Hello all, I’ve been distro hopping a lot lately and have a long term goal of settling on one distro for the family laptops.

Currently it’s a smattering of linux distro’s and some M$ across all the systems in the house.

In short the fam has had a pretty negative reaction to Gnome for all the usual reasons, so there is a kubuntu instance, Nobara, but the KDE version, Manjaro etc… I kind of want to give Fedora a stint on my laptop and noticed the Fedora spins project and was wondering if anyone has played around with it at all?

I spun up the KDE version in a VM alongside the default Fedora and noticed it’s running a newer kernel than the default, which is interesting…

Is it an equal partner in update cycles?

  • Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    If you want a KDE Fedora powered experience I definitely have to suggest Universal Blue Kinoite-main or Bazzite-Desktop. 🤟

    Universal Blue project is OCI RPM OSTREE container native, atomic Fedora.

    Silverblue/Kinoite/Serica/Onyx, but with extra batteries+codecs+hardware acceleration out of the box.

    “Think Chromebook easy, but Fedora.”

    Bazzite is pretty amazing 🎮:

    Project Bluefin for Developers 🦖:

    If you update your normal Fedora system, they should all be running the same kernel.

    Sometimes the installers can be stale…you can try installing ISOs from the net installer or nightlies:

    Rather… I tried to find links to share… But everything looks to be rawhide… 😕

    On atomic side, ublu automatically updates the system image, any layered RPMs as well as flatpaks and other containers/Docker/Podman/Distrobox.

    Like Steam OS, if you want to enable -testing channel for updates on Ublu, you can make it more bleeding edge.

    • juli@programming.dev
      0·
      9 months ago

      Why ublue over fedora’s images? You won’t have fedoras signatures anymore. You can install the same stuff on official images

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Ya, but you’re overlaying all that stuff, codecs, nvidia, etc. ublue works out of the box and updates are quicker due to not having to re-overlay everything. It’s just less friction. Also it comes with automatic updates enabled which is really nice (and safe in an immutable, intrinsically rollbackable environment)