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Instead of linking to articles full of buzz-words, can you explain what’s the difference between this distro and Fedora Silverblue?
I’m guessing the “spirit of Ubuntu” means they took Silverblue and preconfigured some stuff.
I linked to it, here it is again: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=41#features-9
And the previous link was directly to the source code of the image.
Tbo, I lost interest in it.
I’ve spend a good amount of time on it trying to figure out what the project is about. Even after clarifying the confusion and multiple people asking for clarification from your side and multiple upvotes, there’s nothing from your side. You reference to something that has been saying nothing for many people.
You didn’t even clarify the magical wonders of ubuntu in your project. I kind of feel insulted if I think properly about it.
Delete following part of your post
Bluefin
A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue. It strives to cover these three use cases:
For users it provides a system as reliable as a Chromebook with near-zero maintenance, with the power of Ubuntu and Fedora fused together. For developers we endeavour to provide the best cloud-native developer experience by enabling easy consumption of the industry’s leading tools. These are included in dedicated bluefin-dx and bluefin-dx-nvidia images. For gamers we strive to deliver a world-class gaming experience via Flathub or bazzite-arch “Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.” - Stephen Jay Gould This image heavily utilizes cloud-native concepts.
GNOME Software with Flathub: Use a familiar software center UI to install graphical software System designed for automatic staging of updates If you’ve never used an image-based Linux before just use your computer normally Don’t overthink it, just shut your computer off when you’re not using it Should I trust you? This is all hosted, built, and pushed on GitHub. As far as if I’m a trustable fellow, here’s my bio. If you’ve made it this far, then hopefully you’ve come to the conclusion on how easy it would be to build all of this on your own trusted machinery. :smile:
The difference between silverblue and your image is that silverblue is signed by fedora and yours isn’t. There’s no reason for anyone but you to use the image. Even if I were to us tailscale and fish, I’d be better off with silverblue.
Here maybe it’s easier if I just paste in the differences:
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Ubuntu-like GNOME layout.
- Includes the following GNOME Extensions:
- Dash to Dock - for a more Unity-like dock
- Appindicator - for tray-like icons in the top right corner
- GSConnect - Integrate your mobile device with your desktop
- Blur my Shell - for that bling
- Includes the following GNOME Extensions:
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GNOME Software with Flathub:
- Use a familiar software center UI to install graphical software
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Built on top of the the Universal Blue main image
- Extra udev rules for game controllers and other devices included out of the box
- All multimedia codecs included
- System designed for automatic staging of updates
- If you’ve never used an image-based Linux before just use your computer normally
- Don’t overthink it, just shut your computer off when you’re not using it
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Starship is enabled by default to give you a nice shell prompt
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Solaar - included for Logitech mouse management along with
libratbagd -
Tailscale - included for VPN along with
wireguard-tools -
zshandfishoptional -
Built-in Ubuntu user space
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<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>Alt</kbd>-<kbd>u</kbd> - will launch an Ubuntu image inside a terminal via Distrobox and your home directory will be transparently mounted for the Ubuntu image to access
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A BlackBox terminal is used just for this configuration
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Use this container for your typical CLI needs or to install software that is not available via Flatpak or Fedora
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Optional ubuntu-toolbox image with Python, and other convenience development tools.
just distrobox-bluefinto get started. To configurejustfollow the guide. -
Optional universal image with Python, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, Java, C#, F#, .NET Core, PHP, Go, Ruby, and and Conda.
just distrobox-universalto get started -
just assembleshortcut to declaratively build distroboxes defined in/etc/distrobox/distrobox.ini -
Refer to the Distrobox documentation for more information on using and configuring custom images
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GNOME Terminal - <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>-<kbd>Alt</kbd>-<kbd>t</kbd> - will launch a host-level GNOME Terminal if you need to do host-level things in Fedora (you shouldn’t need to do much).
The difference between silverblue and your image is that silverblue is signed by fedora and yours isn’t.
Of course Fedora only signs Fedora images, we sign our own images.
There’s no reason for anyone but you to use the image. Even if I were to us tailscale and fish, I’d be better off with silverblue.
Then use Silverblue! If you don’t understand the features of something then you might not be the target audience!
