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

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 run before @alatiera embarks you on a GNOME OS journey
@thibaultamartin oh, I forgot to mention GNOME OS in the thread. I am not opposed! I just don’t think I should use it on my primary work computer rn… but I’d love to some day.
@cassidy @thibaultamartin It's surprisingly good and stable. I have bluefin on one laptop and gnome os on another. I use both often.

@sri @cassidy @thibaultamartin I need to start gathering testimonials from people about how shockingly stable they found GNOME OS and how it was not a big deal in the end.

You should totally try it, you have all the people you need on speedial anyway 😆

@alatiera @sri @cassidy @thibaultamartin do many people even use GNOME OS that you're likely to be able to find testimonials? I thought it was just a development / reference platform

@fraggle @alatiera @cassidy @thibaultamartin

That is its first use case. But a reference platform still has to be useful since we're pathfinding paradigms. If people can't use it how can you prove it is a valid tech?

https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2024/10/25/a-desktop-for-all/

A Desktop for All

TL;DR: I would like to turn GNOME OS, GNOME's home-grown distro for testing and development of the GNOME Desktop, into a daily-drivable general purpose OS.

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