If Arch wouldn't work for me, perhaps another atomic install known as Aurora would work! (yep, nerd post)

Honestly, after struggling to get that CachyOS installer to work, I binned that idea. Followed a recommendation from another user on OMGUbuntu of all places; he suggested Aurora as a nice Atomic Linux distro to use. Since I'm already using Bazzite as a daily driver on my desktop, I decided to try.

OMG The smoothness Aurora makes it satisfying to use. The distro just works with a little extra configuration needed to make it right for me. I stopped trying to get Mullvad VPN to work via package layering and will be trying to use Mullvad through Tailscale in the coming days (once I've read the documentation to my satisfaction).

In the time between that, I set up a NextDNS and make use of that through Tailscale (it's filtering a lot of nonsense from the web). I can even use Tailscale to transfer files between my laptop and desktop, this will bypass the weird Filen issue that I temporarily experienced while launching+running it via it's VM container.

There was really only one change that I needed to implement. That was using Fedora as the Distrobox on Aurora...As for whatever reason, creating an Ubuntu Distrobox refused to work, update, or be useful. Left me scratching my head, but, I can use the two applications that aren't on Flathub at the moment.

Otherwise, Aurora just works and I love it for being a great Atomic distro that makes using Linux both easier and prettier (KDE is the best DE in my opinion).

I'll keep this one short, unlike the last one because I could likely go on for FAR too long. Thanks for reading!