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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • If I understand it correctly, layering an application is no more dangerous than a regular install on a non atomic os. In other words, every piece of software you have installed on normal fedora desktop is not containerized, if it’s software you were going to install anyways, layering it is the same as before (albeit significantly slower than install and update).

    But that means that you get great benefits because 99% of your software packages are properly containerized






  • I have an atomic variant of fedora 40 (Aurora) and it just works on an Intel CPU with integrated graphics. I have a USB c dongle with HDMI out and it just works when I plug it in.

    I also tried it on my steam deck dock the other day and it worked without issue.












  • Before jumping to a whole new os, there’s a few easy things you can do.

    FUTO keyboard instead of gboard

    Install F-Droid app store to replace Google apps with foss versions: aegis, amaze, fossify gallery, grayjay, kvaesitso etc

    Obtainium can pull lots of apps straight from github: Firefox, wireguard, OSS document scanner etc

    Use DDG or something instead of Google search

    These are the easiest things you can do.

    After that there is self hosting things on your own server like immich for Google photos, Seafile for Google Drive backups etc

    Just because you can’t replace everything does mean you can slowly chip away at it and greatly reduce the amount of data you are sharing with Google

    The above steps make a huge difference in their own even without fully changing the os. Then one day when you are ready the option to change OS to graphene will still be there and you will already be used to your FOSS apps