#ublue — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ublue, aggregated by home.social.
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Using homebrew for the first time on Bluefin I immediately hit a snag trying to install 'cowsay' (homebrew-installed perl vs system perl). This led me to try out Distrobox for the first time and it works like a charm.
New ways of doing things introduce new tools and methods. I'm approaching Bluefin with "beginner's mind". 🙂
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Using homebrew for the first time on Bluefin I immediately hit a snag trying to install 'cowsay' (homebrew-installed perl vs system perl). This led me to try out Distrobox for the first time and it works like a charm.
New ways of doing things introduce new tools and methods. I'm approaching Bluefin with "beginner's mind". 🙂
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Using homebrew for the first time on Bluefin I immediately hit a snag trying to install 'cowsay' (homebrew-installed perl vs system perl). This led me to try out Distrobox for the first time and it works like a charm.
New ways of doing things introduce new tools and methods. I'm approaching Bluefin with "beginner's mind". 🙂
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Using homebrew for the first time on Bluefin I immediately hit a snag trying to install 'cowsay' (homebrew-installed perl vs system perl). This led me to try out Distrobox for the first time and it works like a charm.
New ways of doing things introduce new tools and methods. I'm approaching Bluefin with "beginner's mind". 🙂
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Using homebrew for the first time on Bluefin I immediately hit a snag trying to install 'cowsay' (homebrew-installed perl vs system perl). This led me to try out Distrobox for the first time and it works like a charm.
New ways of doing things introduce new tools and methods. I'm approaching Bluefin with "beginner's mind". 🙂
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Universal Blue/Bazzite/Silverblue/other immutable Linux friends: (why) should I be using Homebrew?
I contribute to a handful of web projects that use npm, ruby, and probably other package managers. I’ve not really had a problem lately installing things the way those projects say to for Linux, but I keep hearing about people using Homebrew on Linux. When needed, I can also spin up a toolbx container and work in there. Am I missing something?
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Practically finished setting up Universix-Saigon, my Cosmic bootc image based on a solid Bluefin base. It's live on github at thesaigoneer - universix-saigon.
Many edits in applications, flatpaks and QoL, read up on it in the readme.md. Or just give it a go! -
Apparently a little toy image I made with my friends @valerie_tar_gz and @bri reached 100 users at some point close to new years! I've been daily driving Zirconium for a bit now and I'm having a lot of fun, works pretty well on my dual core laptop as well. Maybe check it out if you are interested :3c
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Some of it is the newish battery, but overall I'm getting pretty great uptime between charges (more than 4 hours) with Bluefin LTS on the 2017 HP Pavilion (Intel Core i7 7th Gen/Nvidia GEforce) laptop that is now running the boot drive from my now-dead laptop. The CentOS Stream 10 core of this system seems to be very solid -- and I don't have to worry about any maintenance, which happens without my intervention.
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We've just finished moving Bluefin and Aurora to a shared OCI container instead of using RPM packages for all of it, now you can do crazy stuff like Ubuntu-based Bluefin with the Bootcrew images if you want to :P Who would've though that not relying on packages would be a good idea, huh!
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A post from @jorge on Homebrew in Linux, which is the present and future for Ublue:
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I'm trying this now on Bluefin LTS:
Homebrew is just as good on Linux as it is on Mac
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Today is a "production" day with Bluefin LTS.
For me, production is a whole lot of Google Chrome windows with multiple tabs -- that plus gVim.
I do more of my photo editing tasks in the browser -- a byproduct of my Windows 11 work laptop. I carried the practice over to Linux and don't use gThumb and GIMP much any more.
But you can't beat a great text editor stuffed with helpful macros. For me that's Vim, and I prefer the GUI version for editing news stories.
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Having fun setting up Bluefin LTS. It'll get the daily-driver test when it's ready.
I still have Aeon on the other drive.
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Rebased from bluefin-dx:gts to bluefin-dx:stable this evening and I had to check the update had actually gone through by checking package versions as it was so seamless. I’m just so impressed with this OS!
@jorge you and the team have done an amazing job, really looking forward to seeing how this develops!
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@sfalken Looks like #ublue #bluefin does this too https://docs.projectbluefin.io/administration#system-updates
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I just did my first installation of a Universal Blue distro -- Bluefin LTS.
I'm looking for something "quieter" in terms of updates, and my laptop is from 2017, so newer kernels aren't going to help me much.
I was surprised to find that the Ublue images include a live system. I remember Fedora Atomic ISOs not doing that. You had to use a Workstation ISO to test compatibility in a live environment, then use the Silverblue image to install.
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Atomic systems like #FedoraAtomicDesktops, #HeliumOS, #uBlue or #NixOS with "does-it-work"-checks are great here.
Snapshots like in #OpenSUSE #Tumbleweed are a big benefit but not as useful
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My experience w/Bazzite has been so positive that I was about to switch my laptop to Bluefin, another UBlue image. I’m now hesitant because I know someday I’d want to migrate from Gnome to Cosmic DE, and needing to do a full reinstall for that is a downer.
Rebasing to an image that installs Cosmic over the top of Bluefin mostly works, but it’s not as clean as I’d like: there are a few errors that don’t seem to actually break anything in my limited testing. Maybe it’d be fine, or maybe it’d break at some unpredictable inopportune time, making it potentially less reliable than a traditional release distribution with a more proper install of Cosmic.
None of this is a criticism of Bluefin or UBlue, just acknowledging limitations.
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finally hit the biggest tradeoff I’d overlooked w/ublue Linux: most DE’s require some config in your user dir during initial install, which of course doesn’t happen when you’re just rebasing to a different image, so they strongly advise against switching DE. came up because there’s a systemd+gnome issue affecting standby behavior and I figured I’d just duck into KDE for a while until it’s resolved. bad idea, apparently! Bazzite has been a solid image for me overall, but there are tradeoffs to everything.
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Well it happened, moving away from #bluefin DX, Linux-native steam performance and some VR issues means I really need a rpm version of Steam...
Lucky for me it's one command to rebase to Bazzite DX, same dev experience with containers/brew, same updates, still #ublue ! What a great way to distro hop. CS2 performance went from a chunky 50FPS to almost 200 cranked.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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@mattdm @sozutovo @fedora Even in Fedora Atomic upgrades are not automatic. Someone has to press a button. In my experience watching people using any computing device, many people do not see or care about notifications. People will fall on EOL OS image for years unless you do yearly support.
So, I'd substitute #UniversalBlue in this response.
Lack of automatic updates is the reason #Fedora #Silverblue is not my first recommendation to beginners, preferring #EndlessOS or #UBlue instead.
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Amazing! The #Fedora #COPR is one way to try it, even on #AtomicDesktops like #uBlue
Some things that come to my mind:
- adjustable size
- padding to left/right so it doesnt take up all the screen
- nice show/hide functionality with a button, swiping, dynamically
- functional keys (Ctrl, Alt, Super, Arrows, Fn keys, ...) -
Switched to Bluefin DX over Fedora Silverblue and while everything was a bit more painful to customize for me because it has so much more stuff preinstalled and floating around in it, I will say once that was done it's been more enjoyable to use on the whole. I like using brew for CLI packages and flatpak for apps and that's all setup for me out of the box. Bazaar for flatpaks is interesting. It still feels pretty young but is worlds faster than gnome software. It doesn't feel as newbie friendly but that's fine for me and I specifically chose the developer focused version so I'm sure that has something to do with it.
#UniversalBlue #ublue #ProjectBluefin #FedoraSilverblue #FedoraP.S. Dinosaurs are rad!
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I restored Discover to my Bazzite install using a Systemd-Sysext. Essentially a sub disk image that is loaded during boot of the immutable system, that way you dont have to layer all the plasma components this would usually require!
Neat! No shade to the #bazaar devs
If people want instructions I guess I can write something up over the weekend
#bazzite #ublue #fedora #atomicdesktops #kde #kdediscover #flatpak #immutable #sysext #systemd
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This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.
Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?
#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming
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This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.
Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?
#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming
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This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.
Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?
#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming
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This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.
Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?
#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming
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This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.
Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?
#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming
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Bootc as a project is one with tons of promise and lots of community support. It's what is powering the next generation of Atomic Desktops, CoreOS, and Fedora IoT, not to mention all of the work that @UniversalBlue has done to show off everything that can be done today.
If you want to follow bootc more closely, regular updates from Fedora's end are shared here. :)
➡️ https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tag/bootc-initiative
#bootc #Fedora #FedoraAtomic #uBlue #Bazzite #Bluefin #Linux
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"You should just use #Ubuntu because it's the easiest one" - this is propaganda for #Shuttleworth and tells me you haven't tried any other distro - or that you use #Arch.
#LinuxMint is fantastic still, #Fedora is my go to recommendation, but with #uBlue and #Bazzite we see a new era of usability focused #distributions.
Add to that the fact that #snaps are a centralizes repository with no third party vendors, and you've got a #vendorlockin.
Ubuntu is the #anticonsumer distribution as a result.
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There are five types of users who may try Linux instead of Windows, one a couple of distros for each one of them.
1. Complete newbies: ZorinOS
2. Students and office workers: VanillaOS
3. Windows refugees: Mint
4. Content creators: Mint, Fedora Workstation
5. Programmers: Universal Blue (Fedora Atomic)Go ahead, change my mind.
#Linux #ZorinOS #VanillaOS #Debian #Container #OCI #LXE #Containers #LinuxMint #Mint #Fedora #FedoraWorkstation #UniversalBlue #uBlue #Bazzite
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Warum muss es immer Windows sein? Die Uni plant, tausende PCs zu verschrotten, nur weil sie nicht mit Windows 11 kompatibel sind. Das ist nicht nur verschwenderisch, sondern auch frustrierend! Es gibt Fans von Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org) und wir fragen uns, warum das URZ nicht einfach eigene Images erstellt und die Software-Auswahl anpasst? Es gibt so viele bessere Alternativen! Gemeinsam für eine nachhaltige IT-Zukunft! #CloudNative #NoWindows #LinuxConquer #ublue #nachhaltig
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but #System76 needs to rebase #PopOS. No shot, the current stable is 22.04... 22... 04.
#Ubuntu #Linux cannot be trusted, because snaps - and Shuttleworth - which means they have to go fully #Debian, which is respectable, but hear me out here...
I can hear you booing from the back, and I can feel the glee of @BrodieOnLinux , but even though I like #Fedora I think competition is good and that #uBlue has that vector sown up. Also, #IBM.
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#Fedora really tipped #Ubuntu from its perch, and #uBlue as well as #Bazzite are examples of that.
Don't get me wrong, #Mint and even #Arch are still the everyman distros, but point me to another #libre distribution that has pushed the envelope as much as Fedora has.
#Nouveau, #Wayland, #PipeWire, #Ostree, etc. When it comes to #Linux, Fedora is a technology leader, and its users & organizational governance is key to that success.
Fedora Linux Turns Over A New Leaf
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4DyBUC0jIGE&si=OZLR_qWr8cL0MVG0 -
#introduction hiiiiii fedi
just moving my account from @[email protected]
i currently post art on @[email protected]
so this account is mostly meant for more general use (though i do reserve the right to post art here too)topics i might be talking about:
- linux
- my project @bluebuild
- universal blue
- fedora atomic and other next-gen distros
- ui/ux and web dev / design
- generative art
- selfhosting
- whatever else i may tinker with..#fedora #atomic #fedoraAtomic #BlueBuild #ublue #uiux #webdev #generativeart #selfhosting #linux #foss #tech
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Here's an awesome, short overview of what Universal Blue, Bluefin, and @bluebuild are! Thanks to @Akzel for putting this together. :)
If you want something short to share with friends as you're trying to explain all this stuff, this video is a nice starting point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyMqCZYNPzE#uBlue #Bluefin #BlueBuild #FedoraAtomic #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #CloudNative
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A quick overview of Universal Blue, Bazzite & Bluefin, and BlueBuild: https://youtu.be/GyMqCZYNPzE
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As an update for anyone who's interested: I since rebased to #Fedora #Kinoite after some amazing people from the #Bazzite Discord found out that there something seems to different on #Bazzite / #Ublue compared to Fedora #atomic when it comes to #Huion #tablet drivers (1).
On Kinoite it works out of the box on #KDE #Wayland in system settings! 😘 ✨
