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Silverblue works fine for me but I miss gparted
What's the problem with it? (legit question from non-silverblue user)
there's no flatpak
Knowing such basic tools are missing makes me quite averse to trying it :/
You can still install most packages, it's just more steps. Look up "silverblue rpm-ostree overlaying"
It feels a bit like a phone OS, which is kinda awesome and horrible at the same time. It has gnome disks (or whatever is called, the default gnome partitioner) as an ok alternative to gparted. I have it installed on an old laptop that i occasionally use for web browsing and other light tasks, and for that it's great. I wouldn't use it for anything serious, but it's great if you want just a basic, no maintenance OS.
Of course you can install gparted, you can run just about anything that you want, it's still Linux.
I know but it kinda feels wrong haha. I like to use it flatpak only.
you can always just overlay that ;)