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 threadJulian Hofer14h ago
@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.
Show threadTobias Hunger13h ago
@ju @jorge @cassidy I got back to "standard" gnome by disabling extensions.
Show threadJulian Hofer13h ago
@hunger @jorge @cassidy that's good then. I was afraid I would have to hunt through settings to get somewhat close to defaults
Show threadCassidy James   6h ago
@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.
Show threadTobias Hunger

@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.

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