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zhenbo_endle, to linux in As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?

“just browse the internet” doesn’t indicate that you don’t need a powerful computer in 2023. Modern browsers are really heavy - and rendering websites are much more complex now.

Unless you’re really frugal about your PC budget, I think it’s definitely “to-go” for 32G

zhenbo_endle, to linux in Is the Windows Subsystem for Linux worth it?

I had been using WSL2 for about one year. The experience was terrible compared to a Linux host. (Sadly I can’t change the system on my work laptop). However, it was much better than Cygwin, msys2 and powershell - based on my experience.

If your host OS is windows and you’re interested in Linux, I think WSL2 is a good way to have a try

zhenbo_endle, to linux in Wanting to improve my Linux skills after 17 months of daily driving Linux
  • Find an open-source software that you’re interested in, but your main distro doesn’t provide it in the official repo. Be a packager for this software.
  • Open your distro’s wiki, rewrite (or contribute, if already good enough) a page or section.
  • Try the bleeding-edge version (or very-early testing) of your favourite distro, and submit some test results, regarding to your hardware.

IMHO these tasks are interesting, could learn a lot from these tasks, and other linux users could benefit from these work

zhenbo_endle, to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

Also: I think rpm-ostree only supports rpm-based packages, tho; right?

Can I install .deb software too?

I don’t think rpm-ostree could support .deb softwares, just like dnf/yum can’t support deb packages.

Can you share your use case for trying to install a deb package in Fedora? I’m just curious.

And is there any kind of system-as-a-config-file kind of solution available like in NixOS or blendOS?

Good question. I only have a few computers, so I had never considered about it.

zhenbo_endle, to linux in Comparison between NixOS vs blendOS vs Vanilla OS: what to pick and why?

While I’ve looked into Fedora Silverblue, that distro is limited to only install Flatpaks, which is fine for “apps”, but seems to be more of a problem with managing system- and CLI tools.

No. Your understanding to Fedora Silverblue is wrong. I can just run rpm-ostree install package.name in Silverblue, like other Fedora spins. The small disadvantage is that I need to reboot to apply this update. (re-construct)

but doesn’t that result in new A/B snapshots, or something like that?

Well, you can call it snapshots, but there is no need to think about it. In most cases, the system points to the newest snapshot (deployment 0). If a rollback is needed, I can pin to the older deployments. When a major change is to be applied (Like bump Fedora version), I’d manually mark the current deployment as dont-auto-delete.

Sure, but I’d like to have a more seamless experience, i.e. not having to open/start any “containers” or something like that.

I never used toolbox in my Fedora Silverblue system. I feel that I can’t tell the difference between using Silverblue and the default Fedora spin

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