Announcing our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix!

https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/

@AsahiLinux Yay, no more Arch

@AsahiLinux Congratulations! Though I do use Arch on my desktop always had a soft spot for Fedora (and in fact a lot of my homelab VMs run fedora server!)

@AsahiLinux neat! what does this mean for current users of the Arch flavor of things? Will I need to start from scratch?

@_pear @AsahiLinux To migrate, yes (there's no viable automatic migration path between distros in general, unfortunately). The existing Arch repo will continue to be maintained for future updates (at least for a long while), but most future distro integration/polish work will be focused on Fedora going forward, so we do encourage moving over.

Standard Linux distrohopping tricks apply, e.g. back up your home directory and restore it on the new distro and it probably won't break too much and keep most of your stuff. You still need to reinstall any packages you need though.

@AsahiLinux uhh... I'm having a problem following this link. It is also not scrollable (mobile firefox), so I don't even know if I can disable it.

@Igigog @AsahiLinux Same here using Vivaldi browser on Android :(
The link opens normally using Chrome.

@arnoo @Igigog @AsahiLinux I tried both Vivaldi and Firefox on Android and they work fine for me. Maybe you have some kind of extension causing it?

@AsahiLinux FYI whatever you're using to block incoming clicks from HN, it's also randomly blocking traffic from users here and on lemmy. Good job.

@WorseDoughnut @AsahiLinux It very specifically only checks HN, it has to be a browser thing or something like that if it's false triggering. But I can't reproduce it on any browsers I've tried...

@marcan @arnoo @Igigog @AsahiLinux yeah it happens to me too on firefox desktop, with the darkreader extension

@charlotte @Igigog @AsahiLinux @arnoo Lol, it's probably darkreader. If you flip all the colors, it would cause precisely that.

Is there some way to tell darkreader to not do that?

@marcan @Igigog @AsahiLinux @arnoo You can disable darkreader on the site and it would not do that

@yukijoou @charlotte @Igigog @AsahiLinux @arnoo I found a workaround, though that took a lot more effort than it should've. Should be fixed now.

@marcan @AsahiLinux its hitting me on Firefox Beta on my phone, which i've never visited hacknernews from, so it's clearly not working as intended.

@WorseDoughnut @AsahiLinux Do you have Dark Reader? If so it should be fixed now.

@rewarp @WorseDoughnut @AsahiLinux I think that's normal for modes that try to show the entire page inline, I don't think there's much I can do about that...

Edit: doesn't happen to me on desktop though, maybe the change I made now fixed it accidentally too?

@marcan @yukijoou @Igigog @AsahiLinux @arnoo that works. thank you!

@marcan @AsahiLinux Yeah seems sorted now. It's still at the bottom of the page (presumably blocking whatever's in the footer) but that's interesting that it was darkreader causing the issue. If it's just a :visited check, then what was triggering the false positive?

@WorseDoughnut @AsahiLinux It's a color math based trick, and Dark Reader messes with the colors and screws it up. The text is always there, it's just invisible with the original CSS.

@marcan @yukijoou @charlotte @AsahiLinux @arnoo can confirm it works now

@AsahiLinux 😻
In the post you say it's unstable. Would you say less stable than the Arch flavor or equivalent ?

@gabji @AsahiLinux Possibly less right now because we're actively hacking on it more, but that will change.

@AsahiLinux Kinda disappointed that Asahi switched to Fedora, a distro that works for GNOME and Red Hat. I guess as long as the upstream first policy continues and I can look forward to using other distros like Alpine on M1 and M2, everything’s fine.

@ayushnix @AsahiLinux We're open to working with all distros, Fedora is just the first and so far only one to work with us in an official upstream capacity ;)

@ayushnix @AsahiLinux Fedora is a (probably *the*) upstream first distro so that's pretty much assured :)

@brynet @AsahiLinux The images will be available on the official asahilinux.org installer_data.

@AsahiLinux for the install page, should clarify if it should be ran from macOS or from an existing install of Asahi (which I know is wrong, but both would "work")

@gu3st @AsahiLinux From macOS.

@marcan @_pear @AsahiLinux What will the default DE be? Still KDE Plasma?

@cameronbosch @_pear @AsahiLinux Yes.

@marcan @WorseDoughnut @AsahiLinux it shows up in reader mode, too

@edihael It doesn't show up on reader mode here in Firefox, but I guess that depends on the implementation. The message is there after all, so I'm not surprised if reader mode shows it (but it should show it at the end, not overlaying the page).

@fwcd @_pear @AsahiLinux We'll keep the Minimal install (for users who want a vanilla Arch experience) and deprecate the Arch Plasma image which was always more of a demo than a long term thing.

@AsahiLinux Yessss! Next step: Fedora Silverblue :'-)

@ljrk @AsahiLinux yes I agree, we have to look at Silverblue at some point...

@ecurtin @AsahiLinux

If I can convince my employer I'd instantly daily-drive it if available :'-)

@ljrk @ecurtin @AsahiLinux Silverblue is going to make a ton of sense once we work out the SEP and security stuff, since then we can *really* start approaching macOS levels of security :)

@ecurtin @ljrk @AsahiLinux If someone could help with getting kiwi to support creating rpm-ostree images, then we could consider it down the road: https://github.com/OSInside/kiwi/issues/38

@Conan_Kudo @ecurtin @AsahiLinux I somehow missed Kiwi all along!

@marcan @ayushnix @AsahiLinux does any distro include NixOS? There is unofficial NixOS module for running on arm macs but if you’d like to I’m also very much interested in upstreaming it

@nrab @ayushnix @AsahiLinux Sure :)

@AsahiLinux I have one question, will the Arch repo stay up ? And up to date ?

@eragon @AsahiLinux Yes, the repo will continue to be updated but further distro integration work will focus on Fedora.

@AsahiLinux How can Arch users seamlessly switch to Fedora once it is released? Or should we take a fresh installation?

@yuchanns @AsahiLinux You'll have to reinstall to switch, there's no way to seamlessly migrate distros unfortunately.