A post from @jorge on Homebrew in Linux, which is the present and future for Ublue:

https://www.ypsidanger.com/homebrew-is-great-on-linux/

#UniversalBlue #Ublue #Bazzite #Aurora #Bluefin #Homebrew

I'm trying this now on Bluefin LTS:

Homebrew is just as good on Linux as it is on Mac
https://www.xda-developers.com/homebrew-good-linux-mac/

#homebrew #linux #ublue #universalblue #bluefin

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.

#Bluefin #Ublue #UniversalBlue

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.

#ublue #UniversalBlue #Bluefin #Atomic #Aeon

@daniel #Aurora can be used instead of #Bazzite. #ublue has built several versions and Aurora is their workstation version, I believe.

My HP laptop running #Bluefin has stopped waking up properly from when suspended. The screen stays blank while the system itself appears to resume. I've tried booting to live versions of Ubuntu and Fedora and can't reproduce it. I've now rebased to #Bazzite which also doesn't have the problem. Besides all the gaming stuff (which I don't really need), Bazzite seems to have everything I need. I'll keep the Bluefin image pinned for now...

#ublue #universalBlue

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!

#bluefin #ublue

@sfalken Looks like #ublue #bluefin does this too https://docs.projectbluefin.io/administration#system-updates

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.

https://universal-blue.org/

#ublue #bluefin

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I booted into the Universal Blue Bluefin LTS live desktop, and I'm here now.

#UBlue #Bluefin #Atomic

@fosstastic

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

The end of the year is nearing and I've updated my blog with some details on my latest #linux setup #fedora #silverblue #ublue #bluebuild
https://www.davd.io/posts/2025-12-02-my-linux-setup-2025-2026/

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.

#Bluefin #CosmicDE #UBlue

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.

#Bazzite #FedoraSilverblue #UBlue

#Bazzite #uBlue #Linuxgaming #Linux One of the founders/devs of Bazzite responding to #GN Bazzite vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmQrpALS6Dw

La mise à jour foireuse de #Mesa sur #Fedora n'était donc pas un coup d'essai ☺️ un bug s'est (brièvement) glissé dans #composefs à un moment donné cette année, juste assez longtemps pour que je l'installe 🤭

Malheureusement il renforce le côté "immutable" de #uBlue, car il en bloque tout simplement les mises à jour 🙃 c'est réparable mais quelle tannée.

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.

@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.

#ublue people: this computer currently uses rpm-ostree + ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/silverblue-main:42. Can I migrate in-place to bootc without reinstalling? It's surprisingly hard to DuckDuckGo for!

Got this MSI laptop upgraded to #Bazzite 43 - nice, quick, and easy!

#Fedora #Linux #UniversalBlue #UBlue