@nosherwan I don’t much care about performance, wanted to play it safe and preferred the simpler port rules that Intel gave me. All of this tipped the scales ever so slightly in favor of Intel.
Awesome news! Bluefin and Bazzite are now community supported Linux offerings for @frameworkcomputer laptops!
Congrats to @UniversalBlue for the achievement. 👏👏👏 We're glad to see that our work with Framework and in Fedora Atomic Desktops is enabling other communities to thrive!
I know Bluefin Linux is supposed to have the “reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook” but what happens if you actually install it on a Chromebook? 😁
@owen@jaiden@s31bz Yep thanks to https://mrchromebox.tech/. I initially stuck Ubuntu 24.04 on it but thought I’d see what performance was like on other distros and I’ve wanted to try Bluefin for a little while.
I think unfortunately for the best experience I might have to go with something like straight Debian or Arch without any Snaps or Flatpaks or anything. It is not a fast machine and any overhead is quite noticeable. 😆
This release party we will be joined by our downstream friends from @UniversalBlue and @ultramarine! Contributors from each will be sharing updates from their projects. Happy to have them here as we try to be intentional with our downstreams. :)
@Corb_The_Lesser It is technically possible to have a live mode on Fedora Atomic Desktops, but that has not been implemented. It's an area where the Fedora Atomic Desktops SIGs could use contributions, but otherwise it's just not something they've been able to get around to.
Homebrew is now installed for you with the latest images of Bluefin, Aurora, and Bazzite. We don't have to strongly recommend installing it anymore because it's right there!
Homebrew is a great package manager especially for CLI apps. Give it a whirl if you haven't already.
Universal Blue is generally available today! We're out of beta and ready to showcase everything a Linux desktop can be. Our work has been to show how many problems in client Linux are already solved from the cloud native world. We hope you'll join us on this journey!
Bluefin is out of beta as well and ready for you to use! We merged Silverblue with all of the extra goodness you need for a no-fuss desktop experience.
All the codecs and drivers you need already baked in
Ubuntu-like philosophy behind UX design and feel
Grand Touring Support for the scenic route to the latest software
Atomic upgrades and rollbacks
It's the hotrodded Fedora install you always wanted. 😎
@UniversalBlue@LateNightLinux@jorge I really enjoyed this episode. @jorge your enthusiasm really comes over well! I do still pick up a hint from the hosts of “oh I can see this being really good for <some lesser usecase but not my “proper” computer>” with the subtext being that ublue isn’t a “proper” distro. It absolutely is a proper distro - in the sense of being a capable workstation, etc.
@pauldoo@UniversalBlue@LateNightLinux@jorge it's definitely the future. There's no doubt about that. Whether it's the present is up for debate and for me personally I don't think it is. I'm really glad that people are pushing the tech forward and ironing out all the small creases so that when I do move to a composable distro, it will be perfect. 👍