I wanted The GIMP on my new laptop so tried to use the flatpak manager "Bazaar" that comes with Aurora Linux. This program fails to launch often. It's frequent failures have forced me to learn how to install flatpak software from the command line. Not that this is hard at all, I just didn't know. Live and learn, I guess. I can't wait for the next generation software installer. 🙄 Since I started my Linux adventure I've used tarballs, rpm, apt, and now flatpak.

Yes, I could probably investigate why Bazaar isn't working, but now that I can install software without using it, I'm not sure why I should bother.

#Linux #AuroraLinux

I got energized by a blog post by Jorge Castro, the tireless promotor of Bluefin and all things OCI.
That's how I got busy the last couple of days in setting up Aurorix, my own take on Aurora (the KDE sister of Bluefin).
It's been an incredible lot of fun, and the result is something that works very well for me. Expect more details later on in this journey.
Now, don't worry, Slackware with Mango is superb and Gentoo (after losing it's KDE flavor for me) will be glorious with dwm.
Enough geeking still going on, but making your own automated, container-based, immutable KDE spin rocks and rolls.
#auroralinux #slackware #gentoo

With Aurorix up and running (OCI container with KDE) it's time to start Asterix up also. That's my 'immutable', auto-updating Nix. Although less 'confined' than Aurorix it should be basically the same for the enduser. Looking forward to the comparison.
#auroralinux #nixos

Welcome to Aurorix Saigon, my opinionated take on Aurora KDE, showing a menu and a terminal window with installed cli tools. These CLI tools were installed using a predefined list in Homebrew , as was the Ungoogled Chromium flatpak. An automatically created custom image.This is very cool; further tweaking to follow.
#auroralinux #universalblue

On the automation front it's a bit imperfect the installer shows it's fetching an image, but when booted into Aurora for the 1st time it notifies me my current image is a month old. Ujust update fixes that, but it's an additional 3.4Gb download that imho should've been taken care of during install?
#auroralinux