Article Summary:
The article will describe how easy it is to switch between ostree-based variants of Fedora (Silverblue/Kinoite/Sericea) easy and secure with the availability of rollback in case if something goes wrong.
I did’t find this to be described in any official website, but this is nice feature, so I think it is good to inform people about it.
Article Description:
The article will first describe how people can try different desktop environments while using traditional Fedora Workstation not Ostree-based and drawbacks of the solutions:
Next, the article will describe how ostree-based systems differ from non-ostree based (e.g immutable, transactional updates)
And the last topic, the article will describe how users can easily switch between ostree-based Fedora Spins (Silverblue/Kinoite/Sericea) to try different desktop environments using rpm-ostree rebase and describe advantages of this way:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/article-proposal-trying-different-desktop-environments-using-rpm-ostree-rebase/81121
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@kuba3351 ( @glb ) I've come up with two possible images for this article. If neither is a good fit, I can go with a simple texture behind the same text. I'm good with what ever you like, though I'm partial to the typewriter version.
This would be a good time to look over the text @kuba3351 to make certain my edits have not changed you intentions. :-)
<img alt="ostree_de-s_eggs.jpg" src="/fedora-magazine-newsroom/issue/raw/files/6a687b8f93b10aaf0eeb07ab98d8463623462047a3e26d312960463c9ad88be1-ostree_de-s_eggs.jpg" /><img alt="ostree_de-s_typo.jpg" src="/fedora-magazine-newsroom/issue/raw/files/d0bae72fb398b76ca885792cc790f788642dec8752194f7e6387bca7f12aa548-ostree_de-s_typo.jpg" />
Thank you @rlengland for your work. I think the first picture with eggs should be ok.
I also reviewed the changes made into the article, and I think they are mostly ok except the section titles:
"Undo the OSTree variant"
I think you mean something like: Undo the rebase into an OSTree variant
And the second one:
"How to use OSTree to install a variant"
I prefer to use a rebase instead of install because the install word suggests that I am installing something from scratch like a system from the ISO image. It actually does not installing a new system, just rebasing the installed one :-)
@kuba3351 Would these two subsection headers be better descriptions?
How to use OSTree rebase to switch to a new variant Undo the rebase into an OSTree variant
I'll roll the image you selected into the article in a little while.
Thanks for the review.
Yes, I think they are ok.
Metadata Update from @rlengland: - Custom field publish adjusted to 2023-05-05 - Issue untagged with: needs-image
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