@thelinuxcast It won’t. You install your “extras” as overlays, and they will be preserved and upgraded. As Jorge said, it’s just about keeping this “extras” list short so you don’t lose the benefits of the concept. My rule is “overlay what needs to be there at boot time”, ie all the WM and X11 stuff.
@thelinuxcast There was a presentation on osc23 about creating a sway (or was it i3?) environment on top of openSUSE microOs. It should be up any day now.
@thelinuxcast it will be layered on the new image(if installed through rpm-ostree). Reboot and choose the new image to boot. I layered Davinci Resolve, Nvidia driver and Chrome. Though you can use flatpak version of Davinci Resolve and Chrome.
@thelinuxcast you need to build it yourself. Google flatpak-resolve. Main Editor works. Other tools like Blackmagic RAW player, Speed tester may not work.
@thelinuxcast You can layer what you need and it will persist over reboots, the tough part is figuring out that list of packages.
Which is why people make different images for the lower level stuff like that, you could rebase to a sericea image (which is sway). You can always rebase back or between different ones.
@jorge Hey Jorge, thanks for that. I really don't want to use wayland, but I may do it anyways.
Is there, do you know, an idiot's guide to making an image (I assume something like ublue would be a good option for something like this)? I searched on YouTube and couldn't find one. I read the documentation and while I probably could figure it out, a for dunmies thing would be great. I'll keep searching for that.
@jorge Thanks for the offer, Jorge. You're awesome.
But, I think I'd like to go ahead and try it on my own first. Maybe I will learn something along the way. Then I may be an annoying pest and ask you 10 bagillion questions. (I'll try not to be that guy, lol)
That guide, with some ups and downs, enabled me to churn out 4 immutable images, based on Ublue in the last week. Kinoite-saigon, Sericea-saigon and Silverblue+Cinnamon. I've added and removed sw from the images itself and made some new ones, with Sericea enabling a Copr repo with a special gtk shell for Sway by @nwgpiotr It was fun to learn.
@thelinuxcast@nwgpiotr the ups and downs indeed. Still don't know anything about anything, including git 👻 as an example: GitHub.com/sericea-saigon/sericea-saigon
@thelinuxcast you honestly can't really run a wm on an immutable distro, unless it's Nixos which is the exception but anything else doesn't really allow for it.
@thelegendlinux I mean, technically I am running it. I have it installed and it's working just fine. I just don't know if it would stay that way. I'm assuming not. But then why bother with installing anything with rpm-ostree? I don't get it.
@thelinuxcast this is kind of dependent on the distro for example vanilla os uses the ab root scheme for installing packages to the immutable fs which means that things should stay the same or Nixos which references the configuration.nix but for silverblue I don't think it has a way to save the packages installed before an update. os-tree is also git based so their might be a way to persist packages across images that I am not aware of but idk.
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