Q: Which is the best gaming Linux distro in the world?
A: The one that works for you. :)
Of course we're very excited about Bazzite and the unique ways it can address problems as a custom image of Fedora Atomic. However, we share lots of packages with other distros like Nobara and ChimeraOS.
As part of the Fedora COSMIC effort that is going on, the lead maintainer of that has spun up a pre-alpha, for-testing-only Fedora COSMIC image that we're hosting. If this excites you, consider contributing to make it an official spin!
The world of Fedora Atomic grows with BlueBuild, a spin-off of @UniversalBlue that is a newly independent project!
If you've been wanting to build or maintain your own custom image of Fedora Atomic Desktops, this may be another way to explore that interest. Instead of editing a containerfile, you work on a recipe that is then transformed into a containerfile to make the process of getting started easier.
Been curious about what it's like to use Bluefin? Here's a quick tour of it, walking through some of the main changes we make to Silverblue! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_yyyUMecwo
For more stability, the Bluefin custom image defaults to GTS (grand touring support), meaning that we hang back one release of Fedora. It brings stability in general, but specifically to all the GNOME extensions we use.
Between some tweaks to brew, the implementation of offline ISO installers, and moving to grand touring support by default, we're cruising toward the release of Fedora Linux 40 to come out of beta.
There is still one more exciting change that is being considered for down the line, but overall we're ready to go. 🏎️
Super excited about @kde Plasma 6 releasing today! It won't be too long before the beta for Fedora 40 becomes available for testing, which will include Plasma 6 for Fedora KDE and Kinoite.
For those looking for ways to contribute to KDE on Fedora, here's a ticket you can start with! It's for updating Fedora KDE Flatpaks to the KF6 runtime from KF5.
just ported Zeliblue from the old ublue-os/startingpoint stuff (AKA legacy-template now) over to the new BlueBuild stuff (https://blue-build.org)
from initial testing in a VM, it looks like a totally seamless transition on the client side, so that's great
on the dev side, each PR gets its own tag for builds that get pushed to ghcr, so I don't have to do local builds to test changes now. so that's nice too
The new offline installer ISOs are now available! No more workarounds to installing Bluefin or Bazzite! Tell a friend that it's now as easy to install these custom images as it is for any other distro!
Containers are a big part of how uBlue and atomic systems work. Let your OS install be a stable host and use containers to cleanly tinker or manage applications no matter what distro it's packaged for.
If you use Fedora Atomic Desktops or Fedora CoreOS, this may be a neat account to follow as it's what we use to manage containers - an important part of how to use this kind of system.
So I recently ran across this post and thread by @vwbusguy, and I would like to try to address some of the questions/misconceptions/etc that come up in the thread.
If you have questions, please, ask. What we do with #Kalpa isn't identical to what #Fedora does with their #AtomicDesktops, but many of the concepts for the end user are going to be similar/the same.
@vwbusguy We see the upsides to the image based approach that #FedoraAtomic can offer to some folks, what the #ublue folks have going on, for instance, isn't really viable with our setup. It's all just a different way to approach a common problem.
uBlue and Fedora Atomic (shout out to them!) come with different expectations for how to install software. Whereas on most distros you install software any which way, with an atomic system there are ways that are more recommended than others.
wow it is spooky how well that upgrade went. im already done. there's nothing else for me to do
Thank you to @kde for having a graphical way of upgrading! It was a pleasant surprise when I saw I didn't have to continue this process in the terminal!