Silverblue

Automated setup https://universal-blue.org/

You get all the benefits of using containers Separates system level packages from applications.

System Level

  • Desktop, kernel?
  • Layering
    • Apps at system level because containers aren’t as developed yet
    • Locks to the fedora version you are on

Layered package examples

- gnome shell extensions
- distrobox

Uses rpm-ostree? https://coreos.github.io/rpm-ostree/administrator-handbook/

Flatpacks

Remove fedora flatpack stuff and use flathub repos instead https://flatpak.org/setup/Fedora

Systemd unit for automatic flatpack updates

Update every 4 hours to mirror ubuntu

flatseal adjust permissions of flatpacks

check out apps.gnome.org

Rebase into Universal Blue

Rebase onto the “unsigned” image then reboot: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:39 and

Then the signed image and reboot: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:39

Then do we you do after install, open the app store and install stuff via GUI or we

just

have a .justfile to install all flatpak/ homebrew packages https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/introduction-to-just/42 https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_1.html

My justfile

import "/usr/share/ublue-os/justfile"  
# You can add your own commands here! For documentation, see: [https://ublue.it/guide/just/](https://ublue.it/guide/just/)  
  
first-install:  
    flatpak install \  
      flathub com.bitwarden.desktop \  
      flathub com.brave.Browser \  
      flathub com.discordapp.Discord \  
      flathub net.cozic.joplin_desktop \  
      flathub org.gimp.GIMP \  
      flathub org.gnome.Snapshot \  
      flathub org.libreoffice.LibreOffice \  
      flathub org.remmina.Remmina \  
      flathub com.termius.Termius \  
      flathub net.devolutions.RDM \  
      flathub com.slack.Slack \  
      flathub org.keepassxc.KeePassXC \  
      flathub md.obsidian.Obsidian \  
      flathub com.calibre_ebook.calibre \  
      flathub com.logseq.Logseq \  
      flathub org.mozilla.Thunderbird \  
      flathub us.zoom.Zoom \  
      flathub org.wireshark.Wireshark \  
      flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud \  
      flathub com.google.Chrome  
  
    brew install \  
      ansible \  
      chezmoi \  
      neovim  \      
      onedrive \  
      wireguard-tools

Set up github dotfiles repo

Install chezmoi and initialize: chezmoi init

Sync with Chezmoi: https://www.chezmoi.io/quick-start/

Add dotfiles chezmoi add ~/.bashrc

Edit a dotfile chezmoi edit ~/.bashrc

See changes chezmoi diff

Apply changes chezmoi -v apply

to sync chezmoi with git:

chezmoi cd
git remote add origin https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git 
$ git push -u origin main 
$ exit

For subsequent git pushes:

git commit -a -m "commit" && git push

From a second machine:

Install all dotfiles with a single command: chezmoi init --apply https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git

If you use GitHub and your dotfiles repo is called dotfiles then this can be shortened to: $ chezmoi init --apply $GITHUB_USERNAME

See a list of full commands: chezmoi help

Or you can initialize and choose what you want: chezmoi init https://github.com/$GITHUB_USERNAME/dotfiles.git

See what changes are awaiting: chezmoi diff

Apply changes: chezmoi apply -v

can also edit a file before applying: chezmoi edit $FILE

Or merge the current file with new file: chezmoi merge $FILE

From any machine, you can pull and apply changes from your repo: chezmoi update -v

Add the justfile: chezmoi add .justfile

Install Connect Tunnel

Download from website Install java rpm-ostree install java

Runn the connect tunnel install script

Commands located in /var/usrlocal/Aventail must be ran as root `sudo ./startctui.sh