Bluefin on my laptop
#uBlue
Practically finished setting up Universix-Saigon, my Cosmic bootc image based on a solid Bluefin base. It's live on github at thesaigoneer - universix-saigon.
Many edits in applications, flatpaks and QoL, read up on it in the readme.md. Or just give it a go!
Apparently a little toy image I made with my friends @valerie_tar_gz and @bri reached 100 users at some point close to new years! I've been daily driving Zirconium for a bit now and I'm having a lot of fun, works pretty well on my dual core laptop as well. Maybe check it out if you are interested :3c
Some of it is the newish battery, but overall I'm getting pretty great uptime between charges (more than 4 hours) with Bluefin LTS on the 2017 HP Pavilion (Intel Core i7 7th Gen/Nvidia GEforce) laptop that is now running the boot drive from my now-dead laptop. The CentOS Stream 10 core of this system seems to be very solid -- and I don't have to worry about any maintenance, which happens without my intervention.
We've just finished moving Bluefin and Aurora to a shared OCI container instead of using RPM packages for all of it, now you can do crazy stuff like Ubuntu-based Bluefin with the Bootcrew images if you want to :P Who would've though that not relying on packages would be a good idea, huh!
A post from @jorge on Homebrew in Linux, which is the present and future for Ublue:
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/
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.
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.
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...
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!
@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.
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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/
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