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.
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?
@cassidy that’d be the ublue image that’s called silverblue (or silverblue-nvidia if you have nvidia drivers) image. It’s the only one that I would recommend honestly. Most changes apart from codecs are CLI things like distrobox and ujust.
It’s what I use at work, or at least my own image based on that with a few default apps as well as some layers such as docker, hashcat and veracrypt.
https://github.com/sstendahl/SjoerdOS/blob/main/recipes/recipe.yml
@sstendahl alright, maybe I do need to throw my own config together. I make a couple of small personal tweaks to stock GNOME and while I don’t really mind doing them on each install, it could be nice to have them defined somewhere. Hmmmm…
Thank you for sharing the link! For now I might just use ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue since I didn't realize that existed.
@cassidy the repo I shared was done with bluebuild, it’s quite a nice project as they make it relatively easy.
Regarding the base image from ublue, it’s what universal blue used to be. But nowadays they mostly focus on the more tweaked ones, which are based on this base image. The base image is no longer recommended, which is a shame as it’s my favorite general purpose spin.
See: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/how-to-install-universal-blues-base-images/868 (just replace Kinoite with Silverblue in the example for GNOME)
What are the base images? The base images are the building blocks for our end-user images like Bluefin), Aurora, and Bazzite. They live in the ublue-os/main repository. These are generic Fedora Atomic Desktop but with non-free codecs, RPMFusion, and automatic updates out of the box. The base images do not deviate too far from Fedora Atomic and plan to stay as close to upstream as possible. They are intended to be built upon and used as a base for custom images. Think of them like basic st...
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