Mastodawn

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

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Cassidy James

1d 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?

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Cassidy James

1d ago

Also, would it be a terrible idea to rebase from Bazzite to a stock GNOME uBlue image (if it exists) or Silverblue? I’ve successfully rebased between images before but it’s been a while. 😅

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Jorge Castro 1d ago

@cassidy Can't you just fix the fonts? And turn off the other extensions? Going pure vanilla should be easy.

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Jordan Petridis 1d ago

@jorge @cassidy The schemas and other stuff are kinda of a pain to deal with after the fact, it's why I made the unblue image instead of a vanilla-gnome mode.

Cassidy, you could try this and take over if you want even! I haven't looked at the repo though since I made it, but I think it probably still works.

https://github.com/alatiera/unblue

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Jorge Castro 1d ago

@alatiera @cassidy Is there a good way to ship the upstream defaults and then ours as an optional set on top?

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Cassidy James

@jorge @alatiera you can as a session-specific override, I think. And then you would have the Bazzite session which would be distinct from the GNOME session. Iirc this is how elementary OS, Endless OS, and Ubuntu handle(d) it, so you could always get a stock GNOME session without conflicting default settings.