Cassidy James   1d 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   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?

Show threadCassidy 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. 😅
Show threadJorge Castro1d ago
@cassidy Can't you just fix the fonts? And turn off the other extensions? Going pure vanilla should be easy.
Show threadJordan Petridis1d 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

Show threadJorge Castro1d ago
@alatiera @cassidy Is there a good way to ship the upstream defaults and then ours as an optional set on top?
Show threadJordan Petridis1d ago
@jorge @cassidy I don't think so, I can't think of a way since the gschemas are a global compiled db that ends up in /usr
Show threadAdrian Vovk1d ago
@alatiera @jorge @cassidy You can drop in overrides at a dconf level
Show threadJorge Castro1d ago
@AdrianVovk @alatiera @cassidy Yo man maybe if we do dakotaraptor this way it'll give you just enough bluefin QoL but give you a default experience?
Show threadAdrian Vovk21h ago
@jorge @alatiera @cassidy So, https://github.com/projectbluefin/common/issues/221? 😋
Bluefin as a systemd system extension. · Issue #221 · projectbluefin/common

updatectl enable bluefin on a GNOME OS system would be a cool idea. Is there any tooling we could use to turn the combo of common, brew, artwork, etc. into a sysext? We've been discussing wether a ...

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Show threadMatt (It's really me) Hartley
@AdrianVovk @jorge @alatiera @cassidy Nothing to add, but obviously following closely with interest where this lands. :)
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