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

Testing UltraMarine Linux 43 xfce to Lenovo ideapad i3-8145U 12 Gb RAM DDR4 , installed into USB drive. Run smoothly , Wine , #Briscad , #AceCombat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY58hUyQaVw

#linuxindonesia #belajarlinux #distroreview #linuxinstallation #linuxreview #historicalinux #ultramarineLinux #ultramarine43

disclaimer: i understand this is not the proper way to do a bug report and that i should do this over git. however, i'm a very anxious bunny and git scares me. i'm not used to git at all, and i'm not a technical user at all. i know i should do it, but i just wouldn't even begin to know where to start. so for now, this is the best i can do. please don't be mad at me. 

@GTK @gnome @ultramarine @FlatpakApps @fedora

there is a massive bug that resides in what seems to be specifically gtk 4 on intel arc gpu. i use an intel arc b580 and this has been a consistant issue for me for a while. the reason why i'm only talking about it now is because, again, i'm very anxious and doing these reports is very difficult for me.

basically: gtk 4 apps seems to be completely broken on intel arc gpus under oddly specific conditions. currently, on my system, i run ultramarine linux 43, the kde version. so i'm not exposed to many gtk 4 apps but after testing, i've been able to notice that the flatpak versions of gtk 4 apps are broken. for some reason, the standard rpm fedora repo don't seem to have this flaw which i can't really wrap my head around.

the issue can be instantaneous or appear after a while. in the video i posted below, you can see me messing around with flatseal, but this could be any other gtk 4 app. i'm specifically "stress testing it" by stretching it and clicking it because i've noticed that this can cause the issue to appear faster, however, anything that's moving inside the application can cause the issue, even text appearing on a terminal.

what i don't understand about this is that this is a bug that has seemingly been fixed, but is also still present here and there somehow.

special note to the universal blue team!

@UniversalBlue @jorge

at the moment, on all three images, as in: bazzite, bluefin and aurora, this bug is present before doing the first batch of updates. after the first batch of system updates and a reboot, the bug is patched out but before, it is there, which is a big issue because all three are using the gnome terminal, which is gtk 4 and that's heavily prone to crashing. a solution that i had come up with was to simply hide the terminal by minimizing it and just let it do its thing and restart, because letting it render on the display could lead to it crashing in the middle of updates.

again, once the system is updated, the bug disappears but before then, right after the install it is present and breaks stuff.

none of this is a criticism of any of the projects or people behind said projects. they're all amazing, talented people and i respect the hell out of them. the fact that this has gone unnoticed for so long is simply because my setup is really niche one. it maybe could've helped if i had said something sooner too, but alas, anxiety is a bitch.

#intelarc #gtk4 #fedora43 #kde #gnome #ultramarinelinux #intelarcgpu