r/BlendOS

I keep hearing about hyprland, and I am not sure what to make of it. Is this an alternative to GNOME and other DEs? I guess it can be installed via system.yaml as a plain Arch package, right? Will it work if I already have GNOME installed? Will it break my GNOME environment?

I am using Nix OS for two years now - switched form Arch Linux

It was worth the try because in Arch Linux over time I was not aware of what is installed in my system and configuration I forget.

I saw Blend OS recently is it worth the hassle.

Currently I run pi-hole, jellyfin, radarr, sonarr, bazarr, prowlarr, etc.

Just want to know are these experiences better in Blend OS because of inbuilt container support rather than using docker that I use in my Nix OS setup (I know that can be done in Nix OS itself I have not switched to it yet from the old Arch Linux install - pi-hole is using Nix OS container for now)

Any suggestions?

I just wanted to put that out there! I have distro-hopped A LOT. I have used CachyOS, Bazzite, Nobara, EndeavourOS, Garuda, Arch, Pop_OS, Ubuntu, Arcane Linux, KDE Linux, Fedora, and Nix (and probably a few I am forgetting right now.) This is quite a gem of a distro. I have always wanted an immutable Arch-based distro that you can easily configure like Nix and have everything update atomically and you have achieved that here.

Thank you so much for creating and maintaining BlendOS. I hope this project has a long lifespan. I can't contribute as a dev or IT person cause I am just a layman hobbyist but if you have other ways I can contribute, please let me know. I want this distribution to get the attention it deserves and to grow!

Hello, I just installed BlendOS and I've been trying to get secure boot working on my laptop (Acer Nitro 5 old model) this is my first time dealing with immutable systems so I'm kinda fighting with the OS all the time to get this done, so... I've made some progress with the help of Claude AI, and... so far what I have is sbctl under Packages: and some custom services that are supposed to help me with something, but more on that later, so first Claude gave me some commands to install sbctl after I added it in the system.yaml in order to install sbctl

sudo chattr -i /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/*

sudo sbctl create-keys

sudo sbctl enroll-keys --microsoft

sudo sbctl sign -s /boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen

sudo sbctl sign -s /boot/EFI/blend/grubx64.efi

sudo sbctl sign -s /boot/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

and that gave some positive status on sbctl

https://preview.redd.it/16mqhgdtf2pg1.png?width=568&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa14a95ebbf6a614cd8e6ff786b46ca216618005

I tough that was it, but that wasn't the case,So I went to the BIOS enabled Secure Boot, rebooted and got an error that sent me to the rescue grub, it was related to some shim_lock stuff "error: kern/efi/sb.c:shim_lock_verifier_init:177:prohibited by secure boot policy" so I had to reinstall grub with a special flag

sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=blend --modules="tpm" --disable-shim-lock

Then repeat the sign process, went to BIOS enabled Secure boot again and rebooted, gave me the same error so I went to BIOS again to disable Secure Boot but the bios was gone, it was a white underscore on the top left corner and nothing else, this is a bug from my laptop it happens every time something that's not windows touches the EFI partitions, so I had to unplug the CMOS battery, wait, plug it back in, reboot and the BIOS was there, some settings were messed up but I changed them to the previous ones and there was a blend entry on the boot order and secureboot was enabled, made that one the number 1 and booted up and it was working and even gnome security recognized the secure boot

https://preview.redd.it/keup2cc4i2pg1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=c543e4edc5ca84d96c3ea0d281e9c03aba0b6785

Then i was doing some stuff here and there and added some packages to the System.yaml, ran akshara update and this message caught my attention

https://preview.redd.it/fsl0hgkei2pg1.png?width=589&format=png&auto=webp&s=0221b1dc0d946d74c6b2c0c5ffde8ed9457227b3

At first I thought that was because the keys were already signed in, however after rebooting I could get to the Grub, but when selecting Arch Linux (BlendOS) I just got the two messages Linux loading init ram or something and it kicked me back to the Grub, tried multiple times but I couldn't get to the OS anymore, so went to the BIOS, disable secure boot, etc, and could get into it and when running sbctl status everything looked fine just as in the image from before, but running sudo sbctl list-files revealed something that I think its the problem

https://preview.redd.it/skhe9kljj2pg1.png?width=309&format=png&auto=webp&s=31494c4f58304955fd2a8419446e760bf6680276

the vmlinuz-linux-zen file was not signed even-tough it was before so signed it again by hand and could boot with secureboot again, what seems to be happening is that on every update the vimlinuz-linux-zen file gets overwritten or something so its not signed after the update, and if I forget to sign it before rebooting I'm screwed so I have to do that every time, but I don't want to be doing that so tried multiple things like adding the sudo sbctl sign-all instruction under Commands: section but said that /boot wasn't mounted or something like that, and what I'm trying right now is to create a systemd service that does the signing for me however I'd like to know if someone has done this before, if there's a better approach to it or if there's like a official way to enable secure boot with BlendOS, I'll appreciate your help on this regard.