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Not against #Fedora, #Linux, or even @UniversalBlue at all, but I don't recommend using Linux on laptops at all.

On desktops? Yeah, it works great. On Laptop, however, I've never got someone who said that his laptops works flawlessly. There is always a catch: webcams, ports, trackpad, speakers, suspend/hibernation.

I'll always recommend a #MacBook instead, over any Linux laptop that is not 100% certified to work.

#FOSS #OSS #Debian #Ubuntu #Arch #LinuxMint ##Manjaro #CachyOS #Bazzite #Bluefin

well more #vivaldi concerns for me. i'm rockin' #bazzite and #bluefin and they seem to offer a #snap and some #deb packages. the #flatpak in #flathub says it's x11 based.

nothing is ever easy.

Here's why open source projects should ensure that they setup the @linuxfoundation 's LFX Insights for their project.

I would have never known this. #863, top 50% on an index of the largest OSS projects in the world. Little #Bluefin !

People on reddit just guessing based on distrowatch or some other pseudo metric. The more we measure, the better the OSS map fills up.

We need that to figure out where best to invest in our projects!

#Bluefin is still performing well. I've been running it "in production" for the past couple of days. I think I did this install a month or two ago.

The CPU issue with the g/Vim Flatpak has been solved, so that's a major win this week.

I started working on a Ruby project in a Debian Trixie Distrobox with a custom /home, and it makes me remember how thankful I am for the things that Bluefin delivers in the image:

You don't have to choose between Distrobox and Toolbox because Bluefin ships both. The features that Distrobox offers are pretty key for me.

Homebrew is a great way to get CLI apps systemwide. I haven't used it yet, but I also haven't ruled it out.

I really like having tmux, htop and full console Vim in the default. I could get any of these from Brew, but I'd rather have the Fedora RPMs on the image.

Bluefin updates are on a weekly cadence, which really works for me. The system maintains itself.

There are a lot of little config choices, just like in every 'opinionated' distro, and it's nice to have so many tweaks in place right out of the box.

I'm still having issues with Bazaar not starting at times until I first kill the background process. It's not a deal-breaker, and there is a bug filed upstream.

The Vim Flatpak (which includes gVim) has been patched and no longer pegs the CPU. Excellent news for this #Bluefin user https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.vim.Vim

@passthejoe@snac.bsd.cafe TBH, it's magic how the base system, Brew and Distrobox don't step all over each other in #Bluefin. How do they do it?

The #gVim #Flatpak, which I am running in #Bluefin, has been grabbing a whole lot of CPU. I only noticed it yesterday, but it could have been going on a bit longer.

Until this is resolved, I'll be using console Vim, which does ship with Bluefin Stable.

I generally prefer gVim because I use the system clipboard a lot, and it's slightly easier with a GUI app. I also use the mouse a bit. That's the kind of Vimmer I am.

I can make it work with console #Vim, and that's probably better for me in the long run.

I would have moved to #Neovim GUI #Neovide, but my .vimrc does not work, and it would be a heavy lift to re-create it.

For a project like this, a Distrobox is a better (or more comfortable) choice than Brew because I can experiment with the development environment and keep all the Ruby config in the Distrobox's custom home directory. (How could I go back to Toolbx? I couldn't.)

And as with every new distro I try, I discover new apps that make life easier. In #Bluefin, I'm using Distroshelf to create and maintain Distrobox containers. Never heard of that one before Bluefin.

Again, I'm not a pro, so the "requirements" for my development environment are keeping things somewhat isolated and being able to work with Github.

My Distrobox distro for this project is Debian Stable, and it takes a lot of packages to set up a Ruby dev environment -- and I'm glad to have it in a Distrobox that doesn't affect the rest of my system.

I did some actual development in #Bluefin today, which is appropriate on what for all intents and purposes is a developer's distro/system. I looked in on my blogPoster repo on GitHub, set up a Debian #Distrobox and tested the code with Ruby 3.3.8 and all the required gems in Debian 13. I'm surprised that everything worked so well, though I did run into a few bugs to think about, and then made a few commits to update documentation and notes.

I am NOT a professional developer, and my five or so CS classes at community college didn't transform me into an OO expert. This project is relentlessly procedural, and it should/could be a lot less of a mess. In any case, I feel like something happened today. https://github.com/passthejoe/blogPoster

@jakesmolka@hachyderm.io Intel or AMD is ok. NVIDIA is fairly well-supported, but unless you need it for AI, I'd avoid. #Bluefin runs modern NVIDIA very well, but not older GPUs.

At least my older NVIDIA laptop has Intel graphics to fall back on. But for new hardware, you should be fine.

spending my lunch hour reading about aclmode to figure out why my #zfs drive is complaining recently. did something change on #bluefin, #debian or zfs lately?

https://forum.yunohost.org/t/transmission-upgrade-fail/41660/

any zfs gods know what i change to just make it work? setfacl failed while upgrading transmission.

Do I want an Intel or AMD based refurbished Thinkpad for Linux in 2026? Is Intel still the best supported platform or won’t it matter much anymore?

#thinkpad #linux #laptop #fedora #bluefin #intel #amd

After evaluating fedora atomic desktop #silverblue on a playground/travel thinkpad, I decided to rebase to #bluefin. This feels like the future of #linux desktops. I like the combination of bootc for a stable, reproducible system and the flexibility of flatpak, distroboxes and homebrew to run your apps and tools.

Next I decided to switch to bluefin on my desktop, too. Even the #affinity setup now feels way cleaner sitting site by site in a dedicated distrobox.

I have a USB optical drive, and I recently set it up in #Bluefin to rip CDs. I just did a few.

I'm trying to clean up and beef up my local music collection.

I tried three Flatpaks:

* Asunder didn't recognize the drive

* fre:ac was fastest by far but crashed regularly

* Sound Juicer was slower but got the file-naming format correct OOTB and doesn't crash

Key to the working ones is choosing the "right" optical drive out of the two in the menu.

#Bluefin is a great way to do Atomic #Fedora and #GNOME. I've been daily driving for a couple of weeks, and it's solid. https://projectbluefin.io/

@passthejoe I wish I could get real Fedora with the auto updates. I'm not a fan of Bluefin's use of VSCode and nonfree software.

#FreeSoftware #GNU #Linux #Bluefin #Fedora

When you think about it, #Bluefin is a super stable Linux system.

It's pretty much #Fedora under the hood but with a lot of nice defaults and config added so you don't have to.

It's all updated automatically. I don't even have to think about that if I don't want to.

One of my favorite "features" is the weekly update. Not daily. Not dependent on whether your laptop has power plugged in. A weekly instance update seems like the perfect cadence.

It's far less churny than "real" Fedora.

Hello @UniversalBlue! Is anyone from the team coming to #FOSDEM this year? #FOSDEM26 One happy #Bluefin user would like to say thanks in real life 😀

#Bluefin

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