Cassidy James   2d ago

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

Show threadCassidy James   2d ago

I’m fine with other changes, like using Bazaar by default and the way updates are handled.

Should I just go back to Silverblue, or is there a stock GNOME Universal Blue image that would make sense to use? What would the less-visible differences be?

Show threadZak 
@cassidy Bluefin might be more for you. It's still modified, but less for gaming.
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Show threadCassidy James   2d ago

@zak I feel like Bluefin leans REALLY hard into the developer tooling stuff which I’ve mostly ignored. I’m very happy with toolbox for like 99% of things I actually need, and layering a package or two for the rest.

I’m not strictly opposed, but honestly the amount of new-to-me developer tooling seemed daunting to try to learn or to even fully grok what was going on.

Show threadJorge Castro2d ago
@cassidy @zak It doesn't get installed if you don't use it. It's totally opt-in.
Show threadpassthejoe1d ago
For me, using any new system provides an opportunity to learn different ways of doing things. I pick up little things every time I make a switch. Configs, apps, fonts. I went from Silverblue to Aeon to Bluefin.

I am very much NOT a cloud-native developer. I'm just a dabbler, and I do that in Distrobox. I really like having Distrobox, Toolbox and Brew all in the base -- all great choices.

If Silverblue had put Distrobox in its base, I probably would have never left. It's the custom home directories per container that I wanted.

I don't have Bluefin's developer shell activated. I don't think I need it. That's OK.

What I like about Bluefin is that it's ridiculously stable despite having so much new stuff, has a great community, and super open development. And it only updates the base system once a week. I don't want a new image every day. Weekly is just right.

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Show threadburns2d ago
@cassidy I'm not a developer in any way. Just someone that likes GNOME and uses a computer for regular stuff and some audio editing for a community radio. Bluefin is great for me. Just GNOME and Flatpaks (I disable all extensions).
Show threadDusana Mykola2d ago
@zak @cassidy Yeah, that makes sense. Bluefin seems like it keeps the nice tweaks without going full gaming mode. Might be a better fit if you just want the smoother UX and stability without all the game-focused changes.