#kinoite — Public Fediverse posts
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I recently did a "soft" distro switch from #fedora workstation to #kinoite, with a specific variant called #bazzite.
I already use containers all the time in my day job, so the Atomic desktop approach makes a ton of sense to me. I also recently switched from a Macbook Pro over to an #asus #zephyrus G16, so Bazzite is an especially good fit for that.
It's taken me a few days to get my head around the general approach for installing things, as it doesn't use dnf directly. But I think this morning, I finally "got it", and I am now fully on the atomic train:
For daily driving tasks, you can do everything you need to do with a combo of flatpak, brew, and Distrobox. (And automate my whole set of preferences with #ansible of course)
...which is actually pretty damn awesome.For hardware related tasks, Bazzite ships with an extremely useful `ujust` CLI that handles a very sensible set of the essentials.
There's a few very minor tradeoffs. Example: #1password browser extension doesn't directly interface with the desktop app anymore due to the sandboxing. (Hopefully there's a fix for that as this approach to #linux matures)
All in all though, I think the Kinoite branch of Fedora might be my new distro home base.
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So…at first there was a little bit of friction, but now that I’ve been reading up on #fedora #Kinoite Im getting the hang of the differences between it and workstation. I installed #bazzite on my #asus #Zephyrus and I think I might actually end up preferring this. I’m gonna give it more time before I give a full recommendation…but so far, very cool.