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 Bluefin might be more for you. It's still modified, but less for gaming.

@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.

@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).