Provare Bluefin: La Prossima Evoluzione di Fedora Silverblue è Qui! 🚀🛠

Hai mai desiderato un desktop Linux che si aggiorna senza rischi, gestisce le app in container e offre la stabilità di Fedora Silverblue? 🌀💻 Oggi esploriamo Bluefin, l'incredibile desktop basato su Universal Blue.

Un tuffo tecnico completo nel desktop cloud-native definitivo! 💻📦

https://youtu.be/XrhIOA_ewew

@linux

#opensourceitalia #unolinux #gnulinux #distro #ita #opensource #Bluefin #UniversalBlue #LinuxContainer #fedora

Ok, now I have to write up something about this: https://s3kshun8.games/blog/flatpak-won/

Yeah. Well. Ok.

Let's talk about Bazzite - by which I mean Universal Blue and the bunch of related Fedora SilverBlue derived distros.

(Disclaimer: I believe there have been AI-related developments in and around this distro, so this is describing my feelings as of 6 months ago)

I came to this as a gamer: Steam on Debian Testing wasn't doing it for me any more - i.e. I had weird compatibility issues - so I was looking for something better, and Bazzite was right at the intersection of gaming-focused and interesting container-based interestingness.

Their approach is interesting: Fedora is the base, but you don't install packages, you install apps, and by apps I mean Flatpaks. Or if you need some CLI tool, you use Homebrew. (Yes, the app installer for MacOS)

I'd already used Flatpak for a couple of things on my Debian laptop, so I was familiar with it - it generally Just Works - so a thumb drive and an SSD later, I was cooking.

And it Just Worked. The game that wouldn't play: buttery smooth. Random other apps I installed? Flawless. Flatpaks and "normal" apps ("system" apps?) blend together like there isn't any real distinction. (It's nearly the same on my Debian laptop)

So what's the big deal?

And to be honest, I can't find one. I am beginning to wish more apps were Flatpaks. I recently started playing with Gram instead of VSCode, and it's nice that they provide deb packages, but it'd be nicer if it was a Flatpak. I fantasise about rebuilding more computers in my life around container images. I'm starting to worry that I'm turning into a true believer.

So yeah, who cares what your init system is, who even cares what your distro is. Flatpaks mean that I have a Linux machine in my life where the hobby is what I do with it, not tending to Linux itself. I'm somewhat concerned that I'm happy about this.

#Linux #tech #flatpak #bazzite #universalblue

I’d been using Fedora Silverblue for forever, but have been dabbling with Bazzite recently. I don’t really game on my PC, but there were some niceties from Universal Blue or Bazzite that I wanted.

Buuut I’m getting kind of annoyed with some of the UX changes that Bazzite makes from stock GNOME. The shell extensions I can disable, but I keep finding things: fonts and window switching (alt+tab) behavior are the most recent.

#GNOME #Linux #Bazzite #UniversalBlue

It's spring time, which means it's time for me to get bored with the operating system on my daily driver and start to re-investigate my options.  The oncoming onslaught of age verification laws that look like they were written by badly trained AI is also helping preempt this thought, since Linux distributions will of course be forced to react in some manner.

I'm currently running Project Bluefin, which is an opinionated variation of the Universal Blue project.  I'm a fan, and I'm not investigating change because of anything holding me back in the current front.

Ground rules:

Boosts welcome.  It'll be a fun time.

#linux #fedora #universalblue #projectbluefin #linuxfromscratch #choices #youdidntreadthisfardidyou #maybedanedid #poll

Welcome to Luminance, and say hello to Lumina

#linux #aurora #universalblue

Using #bootc install-to-existing-root you can now "rebase" from any classic distro to an image based OS like the ones from #UniversalBlue or #BootCrew !

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I used EndeavourOS as a base to easily switch to arch-boot, Bluefin's Egg and many others with no issues!
All you need is bootc, podman and systemd-boot!

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/how-install-image-mode-system-using-system-reinstall-bootc

I had a lot of freezes, reboots and kernel panics the last days. Really annoyed I started searching and found https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420039

First try was rolling back my #silverblue #universalblue image to a version from October last year. There the issue was not occuring kernel 6.17.

So I added another workaround to my image and downgrade amdgpu firmware, as described in the bugzilla. I'm running kernel 6.18.7 with downgraded firmware about 2 days now and no freeze or kernel panic happened.

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