I discovered these two gems installed after my Fedora Silverblue 42 upgrade. Kind of annoying, but easy to fix:

sudo rpm-ostree override remove hplip-gui

Look who's running Fedora Silverblue 42. I upgraded last night and it has been running smoothly ever since. The upgrade was simple and quick. I'm impressed with Fedora Linux.

Fedora Linux 42 Silverblue!

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-rebase-to-fedora-linux-42-on-silverblue/

How to rebase to Fedora Linux 42 on Silverblue (or Kinoite) https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-rebase-to-fedora-linux-42-on-silverblue/

Courtesy of @siosm here is a whole lot of info on the Atomic Desktops in Fedora 42 https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2025/04/15/fedora-atomic-desktops-42/

The Fedora 42 Atomic Desktops are out! You can find all the details in the Fedora magazine article: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-for-fedora-atomic-desktops-in-fedora-42/

We also have experimental bootable container images for Fedora Asahi Remix.

Well, #Fedora42 is a beauty!

Fedora Silverblue 42 review

This laptop installation started with Silverblue 38, and I upgraded every six months.

After experiencing some suspend/resume issues in Silverblue 41, I rebased to Kinoite 42.

It was my first time ever running KDE for more than a day.

It went well, and I stuck with it for two months.

But it wasn't trouble-free, so I wanted to see if Silverblue 42 solved some of my issues, even in this late beta stage.

1/3

Hi #Fedora,

What makes you use Fedora?
How do you like it?
How's it going?
How's gaming on Fedora?
What hardware do you run it on?

I'm curious because I use Debian myself, and I'd love to hear from Fedora users about their day-to-day experiences.

I rebased from Fedora Kinoite 41 to Fedora Silverblue 42.

Let's see how this works.

It occurred to me today that I probably know less about what’s under the hood of my Project Bluefin install than I do about any Linux that I’ve ever used.

I’ve dove deep into the guts of Arch, regular Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian and so many other distributions.

My god, at the time I’ve spent over the years just coaxing Debian into what I expected it to do on different machines.

I keep meaning to read up on ujust and a few other things, but I just haven’t had to.

Click button. Do some stuff. Go about my day. Everything just works.

Honestly, Silverblue was just as stable, but Bluefin has some nice quality of life tweaks.

#linux
#bluefin
#fedora
#silverblue

Battery life on new ThinkPad in Fedora Silverblue is fantastic.

Hello from #Fedora 42! #Silverblue makes the upgrade quick and worry-free

Me apetecía probar una distro inmutable y me está gustando mucho Fedora #Silverblue. ¿Alguien tiene alguna pega en comparación con usar Fedora Workstation como distro personal por defecto? ¿ @vrruiz ?

Tried updating my @starlabssystems #Starlite5 to #Fedora #Silverblue 42.

Wifi doesn't appear at all; the Aeroplane Mode toggle appears for a flash every couple of seconds, but there's no wifi.

And since upgrading to Silverblue 41, every startup has taken several minutes. Resuming from suspend doesn't always work. There's no way to make the media keys be normal F1-F12 keys.

(Meanwhile my 2012 ThinkPad has none of these problems.)

Is this normal for a tablet designed for Linux?

Do I have to throw it away once Fedora 41 is end-of-life?

I didn't expect hardware support to get gradually worse, and if I'd known I wouldn't be able to upgrade past a certain version, I would never have bought it.

I’ve now been using #Bazzite (desktop) and #Silverblue (laptop) for some time. I don’t think it’s worth it.

I like the idea. Sandboxing is kind of appealing. But realistically no Debian box failed updates for decades and there are quite a few. And I don’t have tons of software installed anyway.

Installing software like Docker is super annoying. Flatpaks feel less table than installing the same software via apt / yum / dnf.

Atomic spins aren’t bad, just not enough value that I’d recommend it.

Yesterday, I wanted to re-fit an old Toshiba Satellite U840-113 (PSU4SE) with Linux for a friend. He asked for something like ChromeOS because he doesn't want to care about anything and mostly uses the browser anyway, so I chose Bluefin. After booting with a Ventoy stick (just mentioned because it might be the cause for what followed), I think it's Anaconda which displayed an error dialog for a few moments before the system shutdown again, leaving me without a chance to find out what happened.

I shrugged it off, blamed Bluefin and went on to download Silverblue. Same thing. Okay, maybe it's because the old hardware and Anaconda don't work together. So I downloaded Fedora Workstation.

Interestingly, on clicking the "Install" button, it errored out apparently in the same way but without shutting down. I could restart the installer and that worked. 1/2

Wait, with https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ComposefsAtomicDesktops we can no longer use #Nix on #Fedora #Silverblue? https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/nix-installer/issues/1445 says transient root needs to be enabled, but I can't figure out how to do that on a live system