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 Hofer20h 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 Castro11h ago
@ju @cassidy Which problems specifically?
Show threadJulian Hofer11h 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 Castro11h ago
@ju @cassidy I'd like to know what's off instead of being told that things are just "randomly" broken.
Show threadJulian Hofer6h ago
@jorge At this point I should just see for myself. I should be able to rebase from silverblue to bluefin right? 😊
Show threadJorge Castro
@ju yeah but we don't really support it, there's things that won't apply like the flatpaks, etc will be your existing ones, everything in your ~ is untouched. Mostly fine I guess, hah.
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Show threadJulian Hofer6h ago
@jorge that sounds actually perfect. Thank you!