Xiaofeng Wang
Xiaofeng Wang is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with 10 years at the company and 15 years of open source experience. Currently on the Image Mode team, Xiaofeng has deep expertise in container-native operating systems, having previously worked on Project Atomic Host and RHEL for Edge. This lightning talk draws from both professional experience building image-based Linux systems and personal experience running bootc as a daily-driver desktop.
Red Hat
Senior Principal Software Quality Engineer
Session
What if your entire development workstation — desktop environment, tools, and configurations — lived in a single container image? This lightning talk introduces bootc desktop: a production-ready Fedora 43 bootc image built for daily use on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon.
I'll demonstrate how containerized operating systems solve real desktop problems: atomic updates with automatic rollback, reproducible environments from a single Containerfile, and version-controlled configurations. In 15 minutes, you'll see a complete Wayland desktop (niri compositor + Noctalia shell) boot from a container image, upgrade atomically, and recover gracefully from a bad update.
This isn't a proof-of-concept — it's been my daily driver for a long time. If you've ever bricked your workstation with a bad update or spent days recreating your development environment, this talk is for you.