I've been on Ultramarine Linux for a while and I strongly recommend it, it's fantastic! Imagine Fedora but you don't have to worry about all of the annoying stuff you have to worry about when you install it for the first time... and with some little comforts on top of that. And that's pretty much it.
But I think I'm going back to Bazzite. And the reason is a silly one but I think it's also quite the testament to the convenience of Universal Blue's images... I'm kind of sick about having to worry about updates. That's it.
On Bazzite, updates just happen in the background without me touching anything and the next time I boot up my computer, poof, they're applied. It just does its thing and I don't even notice it. But here, I often have to manually update through the software center and then, not just reboot, but purposefully reboot to do install my updates.
Why is this annoying, you may ask? Because, usually, when I shut down my computer, it's late at night and I want to go to sleep. And going to sleep for me, with my ADHD, it's a whooooole process. So, having to go through the motions of: Shut down my computer > Let it boot up again > Enter my longass password to decrypt my drive (the most annoying part) > Let it do its thing until it shuts off automatically... well, that's added friction.
And I know how it sounds, like nothing, but it's been enough for me to put off updates plenty of times. But compare that to not thinking about it ever because everything just happens in the background and the next time I'll boot up my computers all of the updates will be layered on top of my system without me even noticing... it makes for quite the difference to me.
When I got into the whole Universal Blue thing with Bluefin, I just couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. Why was everyone talking about "not having to worry about updates, ever?" I kept trying to update manually until one day it just clicked, maybe I noticed that things had updated themselves without me noticing, I don't remember. But since then, it has become such a little piece of comfort that... I miss it. Enough to hop back to an immutable system instead of staying on more traditional Linux distro.
And while I know that for some people, everything happening in the background without ever having to think about it sounds like hell, well, you're probably not the target then. Because to me, it sounds like heaven. Not having to worry about my 'puter other than feeding it a balanced diet of pets on its chassis and the occasional dust cleaning, it's wonderful. It makes it self-sustaining on the software side. And I really like that.
Good job, Universal Blue peeps! You got me.
(please don't be / turn into far right weirdos like so many fucking open source projects)
#universalblue #fedora #ultramarinelinux #bazzite #bluefin #projectbluefin
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