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?

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. 😅
@cassidy Can't you just fix the fonts? And turn off the other extensions? Going pure vanilla should be easy.
@jorge @cassidy oh good that you mention that. I actually planned to switch to bluefin after years with silverblue. Does one of you know if it has the same problems? I was hoping I would only need to disable shell extensions.
@ju @jorge @cassidy I got back to "standard" gnome by disabling extensions.
@hunger @jorge @cassidy that's good then. I was afraid I would have to hunt through settings to get somewhat close to defaults

@ju it's always @jorge who's arguing that gnome is the most best at canned customization anyway ... maybe bluefin itself could provide the "click here to turn everything off and go back to upstream mode" button? and by "button" i mean the script to disable all extensions and swap in a vanilla dconf profile

`./enable-boring-mode.sh`

@cassidy @hunger

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@matthartley/116366012662373062

@ju @jorge @cassidy @hunger

errr... sorry. i see this was already probably maybe potentially solved in another thread:

https://fantastic.earth/@matthartley@fosstodon.org/116366012714908551

(posting for anyone else who missed it)

@ju @hunger @jorge yeah extensions are the big obvious one, but there's a bunch of random gsettings that are also changed and that's what finally drove me away. I just want stock GNOME, as configured by GNOME.

@cassidy @ju @jorge I use gnomeos on my laptop. Works quite well, too. I wanted systemd-homed support and that does not work too well in bluefin. And its a bit safer as it verifies the filesystem using dm-verity before/while mounting it.

E.g. you have to give the password twice, and keep a non-homed user or bluefin goes that initial boot mode, asking to create a user.

@cassidy @ju @hunger "random gsettings"? which one, there's nothing random.