Vanilla Handbook

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • ublue

    A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.

  • What's interesting about your question is that (and I'm saying this as a Silverblue user) it's a great question, and I'm fascinated by the incredibly successful projects that don't even bother trying to answer it: macOS and chrome OS.

    Substantively, it's a difficult question to answer because there are multiple ways of accomplishing it, if I understand Vanilla correctly. In Silverblue and, I believe, macos, the operating system is a read-only image (probably ChromeOS too, but I don't know that): changing the operating system means dropping a new image on your drive, without messing with the bits that are mutable (/home and /var, in the case of Silverblue. You can layer applications directly on the OS layer in Silverblue, but it's not ideal -- though it's leading to some fascinating projects like ublue (https://ublue.it/), in which you can branch an OS image at github, customize it to your liking, and use github features to continuously update your image so that you have a custom but immutable, auto-updating operating system.

  • vimium

    The hacker's browser.

  • With vimium you hi gU to go to the root of the page. Availlable for FireFox and Chromium based browsers. Content user.

    https://github.com/philc/vimium

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • handbook

    Vanilla OS Handbook. Documentation, guides and other useful stuff for users. (by Vanilla-OS)

  • Apart from navigation-to-root issue, and non-functioning search, this documentation site looks pretty nice. Seems like they're using Jekyll to build it, and the source on Github[1].

    [1]. https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/handbook

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