Neat. I'll have to check this out as well. Thanks!
paequ2
joined 3 months ago
One thing I'm doing differently in Arch this time is I'm trying out installing as many things as possible as flatpaks. I've successfully ignored them until now. Surprisingly, a lot of my apps are already packaged as flatpaks.
The other thing I'm borrowing is distrobox+podman. I didn't know about that before. This seems useful for dev environments.
flatpaks + distrobox seem to be at least 50% of VanillaOS. So I'm borrowing those and then I get to keep the simple, mutable OS with Arch.
That being said, I've never had a problem with pacman breaking my system, so I don't see major value in doing this... other than... it's helping me procrastinate! I should be doing real work right now. 😄
Ooooh, ok. Missed that.
Hi, it isn't possible to install Tailscale inside the VSO container since it needs to interface with the host, for this case, I would suggest using a custom image following this template and rebase to it using ABRoot -> https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/custom-image.
Aw, dang. ok.
I'm like 12 hours in. It's not going too well right now... the biggest con is that there is basically no documentation for Orchrid...
My use case: I have Obsidian notes synced with Syncthing to a server only accessible via Tailscale. I was able to get Syncthing working by installing Syncthing GTK from Flathub (a workaround, I couldn't figure out how to install Syncthing the normal way). But I'm still out of luck because I can't reach the server.
The only way to install Tailscale is via a custom image it seems. :(
The other thing I haven't figured out is if it's possible to use wl-copy to copy text from a terminal. The terminal app basically opens into a container. It seems like wl-copy can't break out of the container and affect the host clipboard.
The container/isolation stuff seems kewl in theory, but so far I'm finding it pretty annoying.
I'm experimenting with this because I was wondering if VanillaOS would be a good fit for my parents, which actually, it might be. They have very basic needs. All their apps are on Flathub. But for me... I think I may just go back to Arch.
You mean the post that talks about the successful install that doesn't run? 😅
this post covers the successful install of tailscale on VanillaOS, however I cannot get it to run.
Also, that's from 2 years ago on VanillaOS Kinetic, not Orchrid. 😢
Oh, wait. Derp. Sorry. I need to RTFM.
$ vso sys
Execute system commands, such as upgrading the system
Usage:
vso sys [command]
Aliases:
sys, sys-upgrade
Available Commands:
check Check for system updates
upgrade Execute system commands, such as upgrading the system
Flags:
-h, --help help for sys
Use "vso sys [command] --help" for more information about a command.
The command got renamed.
Great post! Thank you for your service! 🫡
I'm currently researching immutable distros and this post was very helpful!
I will also install Fedora Silverblue or VanillaOS on my mums’ laptop in the future.
1 year later, did you end up doing this? I've been considering installing VanillaOS for my parents. I wonder how it turned out for you.
Honestly, each parent should have 6 mo of paid leave.
Heck yes. 12 weeks is nothing. The baby still needs a ton of help at this stage.
We have a temporary glitch with GitHub
The title is a little clickbaity. Seems like it's a transient GitHub issue.
Voyager has been pretty decent for me.