Fedora Silverblue on Acer Aspire Switch
----------------------------------------
After the untimeliy and way to early demise of my Thinkpad (yes, the
one i praised in another entry) i was forced to look into which
machine i make my next daily driver. After diving into the big
treasure chest that is my companies heap of used electronics i
discovered an Acer Aspire Switch convertible. Its from 2018 if i
remember correctly, sports an intel atom processor, 2GB of RAM and an
tiny HD with only 32 GB disk space. But on the upside: It has an
amazing battery life of nearly a full day (compare this to the < 2
hours of the Thinkpad) and due to its construction as a convertible
its super portable.
Of course i could not leave Windows on it, but which OS should i
install? I opted for Fedora Silverblue, because the concept of an
immutable distribution sounded interesting to me and i hadn't touched
something Red Hat like in the last ~20 years.
If you don't consider the hoops i had to jump through to convince
secure boot to boot first the installer and then the installed OS (for
real... what where the guys at acer thinking?) the installation was
quiet uneventfull.
So, after getting it to work, how DOES it "work"? Well, i think the
best praise you can give to an operating system is that it "stays out
of the way", in this regard i can't praise Fedora Silverblue enough:
It simply works. I have still to dive into the possibilities of
toolbox (it is a container system which gives you the option to set up
multiple environments... i think it could best be compared to guix
shell as far as i understand it), and i am farely new to Flatpak, so
another thing to explore. But overall: Im am quiet happy at the moment.
