I have been using Fedora Workstation since a year now. I started by using the Gnome version then tried the KDE but didn’t like it. I have been using awesome wm and i3 for a few months now and have become accustomed the workflow. I read about Silverblue in a few blog posts and wanted to give it a try, but cannot figure out what would be the best way to install i3wm in it.
I know that I should layer i3 but what should I do about the other tools like feh, thunar file manager, etc. and how do I remove the other gnome packages from the core image. Basically I want to build a custom version of Silverblue with i3, the way we can do with Fedora Everything installs.
You cant remove the packages from the core image. You can however create a layer that removes the package by using rpm-ostree remove package. Since the only upside is that the packages are hidden it might not be worth the time.