boxkit VS images

https://universal-blue.org

Using the Bazzite image has replaced Windows for me. Basically everything works.

There are a slew of images built on Fedora Silverblue and a lot of them are very interesting. The ability to rebase in and out of base images safely and atomically is really powerful and liberating. If you haven’t tried an “immutable” distribution, I would highly recommend it. It really does feel like the most logical way to run Linux with zero fuss and maximum flexibility and safety,

https://universal-blue.org/

There isn't something completely like that, but Fedora Silverblue comes really close (and [Universal Blue](https://universal-blue.org/) pushes it slightly closer)

Once installed run the Universal Blue rebase script to make the Kinoiite OS more user friendly. (https://universal-blue.org/)

I'm thinking about Silverblue and Kenoite. Especially, I'm looking at the Universal Blue project. UBlue, because creating your ISO is dead simple because it starts from an OCI image declaration (docker compose).

I'm on a https://universal-blue.org/ -based "custom image" of Fedora Silverblue and I love it. In my image, I ship some essentials software and other things that are just easy to have in there like fonts, plus a script for installing gnome extensions. Then I have a Nix home-manager -based shell configuration containing some common developer tools as well. The bulk of the (GUI) software I use comes as Flatpaks, and my development environment is a distrobox arch container.

I've set all updates to be automatic and almost never have to worry about them. I am on the :latest tag and my computer updates between major versions automatically, and I haven't had any breakage yet. I feel pretty confident in the stability of my system and feel like were the disk to corrupt, I could get back up and running with the exact same setup very quickly.

Hi! I worked on this with some friends over the past two years or so (we had to work on the generic tooling first: https://universal-blue.org/)

I'm happy to answer questions you might have! Thanks for checking it out! (I'll be at KubeCon Chicago with stickers if you want the live demo on a Framework 13)

This is actually run my computer, with a fedora-silverblue based image but my CLI is running alpine images.

So I made a little kit so anyone can do this on any linux so you can try all the cool stuff in there without the downsides of running a less popular configuration on the bare metal.

And since it's Alpine it's always a fast download vs. a heavier container.

https://github.com/ublue-os/boxkit

I'm using these toolbx-images to have an Arch and Debian containers, but I can't find their files from the host OS (Silverblue).

Fedora only offers Fedora and RHEL images, so if you want to run say Ubuntu in a toolbox, you can use the images from quay.io as discussed here. If you're as security paranoid as I am, you can also install a local Docker Registry (running in podman) and build your own images from the Containerfiles in that repo, but this comment is already long, so not today.

Then if someone wanted to actually do this in Fedora and make a more toolbox focused image we'd have some useful feedback to give them. Also there are community maintained base images if you want to explore: https://github.com/toolbx-images/images

But toolbx didn't merge pr's to support other distros like Arch and relied on it's users to write a Containerfile for other distros (not difficult, but unnecessary). Now we have the community-maintained https://github.com/toolbx-images/images which imo should have been part of toolbx in the first place.