I’m between distros and looking for a new daily driver for my laptop. What are people daily driving these days? Are there any new cool things to try?

I have been using linux mint recently. I have used nixos and arch in the past. Personally, linux mint uses flatpacks too much for my liking. Although, I might have a warped perspective after using arch. (the aur is crazy big)

  • jack@monero.town
    2·
    1 year ago

    The image is downloaded and staged in the background of the active session. Upon reboot, the session seamlessly defaults to the staged image. For flatpaks, the updates happen immediately and without the need for a reboot.

    That’s great to hear. Maybe I’ll give Silverblue a try

    • thayerEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Sounds good. I don’t think the automatic background updates are enabled by default, at least they weren’t when I last installed it. To enable:

      1. Edit /etc/rpm-ostreed.conf and set AutomaticUpdatePolicy=stage
      2. Reload system service: rpm-ostree reload
      3. Enable the timer daemon: systemctl enable rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer --now

      Also, consider disabling GNOME Software’s management of flatpaks with the following:

      rpm-ostree override remove gnome-software-rpm-ostree

      The flatpaks will continue to be updated by the backend system, but you’ll no longer have to deal with the sluggish frontend UI to keep things up to date.