Cassidy James   2d 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   2d 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   2d 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 Castro2d ago
@cassidy Can't you just fix the fonts? And turn off the other extensions? Going pure vanilla should be easy.
Show threadJulian Hofer1d 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 Castro1d ago
@ju @cassidy Which problems specifically?
Show threadJulian Hofer1d 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 Castro1d ago
@ju @cassidy I'd like to know what's off instead of being told that things are just "randomly" broken.
Show threadJulian Hofer18h ago
@jorge @cassidy okay, I have it installed now. So far it is pretty much as expected, a few extensions are there and the monospace font is switched to JetBrains mono. That one is indeed bigger than the default font, which seems fine to me. Will check now if all the cool developer tools now, especially virtualisation! :D
Show threadJulian Hofer18h ago
@jorge @cassidy I wonder why you can't download an ISO for the developer branch directly. Didn't matter for me since I rebased, but still curious
Show threadJulian Hofer12h ago
@jorge @cassidy mmmh, the monospace font feels indeed too large. That looks out of place in some apps. This is especially noticeable with Fractal
Show threadJorge Castro
@ju @cassidy Just dropping our entire font diff is probably the best thing to do at this point, will investigate!
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