dotfiles

This is a selection of settings and preferences for my Fedora Silverblue installation.

Anaconda kickstart

1. Download the network installer ISO from https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/download/
2. Boot the ISO and stop at Grub screen
3. Highlight "Install Fedora", press e and append:

inst.ks=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/francoism90/dotfiles/main/silverblue.ks

or when using an USB-device labelled LIVE:

inst.ks=hd:LABEL=LIVE:ks/silverblue.ks

4. Press F10 to start the installation using the kickstart file

Maintenance

Reference:

• https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/OSTree
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/troubleshooting/

To show difference after upgrades:

rpm-ostree db diff -c

nofile

Increasing nofile limits may be needed for certain applications and games to work.

See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1257953 for more details.

NOTE: Reboot the system to apply increased limits.

Filesystem

Trim

Enable the fstrim timer:

sudo systemctl enable fstrim.timer --now

Encryption

If you are using encryption on a NVMe/SSD, you may want to improve performance by disabling the workqueue.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Disable_workqueue_for_increased_solid_state_drive_(SSD)_performance for details.

Btrfs

If you are using Btrfs, you may want to use https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance:

rpm-ostree install btrfsmaintenance
nano /etc/sysconfig/btrfsmaintenance

Enable the timers:

sudo systemctl enable btrfs-balance.timer btrfs-defrag.timer btrfs-scrub.timer btrfs-trim.timer --now

Software

Toolbox

It is discourage to install (large) software on the ostree. Try to use Flatpaks and toolboxes (toolbox create and toolbox enter) as much as possible.

You can pull the latest toolbox, using:

podman pull fedora-toolbox:41

To update a toolbox:

toolbox enter
sudo dnf update && sudo dnf upgrade

You can create multiple toolboxes, and even manage them using Podman Desktop.

Firefox

To replace the provided default Firefox package, with the Firefox Flathub version for example:

rpm-ostree override remove firefox firefox-langpacks

NOTE: You can also hide the desktop entry itself.

Brave

Depending on your hardware, you may need to enable/disable different flags. See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/gpu/vaapi.md#vaapi-on-linux for details.

Podman

Enable and use rootless containers:

• https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Podman#Rootless_Podman

To learn more about Podman Quadlet, the following resources may be useful:

• https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html
• https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
• https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/

VSCodium / VSCode

See the following guides:

• flathub/com.visualstudio.code#426 (comment)
• https://github.com/jorchube/devcontainer-definitions
• VSCodium/vscodium#1487

You may use Flatseal, and set the following overwrites:

• Add to Other files: xdg-run/podman:ro
• Add to Variables: FLATPAK_ENABLE_SDK_EXT=podman,php83

Extensions

Current extensions:

$ flatpak run com.visualstudio.code  --list-extensions | xargs -L 1 echo vsc --install-extension
vsc --install-extension aaron-bond.better-comments
vsc --install-extension amiralizadeh9480.laravel-extra-intellisense
vsc --install-extension bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client
vsc --install-extension bradlc.vscode-tailwindcss
vsc --install-extension christian-kohler.npm-intellisense
vsc --install-extension christian-kohler.path-intellisense
vsc --install-extension davidanson.vscode-markdownlint
vsc --install-extension dbaeumer.vscode-eslint
vsc --install-extension devsense.composer-php-vscode
vsc --install-extension eamodio.gitlens
vsc --install-extension editorconfig.editorconfig
vsc --install-extension eriklynd.json-tools
vsc --install-extension esbenp.prettier-vscode
vsc --install-extension github.copilot
vsc --install-extension github.copilot-chat
vsc --install-extension github.github-vscode-theme
vsc --install-extension github.vscode-github-actions
vsc --install-extension jock.svg
vsc --install-extension ms-azuretools.vscode-docker
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh-edit
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode.atom-keybindings
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode.remote-explorer
vsc --install-extension ms-vscode.remote-server
vsc --install-extension onecentlin.laravel-blade
vsc --install-extension pkief.material-icon-theme
vsc --install-extension quicktype.quicktype
vsc --install-extension redhat.vscode-yaml
vsc --install-extension shd101wyy.markdown-preview-enhanced
vsc --install-extension sleistner.vscode-fileutils
vsc --install-extension streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
vsc --install-extension stylelint.vscode-stylelint
vsc --install-extension visualstudioexptteam.intellicode-api-usage-examples
vsc --install-extension visualstudioexptteam.vscodeintellicode
vsc --install-extension wmaurer.change-case

Fish

See https://starship.rs/guide/, append paths:

rpm-ostree install fish ibm-plex-mono-fonts ibm-plex-sans-fonts ibm-plex-serif-fonts
systemctl reboot
chsh -s /bin/fish

To add fish path lookups:

fish_add_path  ~/.local/bin ~/.config/yarn/global/node_modules/.bin

Appearance

See https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-app-apply-theme/ instructions for Flatpak theming.

To install Gnome Tweak:

rpm-ostree install gnome-tweak-tool