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 Castro23h ago
@cassidy Can't you just fix the fonts? And turn off the other extensions? Going pure vanilla should be easy.
Show threadJulian Hofer12h 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 threadJorge Castro4h ago
@ju @cassidy Which problems specifically?
Show threadJulian Hofer4h ago
@jorge @cassidy that's what I tried to figure out from Cassidy, but if one GNOME's designer thinks many things look off, then I'd probably stick to Silverblue and my overlays 😅
Show threadJorge Castro
@ju @cassidy I'd like to know what's off instead of being told that things are just "randomly" broken.
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Show threadpassthejoe3h ago
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I run Bluefin because it makes all the changes I wish Silverblue would make.
Show threadJorge Castro2h ago

@passthejoe @ju @cassidy And like fundamentally to me it's all about numbers. People will argue about preferred settings all day long, we're nerds we'll do that.

But also there's millions of ubuntu desktops out there and it's just fine - there's way more broken things in linux than people's panel configurations, etc.

I'm in the "that's clearly working better than most of the competitors I think I'll go with that." camp.

It hurt on the inside whan having to move the dock to the bottom lol.