tuigreet VS filverblue

Check out https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet if you want a terminal based display manager.

Many PRs have been opened to add Ly to the repos, they've all been rejected because of the submodule thing and because it's had some severe technical issues. I really don't understand this subreddit's obsession with that specific greeter. If you want something in the repos that provides an almost identical interface, use greetd + tuigreet.

i like greetd using tuigreet

Relevant Github issue.

However, from what I understand, I think that setxkbmap only sets the layout after starting Xorg. Infact when I first boot the computer and get to my display manager tuigreet (which is a TUI application that runsi in a tty), I have to type my credentials in QWERTY because of course Xorg has not started yet.

I like it because it just works. Install the packages, set greetd to use tuigreet, enable the greetd service, and you're done. Also subjectively I like the UI better.

https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet

Knowing the alternative tuigreet (https://github.com/apognu/tuigreet), there won't be much of a difference between a video and the given screenshot. You have a prompt, you enter username and password and your Wayland compositor/X session starts up.

Fedora has an existing look of being... too easy/friendly/noobish? It's not necessarily the trendy "at your own risk" distro others choose. However, I completely feel Fedora is going to be the strongest distros in the mix in the next decade. ostree, docker-image-based, read-only images are going to be The Thing (tm). I'm hoping they take CoreOS and continue it as a server-oriented minimal distro, and use it as a base layer for the desktop-oriented ones like Silverblue.

I wish I could articulate this better, but this is how 1 person is creating their own customized version of Fedora Silverblue - with Github workflows:

https://github.com/pkulak/filverblue/blob/main/.github/workf...

I can just rebase off of that image and try it out like a git remote branch.

Add in eventual plans for dm-verity and such, and Fedora's distros (kinoite, silverblue, (sigacea?)) are going to be leaders. Much more dependable and predictable.

Silverblue is pretty great. But it's really been taken to another level in the last few months since it started allowing you to _boot_ from a container image. That means, you can have some automated container build somewhere that you point rpm-ostree too which gets automatically pulled down to all your machines. It's like building your own distro, but without any of the work. Here's mine, for example:

https://github.com/pkulak/filverblue/

And then, of course, I _also_ have an automated Arch build that I use with Distrobox on top of my custom Silverblue build. I get the stability of an immutable OS layer with the easy installs and package availability of Arch.