silverblue really feels different and one gets the feeling that there is an enormous value by “gently” inducing the user to install applications in their own unique way without worrying about compromising the integrity of the core operating system.
I switched from Ubuntu 22.04 to Silverblue few weeks ago and Linux is not boring anymore. I opted for one of its derivatives, Bluefin-DX, with added superpowers. It is a delight discovering new ways of installing applications, CLI or GUI. I have counted so far eleven different ways of installations. Flatpak is just one of them. The article doesn’t make justice to the flexible nature of Fedora Silverblue. We have flatpak, appimage, brew, distrobox, docker, podman, toolbox, nix, LXC, ujust, and ostree layering.
I actually found uBlue while trying to see if I could make Silverblue work for me. My takeaway is that I could but after finding Aurora I can have it done for me. I actually have a secondary install on a macbook to test my “worst case scenario” of rpmfusion + broadcom-wl + distrobox being layered to experiment with, but it’s using Bluefin totally fine on another drive.
In a way things went from really exciting to really boring when my system just worked. I just did the Aurora 39-40 upgrade a few minutes ago and was underwhemed, but I’m running Plasma 6 now.
I also have a tendency to move on when I find a bunch of warts, but they just aren’t showing up right now.
Completely agree - and there is no way I could tell you how many desktops and distros I’ve tried over the years, but I’ve been doing this since 1998 when my friend showed me KDE 1.0 - I assume on Red Hat - when I bought a Red Hat book (with the CD) and got started. Having a desktop that just works, with this much thought and polish built-in is what I’ve been searching for. Like you s I tried Silverblue last year and mostly stuck with it until I found bluefin-dx, and now it feels like I’m home. I’m happy to be bored, now I can do other things in Linux past configuring my desktop! Additionally I’ve installed bluefin 40 on a 12 year old laptop and gave it to a friend who couldn’t believe how responsive it felt vs the old install that was on it prior. Great times!
Hi.
Being a 20+ years user of the Debian brew, I can hardly say it is true for everybody. I came to Fedora through Bazzite and feel very uncomfortable. It could come with time but the small exposure I had gave problems I do not encounter normally, like Firefox not storing and retrieving password. It may not be true for the regular Fedora version. It looks good, , feels good but a little alien 
No flame war intended just difficult to adjust.
Regards.