Glacier Being. Metoh-Kangmi (man-bear snowman). Not abominable.
@ernmander There's a lot of technical stuff I like about the ublue distros (Bluefin, Bazzite, Aurora, ucore) and Bazzite in particular for gaming. I'll probably ditch all things atomic/immutable once I encounter another issue.
For instance: if Tuba doesn't work out of the box with playback of the videos you post on Mastodon, I give up and will never use Silverblue or any other atomic distro again.
Layering fatigue: it's real in 2026...
Replaced Fedora Silverblue with Bazzite on the old 'reXbox' (Dell Optiplex 7020, 8Gb RAM, GT 1030).
Only changed the wallpaper for now, but will probably remove some/all Gnome extensions.
@ernmander It wasn't me. I don't exist there either.
@ernmander From your experience, do you also notice a shift/trend towards KDE as flagship for most distros?
@ernmander I did the same, but noticed there's not much recent good content on YT. Ultramarine has dropped under the radar the last 2 years.
@ernmander @killyourfm In that sense Nick from the Linux Experiment is the slightly bearded French version.
@ernmander It's basically the same as Fedora Workstation. I only tested the live ISO in a VM, but for me that was enough to consider adoption...
I'm very impressed by Ultramarine / Gnome 43. It has some really nice extras. @ernmander Would recommend to give this a try.
- Cool boot logo
- Nice default wallpaper
- Pop Shell extension (tiling)
- Codecs + RPM Fusion pre-installed
- "Terra" repo
- Flathub for flatpaks
Considering to switch to this. Fresh install.
@ernmander I'm also reminded that I really like the Fedora package repositories. Maybe I'll give something like Ultramarine another spin, but I'll always return to base, which is Fedora/Gnome...
@ernmander I've only just installed in a VM to try out the installer. Very easy and convenient.
Mostly interested in stock Gnome without Fedora, but quickly realised that I don't really like the set of pre-installed applications for CachyOS + missing some integrated Gnome shell stuff (Software Center).
Similar to EndeavourOS. Better suited for KDE. Debian/Gnome was more to my liking and I guess Arch is not for me, unless I go full tiling WM with Hyprland or something.
Damnit, @ernmander, we're not supposed to play around with Linux after work.
@ernmander Looks nice and clean. Similar to Pantheon.
@ernmander Dash-2-Dock? What else? It's true for any vanilla Gnome by the way.
#Fedora Workstation snapshot. No flatpaks, just RPM and PWA (#Brave) for applications. Thunderbird is new.
@ianspy1 x220 it is. It has won by a single vote :) I'll start working on it when the winter is over.
@ianspy1 And by trying I mean testing it for a year or so.
@ianspy1 I'll probably will try it either on my corebooted Chrultrabook (runs Debian/Gnome now and will become a Nixbook) and/or on my Thinkpad x220, which currently runs the latest Omarchy.
It's more a matter of switching cost (time investment vs. benefits) as Fedora Workstation has been perfectly fine for me for the last 6 years, apart from some regressions during Fedora 42 (firmware, kernel).
The big squatch reminded me that maybe #NixOS is something for me, but I think I've become so attached to my faith and trust in #Fedora (specifically the package repository and security), that it's hard for me to even consider it as as an option.
I do like the idea though of having a stable atomic desktop Linux for the "non-daily drivers" machines I use, which are either running #Debian or #Silverblue.
