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I continue to have a hard time with it. I desperately want to like it but feel like it doesn’t handle laptop Nvidia right. I keep getting boot to black screen on KDE and have to rfkill unblock on install and just a host of issues I can’t seem to ever nail down. Might have to try again since switcherooctl, but there are some rough edges for me.
Love MicroOS for server though. Rock solid.
Hey, may I ask how has it been MicroOS for you? I’m interested in using it for my small server and self-hosting, but I mostly use containers with Docker and I’ve seen that MicroOS comes with Podman by default.
Podman is good, you should try it.
Most docker’s commands can be replaced by podman’s.
Will do, thanks!. Have you used something like Docker Compose? I didn’t have a lot of time before, but I’m still researching and I don’t get what is the “standardized” way of dealing with composed containers
I have never used Podman Compose but it exists. I guess it’s really similar to docker compose.
With podman you can use “Quadlets”, which are systemd files allowing the services to integrate very well with the system (you can use journalctl to see the logs of a container).
Podman supports building, and starting containers (and creating vol‐ umes) via systemd by using a systemd generator. These files are read during boot (and when systemctl daemon-reload is run) and generate cor‐ responding regular systemd service unit files. Both system and user systemd units are supported. All options and tables available in stan‐ dard systemd unit files are supported. For example, options defined in the [Service] table and [Install] tables pass directly to systemd and are handled by it. See systemd.unit(5) man page for more information. The Podman generator reads the search paths above and reads files with the extensions .container .volume, .network, .build, .pod and .kube, and for each file generates a similarly named .service file.I’ve been reading about them, thank you! I’ll test them in a VM soon, I find it weird to use systemd, but I guess if it works… I hope I get a new PC this month so I can transition distros and storage easily.
I ended up installing docker. Didn’t want to make a bunch of systemd files. It automatically updates each day and has required almost no maintenance at all. It’s a little strange, but can work great.
I already use Docker, but in rootless mode, which works kind of weird. I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed, but I like to go by example and implement all the best practices and zero trust in my own devices, since I’m studying cybersecurity:)
For nvidia hardware, use nvidia images of Aurora/Bluefin (or Bazzite if you want gaming out of the box). All the OSes I mentioned are based on Fedora Atomic and offer image options for nvidia proprietary drivers. They even signing the kernel drivers, so you can use Secure Boot.
I have distro hopped my dang brains out with everything under the sun. I’m back to Mint. It works without being an absolute pain and is boring as watching paint dry, which is the point of an OS. I just use it to compute, work, code, and game. it boots and updates eventually.
Yes I encountered that when I used Tumbleweed on my laptop, the solution was to run “sudo prime-select boot offload”. It set up my laptop to use iGPU for desktop environment and NV offload for gaming. I made it part of my update script. No idea why that wasn’t handled better.
But generally I’m done with rolling distros, I now use an Ubuntu derivative that still keeps kernel and mesa quite up to date, I enjoy a stable environment.
openSUSE is the GOAT for several reasons, but by far my favorite reason is Zypper.
I’m daily driving it for ~3 years and I only started yast once to see why everyone praises it so much and second time when I actually needed something (don’t even know if I suceeded or failed).
Snapper on the other hand… That is a bit I praise the most! I still don’t get it why it’s not default for more distros…
