Adventures with bootc: Upgrading to Fedora 42

Twice a year, I eagerly await the new Fedora release and typically move to it on my systems during the beta phase. I was particularly excited about trying this with F42 because my setup *should* let me change the tag on my image to from :41 to :42 and then all of my “child images” should get automatically rebuilt, and then all upgraded. I’ve been a user of various rpm-ostree distros for many years now. I typically tell people that once you go through a major upgrade, that’s it – you’ll never go back. As you might imagine this post probably wouldn’t exist if everything was smooth sailing. Don’t get me wrong everything worked out fine, but I thought it might be helpful to others if I documented a few things about my experience.

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bootc for Desktops?? Tell me more!

bootc is ridiculously amazing for headless servers – everyone knows that! It’s also a great fit for appliance-style graphical kiosks. What about a daily driver like a desktop or laptop? The TL;DR is it’s amazing, and I thought I’d share my experience.

So clean. So organized. Pro tip: input-leap works great w/ Wayland is seamless for using the same mouse and keyboard across all my systems.
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