411: The Best of Both OSs

What this episode covers

Is it possible to have Arch’s best feature on other Linux distros? We attempt it and report our findings. Plus our reaction to NVIDIA’s beta Wayland support–is this the milestone we’ve been waiting for?Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. Core Contributor Membership: Use promo code summer - Support the show, and take $1 off the lifetime of your membership! Promo Code: SummerA Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Salt Lake City MeetupDenver MeetupChristian Schaller on Twitter — We been working closely with NVidia over the last year to prepare the ground for full NVidia driver Wayland support, including XWayland. Today NVidia released the first beta driver of that work.Xwayland support in Fedora with the NVIDIA 470 series driver — Please help us test this support for hardware acceleration with the NVIDIA proprietary driver in Xwayland, and report issues for Xwayland in Fedora bugzilla.NVIDIA DRIVERS Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver BETAFedora Cloud Btrfs By Default - Fedora Project Wiki — For cloud installs of Fedora, we want to provide advanced file system features to users in a transparent fashion. Thus, we are changing the file system for the Cloud Edition to Btrfs so we can leverage its features and capabilities to improve the quality of experience for Cloud users.Pagure Commit: Use Btrfs for Fedora Cloud EditionPacstall — The AUR for Ubuntupacstall on GitHubpacstall-programsHenryws on GitHubmakedeb — Create Debian archives from PKGBUILDs.mpm — makedeb package managerjunest — The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs upon any Linux distros without root access.x11docker — Run GUI applications and desktops in docker. Focus on security.How to Run GUI Applications in a Docker Containerjessfraz/dockerfiles — Various Dockerfiles I use on the desktop and on servers.Nix, the purely functional package managerNixOSpacapt — An ArchLinux’s pacman-like wrapper for many package managers.Can I make use of other containers like debian or arch - Desktop / Silverblue - Fedora DiscussionMartin Pitt's Blog — Public lightweight sway developer desktop with OSTree and podman/toolbox.Fedora 34 Toolbox ContainerfileRunning Wine in Archlinux-based podman container