jakimfett
BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Seems to be working, thank you!
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Hmm...I didn't actually see the signup text, maybe because I created my login after clicking the "edit" button on a doc instead of via the login page?
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Ah, here we go...useful error message achieved:
So...should I stand up my own GitLab instance for this? Or what's the recommended path to start contributing to the docs etc?
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Hmm, it's not just
image-builder I can't fork website either.50 replies
BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Oi @ﾑ丂ｲ乇尺ﾉ丂ズ any idea why I can't fork the https://git.blendos.co/blendOS/image-builder repo within the gitlab interface? I guess I could clone and push to an unlinked repo, but I'd like to not orphan my work on this...
(username is
jakimfett over there too, just for reference)50 replies
BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Nice, I'll ingest that and ask more questions after. Thanks.
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Dunno. But I intend to find out. Gonna take me a bit to get up to speed on how it all fits together, tho. Thanks for your patience with this process.
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
yeah this is the hard one, like I know what I want to know, but not everyone has had their head buried in Linux since the early '90, so...the questions I ask probably have nothing to do with what people in general want to know.
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
My goal with asking questions is to also write docs. I appreciate you taking the time to discuss.
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Yeah, the nix stuffs is pretty darn unapproachable if you're not making it a focus of study. I'm looking at BlendOS as an alternative to putting everyone on NixOS and just telling them to deal XD
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Would you be willing to explain this further? How does immutability relate to the overlayFS?
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Respectfully, four months is...a fairly short period of time.
I've watched a lot of distros rise and fall, and I have learned that the first few months are a good time to sit back and watch the bugs emerge and get fixed. I'm looking at v4 now because it's been enough time that it probably won't become entirely unusable just from being used normally for web browsing, email, shell scripting, and non-OS software testing.
The online documentation is incredibly sparse, and searching for solutions is rather painful at the moment. Give it a year or three, and I hope that will change. BlendOS has a lot of promise, which is why I'm asking about the stuff that makes or breaks this for the average user.
I am not an average user. I am a system administrator, in the "was building servers before the internet" meaning of that title. I am testing BlendOS as a strong candidate for the desktop environment in my organization, but most of the people are nontechnical and would be extremely confused by how sparse the documentation is at the current moment. I'd like to help change that, but I'm a very different mindset when it comes to longevity. Four years is a short time, and four months is barely a blink.
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Do you know of any unofficial efforts towards an upgrade path?
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
The issue isn't the data. It's all the non-declarative configuration necessary to have a working system.
Less "data" and more "which apps get pinned to the quick access bar, wifi connections, night mode settings, and all the myriad other tweaks that take a particular OS from stock to customized for my workflows". This is nontrivial even on declarative systems, and I was really hoping that BlendOS would further reduce this overhead.
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
That makes sense. Are you using "immuteability" as a distinct concept from "declarative" here?
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BblendOS
•Created by jakimfett on 10/17/2024 in #🆘┃support
v3 --> v4 upgrade path?
Gotcha. Both 9to5linux (https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-blendos-a-blend-of-arch-linux-fedora-linux-and-ubuntu) and Distrowatch (https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20230313) among others state that BlendOS "follows a rolling release model", so this is an unfortunate regression from my perspective.
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