#Fedora silverblue vs workstation install#

System packagesĮach and every system is made up at least of a basic set of software. We will look at them in the rest of the post. However, if you want to know and understand what happens underneath it is good to know the separate CLI commands for all kinds of software resources. Using the GUI alone is sufficient to take care of all update routines. If we have a closer look at the configured repositories in Gnome Software we see that it covers main Fedora repositories, 3rd party repositories, flatpaks, firmware and so on: The user does not even know where those come from. The above screenshot highlights that Gnome Software just shows available updates and can manage those.

It checks all sources and just provides the available updates in its single GUI: But before we dive into detailed CLI commands there is a simple way to do that all in one go: The Gnome Software tool does that for you. To properly update your Fedora system you have to check multiple sources. GUI solution Gnome Software – one tool to rule them all… And lost but not least, Fedora Silverblue does not support DNF at all.

Also, many firmware updates are managed via the dedicated management tool fwupd.

#Fedora silverblue vs workstation install#

Simple, right? But not these days: Fedora recently added capabilities to install and manage code via other ways: Flatpak packages are not managed by DNF.