BEST Distro for Programmers? Fedora Silverblue 30 DAY Review!

Fedora Silverblue is a secure and stable operating system that is worth checking out.

"Silverblue is a variant of Fedora Workstation. It looks, feels and behaves like a regular desktop operating system, and the experience is similar to what you find with using a standard Fedora Workstation.
However, unlike other operating systems, Silverblue is immutable. This means that every installation is identical to every other installation of the same version. The operating system that is on disk is exactly the same from one machine to the next, and it never changes as it is used."

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[snowmean]

While I don't believe that Silverblue is the _future_ of the Linux (considering how many linux ppl enjoy tinkering their OS), I easily can see it in the enterprise environment or for "browsing" machine, where people only need rock solid and stable system for common tasks like browsing the internet, writing text, working with spreadsheets etc. I would consider Silverblue for my parents computer, actually.

[Claude-tjud]

Really love your videos! Concise, precise, always accurate, no fanboy lies. Really the best Linux YouTuber for me.

[ArniesTech]

I think that sysadmins will be glad as every root system is completely untouched. 💪🙏

[SwitchedtoLinux]

I like the idea of it for some applications. I can say it may not work well for me, but for a high-risk scenario this is awesome because it means increased layers of protection against hacks.

[TechHut]

Do you think Silverblue is the best distro for developers?
P.s sorry for this light hiss in the audio and the reupload, had to fix it a bit. 💙

[isleifoterogarcia]

Having installed it three months ago, I am very happy with Silverblue, updates and rebooting is a bit annoying but the stability is rock solid. There is the possibility of rebootless updates but it is in experimental stage. I hope they are implemented soon. I installed on various machines and it worked like charm. For tinkering I use Arch or EndeavourOS. As if it is the future of Linux, could be, for security reasons. For ransom attacks recovery, it could be an advantage. I liked your videos.

[keyboard_g]

I run VSCode from within a toolbx container. Its one line to run the ui app, although I agree they could make it more obvious or automatic.

[GroudFrank]

I'm no longer daily driving Linux but I appreciate videos like these. I really hope this series continues. I appreciate that you spend a month on a distro and test drive it on bare metal rather than in a VM. Like I said, I'm no longer on the Penguin but I still watch your videos because the content you produce is good.

[T.P.]

Any OS that supports container technology properly is a fine dev system for me. So basically any distro, doesn't even need UI. Just starting VS Code locally and remoting to my actual dev system.

[TheLinuxCast]

Very well explained. I've been using Kinoite for about a month now. I haven't yet made a video about it because I don't know if I can explain it right.

[postnick]

Love it - ran it for like 3 months. I went back to Workstation though just because the updates were so slow and I"m also a tinkerer.

[blllk]

Thinking of trying Silverblue for my main OS, considering I don't want to tinker with my Linux operating system, I just want it to work and play my games without Microsoft getting involved in it. Fedora specifically also seems to be a good choice because it provides new but stable packages, a major plus considering I own an Intel Arc card which regularly receives massive improvements through the form of driver updates. I've checked and Steam, Minecraft, Blender, Blockbench, Discord, Modrinth Launcher, and OBS Studio all are available for this immutable OS.

[brandonn.]

Silverblue works pretty well in terms of customization short of using a custom compiled kernel and replacing systemd.

On my daily-driver I was able to get silveblue to use tpm and clevis to boot an encrypted drive on my laptop without password prompt, enable frame buffer compression, enable panel self refresh, and switch from intel's p-state driver to cpufreq so I could schedutil.

Whereas for my gaming rig I was able to get silverblue to do gpu passthrough for a graphics card and usb pci card.

[IndianKD]

When new Nvidia drivers will be inside the silverblue it will be ultimate OS. Install and forget.

[maxarendorff]

30 days...That's a lot longer than I managed to use it lol. I only lasted a couple of days because I found the whole immutable OS thing to be too limiting. Now I'm back on Fedora 36. It's a cool idea but sadly not usable for me at this point.

[andromydous]

I am the type of person who would prefer to be able to install and operate my system/programs without ever touching the terminal, but can if it's needed (setting up gpu pass through on a vm). So, I like the concept. Having said that, I don't think that all Linux distros should go this route. There way too many people who like having the options to tinker under the hood. At the very least, there should be 2 variants so that you can choose between this and a system that gives you more control.

[ensnep]

4:02 You can actually use the command `rpm-ostree ex apply-live` to apply the changes on the running deployment (yeah that's what the snapshots are called for OSTree).

[nomadshiba]

i think most important pros here is the security, control and keeping the system clean

[rhbvkleef]

The "reboot problem" is a lot less significant with the stabilization of apply-live. Many bits of software can quite safely be updated live.

[shiorinyan]

I like the concept, though what worked best for me, was NixOS, partly because of big repos, declarative system configuration, and other stuff like atomic upgrades, rollbacks and zfs just working there.