Chromium works as a Chrome replacement, as you already know. SoftMaker can be largely replaced with LibreOffice; I brought up the idea of a Flatpak on the forums but they just said they’d forward it to the devs.
Remember that Silverblue is still technically in a “beta” of sorts; it works well, but there are still some rough edges. I’ve found that pretty much every issue can be worked around with just a bit of elbow grease.
I have installed it on my Intel NUC for testing. Maybe I will keep it for a while and play a little bit around to see what the pro and cons are compared with the standard Fedora distro.
Yeah, this generally isn’t the best idea… For a lot of things, you can try fedora-toolbox. For this, you’d be better off installing to /usr/local (which isn’t read-only) or trying to make an rpm of it.
Yesterday I noticed that Cisco Spark (Webex) is not working with Chromium. It cannot access my webcam correctly. There is a warning message “Could not aquire local media. Please check your settings”. After this the webcam hangs and is not accessble any more (I tested with “cheese” and “guvcview”). I had to replug the device.
In order to have easy installation of “the real” Chrome I wrote an installation script to make updates as easy as possbile.
Latex I run in a container because it tries to install stuff into /usr/share which is impossible of course.
The Totem media player is crashing even at startup if you use the flatpak - so I have opened another bug
If you boulght the DVD player of Fluendo which uses CodeMeter as software protection you will problably notice that OnePlay does not start because it cannot read you license. The reason is that CodeMeter does not run on Silverblue for some reason - sofar I could not figure out why and have contacted the CodeMeter guys.
The container concept is still not quite clear to me - you don’t have systemd or wayland there - so except of some command line tools I am quite unsure how to use it. CodeMeter for example is running inside a container if you remove the systemd stuff on top of it.
There’s a way to run LaTeX (TeXLive) in your home directory, at least in the R / RStudio world - TinyTeX (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tinytex/index.html). However, R in Fedora brings in enough LaTeX as a dependency that TinyTeX doesn’t work. The workaround is to install R from source, which isn’t very hard. Of course, running R, RStudio Server and LaTeX in a container is also easy.
Yes - I have tried it. But I could not find what is called “Advanced” in KeePassXC. Under this menu you find your stored attachments. So it seems to me that Password Safe is only a replacement for KeePassXC if you don’t have stored attachements. I have put a note to the #keepassgtk:disroot.org channel.
Meanwhile I have deinstalled it and reinstalled KeePassXC as rpm package. I thought this flatpak should give more stability and distro independency - but now I found two cases (Totem, KeePassXC) where applications are unusable.
