Reviewing your Bluefin feedback!

[@wolfisraging]

Love the bluefin ecosystem. Really appreciate the efforts. Thanks for helping the linux community go in the right direction.

[@philipcollier7805]

Hi Jorge! Bluefin is beautiful work. I'm a convert from the Debian ecosystem and really like the structure and robustness of Bluefin. No gripes; it just works. Not just Bluefin, but the other Universal Blue variants are our path into the Linux future.

[@xxboxofmuffinsxx4252]

Honestly this is gonna be my first Linux distro once my new PC comes. I've got no idea why I think I'll understand any of this video, but dinos do be goin rawr

[@FunFreakeyy]

Your hat is fitting the wallpaper really good! :) I plan to use Bluefin in the future, but I've installed Bazzite for my sister and it works great.

[@eekpanggang]

Hey Jorge. Happy to find a project that I can use and I can contribute on. Hopefully we can all make Bluefin better together! :D

[@johnwestervelt1525]

Looking forward to Bluefin 40. Silverblue, at least for my Brother Laser printer, seems to have gotten the printing-flatpak issues corrected in that edition.

[@lwa.dev74]

As someone learning Linux ie fedora this project is awesome… your my favourite dev as you take the time explain agendas which even for new comers is really inspiring. I would definitely contribute to this project when my skillset is ready 🧑🏽‍💻

[@ominoussage]

I liked the stability and smoothness of Fedora. Tried using Bazzite recently but disregarded it because it has too many pre-installed software than my liking. Bluefin is the sweet spot of having peak Fedora condition while not having too much bloat. Love it!

[@kier_eli]

Hi Jorge! Happy to see a new video, I will get the popcorn 🍿 And probably add another comment when I finish 😄 Btw, your hat goes very nicely with the dinosaurs stuff 😆

[@kier_eli]

Well, I watched the thing entirely; and I'm very happy that the team is doing a great job of asking for user feedback! I will be keeping an eye on the update efficiency resolution. Thanks!

[@johnbergman955]

Hi, I use the main images and they've been great to me so far. I have completely mom-proofed my mom's computer with them. Good work. The GNOME rice question is interesting. Wouldn't it be possible to put this as an option in Yafti?

[@maxarendorff6521]

What DE is your mom using?

[@johnbergman955]

It's KDE. It doesn't look THAT different to Windows 7 which she was used to. You won't really run into any jank unless she decides to open a reddit account and browse r/unixporn and become a ricer (unlikely). To be precise, I run the kinoite-main image on her laptop. Every once in a while I'll run "rpm-ostree status" and feel satisfied to see that the computer updated on its own without any intervention.

[@raelovejoy]

Looking forward to installing Bluefin on my Framework 13 when it ships in August. Meanwhile I'm playing around with it as a VM in Proxmox and loving ever bit of it.

[@Trafotin]

On 10:49, there will be a faction of people who refuse to use VS Code because the Microsoft telemetry is enabled out of the box. Granted, if you turn it off, it stays off, but maybe this should be split into a recipe for people to choose either VS Code or Codium. Also if you are willing to have someone write about DaVinci Resolve, would be willing to do so.

[@JorgeCastro]

I'd love more content around DaVinci!

[@JorgeCastro]

The VSCode thing is there because that's our target audience for -dx.

[@5init]

I personally don't use bluefin but I look up a lot of software that bluefin uses like homebrew (I might be the minority of linux user that actually loves brew). Lot of the software you guys picked are interesting. Also I don't miss dnf. Not having to use dnf is like the best part of fedora atomic desktops lol.

[@JorgeCastro]

Agreed lol, but they're putting it back in anyway. The pristine image mode will always be the default and recommendation.

[@1FWBBCOnline]

I’ve had generally good experiences dual booting Fedora (ad company) on Mac hardware, both Intel and M-based. What would really make my day would be Bluefin on the newer Apple hardware, perhaps the way AsahiLinux has done with Fedora.

[@CowCatwithafancyHat]

I have absolutely loved my experienced with Bluefin but I could not stand the flickering and when it was based on Fedora 39, it did not have a progression bar on actions like copy or unzip :O I think the flickering cause was the Nvidia drivers. I will definitely come back later on, most of my friends want to get off Windows but everyone is using Nvidia cards. I am running CachyOS which is astonishing to me, a Windows user that don't know shit or wana learn much I just play games and use the PC for media consumption and this just does it better than Windows. Bluefin was a breeze of freedom which made easy to switch. Maybe now with Nvidia 555 drivers fixed the issue.

[@JorgeCastro]

Yeah the flickering is due to the Nvidia drivers on wayland. Your options are to use X or just wait it out over the next few weeks.

[@TheDGITA]

The thing that im missing the most on bluefin dx it is docker/docker compose support, ive tried to install podman manually but didnt really work perfectly for me; if there was a option in the installer to install and configure automatically docker it would perfect!!

[@markmihalik2939]

Docker is configured out of the box on -dx. It uses docker-ce On the non-dx images, you can layer docker using either moby-engine from repo or adding Dockers repo for docker-ce. Lastly, you can run docker inside of a rootful podman container (distrobox makes this pretty easy) and use volume mounting the docker socket and /var/lib/docker.

[@TheDGITA]

@@markmihalik2939 Where can I find the docker installation in the dx-version of bluefin? By default, I could not find docker installed, when i tried to install using patches, it only half worked, is there something in the bluefin installer?

[@JorgeCastro]

It's already on the image, you might not be in the docker group though unless you explicitly followed the instructions. Try `ujust dx-group` and then log out and back in.

[@MinaSchloch]

I think uBlues biggest issue is the dependency on Github, Discord and now Google Forms. this is simply not "near apocalypse capitalism" friendly. it is leagues more proprietary and less privacy friendly and autonomous than regular distros.

[@JorgeCastro]

We're the ones making it, we decide the tools we want to use.

[@bigpod]

reality is ublue is using tools where discovery and userbase is and good UX of course. Github what is there that is as discoverable and as nice to use, gitlab great not near as nice to use and not nearly as discoverable, discord what is there that is nearly as good as discord for community chat ABSOLUTLY NOTHING , and honestly google forms really doesnt matter

[@not-pedka]

​doesn't matter because they are proprietary. why would you use a proprietary apps on linux?

[@Malix_Labs]

❤

[@starkfuture1057]

There is this gnome extension called “system monitor” available in the Fedora rpm/rpm-ostree repository. I never could get it to work with Bluefin. But it works great if I rebase it to Silverblue. 😂

[@fabioarturo]

Thanks, Look fantastic! Bluefin is best. I use gnome and only flatpak. Was test my gaming on bluefin work fine.

[@maxarendorff6521]

I think I'd be great to have an atomic desktop with a more familiar Windows-like UI that you can give to your mom. Kind of like Linux Mint Cinnamon but immutable, with safe, automatic updates and stuff. I'm just not sure the Fedora base is perfect for that.

[@marcelbalciunas6016]

You can easily mimic Windows workflow nowadays either on GNOME (with extensions) or KDE (using system configs). I think KDE will be better by keeping the configuration tweaks through updates though

[@maxarendorff6521]

@@marcelbalciunas6016 Gnome dash to panel still doesn't have a normal start menu though and KDE is kind of mess. Too complicated for a boomer computer user IMO.