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You could have been a little clearer, but the main communication problem is that I didn't know that was a problem that could exist so it was easy to not follow. After a few minutes of confused web searching, I found https://fedoramagazine.org/thunderbolt-how-to-use-keyboard-during-boot… which appears to describe the problem and some solutions (that don't involve homed, not least because this article predates it). AIUI, the problem is that you have to log in so you can approve the keyboard; that might be a pain point with an encrypted root (albeit it looks solvable), but if it works with homed I struggle to believe that it wouldn't work with any other encrypted home setup. Mostly because that part of homed is mostly a thin wrapper of code and convention over existing stuff.

> In windows, I can just shut the lid and not worry about it, because it will sleep first, and eventually hibernate. Ubuntu would just sleep until the battery dies. It's really funny because this is one of the things I absolutely do not like about Windows. I absolutely hate it that I put the computer to sleep and when I come back the next day it has hibernated. That said, I agree that hibernation has always been finicky on Linux, however, I would say Ubuntu is not the best distro for this use case. I have been using Fedora and they even publish official guides for it[0] that's how seriously they take it. 0: https://fedoramagazine.org/update-on-hibernation-in-fedora-workstation…

I think everyone, one way or another, will always love to return “home” to their first graphical Linux environment :) For me, it’s the look of Fedora Core 1/Red Hat of the same period. https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screenshot_fedor…

I would highly recommend this also,- but firstly you need to understand how it fits into an organisational system. I founds this YouTube very informative as to how [all these things hang together](https://youtu.be/cUQcNi_obIc?si=HtZ9iLc76KF2iB2L). [This is perhaps relevant for passkeys](https://fedoramagazine.org/fido2-for-centrally-managed-users/) Alternatively you can go down the OIDC or SAML paths (generally the path of a developer) While I've worked with keycloak I've always found the [Curity's resources](https://curity.io/resources/openid-connect/) for understanding OIDC core and extensions very good. The order in which you learn these things isn't really important but they're both important (but really depends on your problem domain)

While this may make Flathub unsuitable for you, there are other Flatpak repos. Fedora and PureOS each offer their own Flatpak repos, which presumably follow those distros' security policies, so they may be more useful than Flathub for some people. => https://fedoramagazine.org/an-introduction-to-fedora-flatpaks/ => https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-flatpaks-on-pureos/

A cooler use for this is with Meta Quest VR headsets. Pair a keyboard and mouse to it, side-load productivity apps and you have literal floating freeform windows that only you can see (wider customization availability and privacy). Termux should work perfectly word-for-word from that guide on Quest 2. My favorite distro also has similar notes: https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-install-and-update-fedora-linux-on-a…

Precisely. First when I wanted to try this, there is absolutely no documentation other than links to community presets. Even till today getting Noise Reduction correctly working is trivial without proper documentation. History about it: https://fedoramagazine.org/helvum-and-easyeffects-two-great-applicatio… https://fedoramagazine.org/tune-up-your-sound-with-pulseeffects-speake…

people on linux wait for updates? Yes, Fedora downloads packages first and then reboots the machine to perform the actual updates and then reboots again into the updated system [1]. You can still run dnf update manually, but the recommended path is the former one. Why? Because in contrast to what many commenters say here, in-place updates of Linux systems can go wrong. Apparently, Fedora have encountered this often enough that they they have started doing 'offline updates'. (The proper solution, which Silverblue/Fedora IoT/Fedora coreOS/NixOS/GUIX do is to make system updates atomic with roll-back.) [1] https://fedoramagazine.org/offline-updates-and-fedora-35/

It works great, especially with Windows 11 where you can run X11/Wayland apps perfectly. Fedora isn't packaged for WSL2 at the moment but https://fedoramagazine.org/wsl-fedora-33 is a good way to do it - I use Arch Linux via this method and it works great. The only difference between this article and today, instead of using that Powershell command to set your default user on login, use /etc/wsl.conf (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config#user-settings)

Beside the Dell XPS Developer Edition (that you already mentioned) I would consider the following: - Lenovo laptops with Fedora preinstalled[1] - Clevo and its HW customers: System76 and Tuxedo being the most notable ones (I think) - Purism Librem 14 - Framework modular laptop[2] [1] https://fedoramagazine.org/lenovo-fedora-now-available/ [2] https://frame.work/

I tried following this article https://fedoramagazine.org/butterfly-backup/ which talks about an incremental backup tool. Really intuitive! Try it!

Okay...so? Lenovo also announced they're going to certify some laptops for Fedora as well: https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/ If you're suggesting that we all need to rally behind everything Canonical does because Ubuntu has the best shot of propelling Linux into the mainstream, I would say that's all the more reason to hold them accountable for decisions that the Linux community finds unpopular. Many don't like snaps. Don't force snaps on us through duplicitous means like the chromium installer. Why is that bad for open source?

Manjaro i3 has a few good ideas but had I started using i3wm through that, I'd probably have been turned off it. It's just not my cup of tea. Fedora Magazine has a pretty decent guide for setting up i3 to a functional state and I can recommend it: https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-i3-window-manager/

Yes, and I think we're already seeing that in the general trend of recent linux work toward atomic updates. [bootc](https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/24/bootc-getting-starte… based images are getting a ton of traction. [universal blue](https://universal-blue.org/) is probably a better brochure example of how bootc can make systems more resilient without needing to move to declarative nix for the entire system like you do in NixOS. Every "upgrade" is a container deployment, and you can roll back or forward to new images at any time. Parts of the filesystem aren't writeable (which pisses people off who don't understand the benefit) but the advantages for security (isolating more stuff to user space by necessity) and stability (wedged upgrades are almost always recoverable) are totally worth it. On the user side, I could easily see [systemd-homed](https://fedoramagazine.org/unlocking-the-future-of-user-management-wit… evolving into a system that allows snapshotting/roll forward/roll back on encrypted backups of your home dir that can be mounted using systemd-homed to interface with the system for UID/GID etc. These are just two projects that I happen to be interested in at the moment - there's a pretty big groundswell in Linux atm toward a model that resembles (and honestly even exceeds) what NixOS does in terms of recoverability on upgrade.

This is macho-computing bullshit, the same as the 1980s "it's a toy unless it's a command line". For most users, SIP increases ownership and control. Chrome can no longer make your Mac unbootable.[0] Journalists and human rights activists can be slightly less afraid of rootkits that can put their lives at risk. Teenagers can worry less about RATs that access their webcams and blackmail them. Companies can deploy these machines with greater confidence that trade secrets won't be stolen. There's a reason Microsoft, Apple, and even Fedora[1] are all moving in the same direction. Most of the time, modifying system binaries is not done in users' interest: it's either malware, or it's "legitimate" large software vendors who couldn't write proper code at gunpoint, yet feel entitled to take over your kernel, make it unstable and increase its attack surface (look at Windows antivirus makers in the '90s and early '00s. Just look at how ISVs lobby against these security measures: [2]). [0]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/no-it-wasnt-a-v… [1]: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection#Criticisms

There's a guide! It's here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/join/ (or: https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-contribute-to-fedora/) Personally I feel a good way to get involved is to test updates in bodhi for those packages you care about, or to take part in the process that happens around release time where we go through several freeze cycles and have 'blocker bugs' that need their fixes to be validated: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process

Related announcement post: Fedora Linux 44 https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934883)

Yes, the new Fedora installer, https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-installer-redesign/

Asahi also has the 42 Beta available today: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-asahi-remix-42-beta/ Notably with FEX support for running x86 binaries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FEX

The Fedora Project (Linux) is switching to this, FWIW https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-deci…

Other Fedora 41 spins are released too, here are the notes for the GNOME ("default") version: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-41/

A recent Linux Unplugged episode went into how one can use the TPM to set up a secure and trusted chain of trust for the booting process on Linux [0] using Clevis [1], very interesting! [0] https://linuxunplugged.com/572 [1] https://fedoramagazine.org/automatically-decrypt-your-disk-using-tpm2/

The "new" way of doing this would be using systemd-cryptenroll [0]. I did this recently on Ubuntu 24.04. I actually tried the default LUKS+TPM shipped with Ubuntu 24.04 at first [1], but it was a bit disappointing because it locks you into using snap-based kernels. This means you cannot install custom DKMS modules (which I needed). Although Clevis is very interesting software (you can even unlock based on some other computer in your network [2]), it's not absolutely required anymore for LUKS+TPM. [0] https://fedoramagazine.org/use-systemd-cryptenroll-with-fido-u2f-or-tp… [1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption-is-coming-to-u… [2] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/ht…

Few more details over on: https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-asahi-remix-39/

Because of the way the layer system works. You can read Fedora Magazine's article about the technology to get a better grasp. https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/

In case you aren't aware you can always build your own Fedora WSL install, just not offically from the store. It's definitely not as simple as installing an app from the store but it's not the hardest thing to do, definitely scriptable. https://fedoramagazine.org/wsl-fedora-33/ is a bit old but the steps are still pretty up to date, there are also other guides out there.

Silverblue is super cool, although this page doesn't explain what is cool about it. This article helps explain. https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-silverblue/

I found this to be useful as somebody new to containers in general. It's about building from scratch using buildah. https://fedoramagazine.org/build-smaller-containers/

Fedora Magazine has more info on what are the new features in this release: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-35-workstation/ And also about the differend spins that are available for download. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35/

Release notes: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35/ See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081329