I just recently came across Jorge’s Youtube Videos which are excellent and help a lot. Curious if you guys have any other online documentation or videos you can recommend? I would like to learn this and stick with Universal Blue long term. I’m on day 2 of Bluefin (and GNOME) and got about 6 months experience with Linux.
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Welcome, @JFK!
I’ve been using Bluefin for a while now, and I’m also interested in that.
I agree that it would be beneficial to have foundational video tutorials explaining the specific mechanics of the universal blue ecosystem. This would help newcomers adopt good practices and encourage others to get on board.
Enjoy!
This terrifies me, what would you put in here? We’re purposely part of the cloud native ecosystem, not our own.
What would be in these videos?
Is it possible to jump from bluefin to aurora and vice versa?
No, you will have config conflict issues between plasma and gnome desktop environment.
We’re purposely part of the cloud native ecosystem, not our own.
Haha! Yes, I meant immutable. This concept can be quite different and disorienting for newcomers. Personally, I find that I learn best through YouTube University.
To lay a solid foundation, it would be incredibly helpful to see use cases that illustrate why and how to use tools like Distrobox, Devpod, and Homebrew.
I know you’ve created several demos, Jorge, but as an early-stage Linux user, I feel they are primarily aimed at seasoned developers and sometimes move too quickly through certain details.
A more advanced topic, later on, could be an explanation of layering, what it is, why it matters, and how to effectively use it.
I’m committed to Bluefin and hope to bridge my many knowledge gaps, but I believe that this type of beginner friendly content would significantly accelerate my learning.
I’d love to hop on a call with you to discuss this further, and I’d be happy to help build a roadmap for a first video! 
I don’t understand how, there’s zero reason to know any of this. It’s a device, I turn it on, I turn it off. If people think that they’re supposed to know this then I’m clearly failing at my job lol. What’s odd about the concept?
Part of the reasons we chose these tools is because they are well documented.
We’re the “quest givers” in this video game. I have no idea if you want or need distrobox, I don’t personally use it anymore. Stuff like that is almost always your path to choose and the best way to do that is to go dive into it. Then that’s one quest done, you move to the other…
This one is easy, we don’t support that. 
I’m committed to Bluefin and hope to bridge my many knowledge gaps, but I believe that this type of beginner friendly content would significantly accelerate my learning.
We’re not a distro, there’s no “Hitchhiker’s Guide to Bluefin” because it’d just be the docs of all the upstream projects stapled back to back. The docs are designed to be read once, and referred to on occassion if you ever find yourself needing to do maintenance. If you find yourself “Using Bluefin” instead of using your apps, then whatever is causing that is an issue that we can hopefully fix.
And for things like homebrew, there’s MILLIONS of homebrew users, we’re just the taxi that got you there. We’re the delivery people.
The docs are written in order on purpose, if someone were to just record a video going through each page that’d be useful for folks. You don’t need my permission, go for it!
And lastly, it comes down to the vibe. I’m not the kind of person who sits in his new car and reads the manual to try to figure it out, I put it in sport mode and I punch it.
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I’ll admit, I didn’t even read the documentation before I posted this. Idk how I missed it. Had some issues in the beginning and finally figured out how to rollback which so far seems to have fixed it.
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Yes, I jumped right in back then occasionally referring to the docs, but now I feel I need to go back to it in more details. Thanks Jorge
I think j0rge gave some good answers, but I want to know:
@JFK Do you want to learn more about bluefin to solve some particular problems, to enable/discover some new features or are you just curious in general and want to learn more for the sake of learning?
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I want to learn Bluefin/Silverblue now so I don’t have to in the future. As I mentioned I’m new to Linux and while it is fun and overall a better experience, it can be stressful at times when things go bad. I had some issues and bugs when I first installed as some apps were causing issues and I was unable to open settings even after uninstalling the apps and restarting computer. Dumb me went straight to the forums without reading any documentation before or after installing. Did a rollback and changed my fractional scaling back to 100% and just increased my text scaling factor in tweaks. No issues since. I still haven’t even gone through all the documentation yet but will be real soon and once I do I’ll let you guys know if I have any recommendations to help a noob like myself out.
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Ok some thoughts on this:
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Hey Jorge, totally agree I just care about how to run my apps!
Thanks for the video 
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Not sure why you ask for YouTube specifically.
Instead. Just read.
This is a really, really good read (at least read the first page carefully, don’t scan):
https://docs.projectbluefin.io/
Google whatever term is unfamiliar for you.
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Grok AI is surprisingly really good with Universal Blue for a new person. Better then DuckAI/ChatGPT. I would use a VPN though.
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Dude, well you started it! 
Like it or not your YT videos are good and is what brought me here too. For most of us, at least at first anyway, YOU are the face of the Fedora Atomic Desktop world.
I share the sentiment. There needs to be something. Perhaps from the Fedora folks. There is a huge vacuum.
Folks now a days are just not used to chasing down and read volumes of technical manuals as was common when I started my career. And IBM has historically been a chief tree killer.
I remember ordering 3 different packages to set up a network stack on OS/2 2.1. What I got was 3" of manuals and 3 floppies. I just want to setup ppp to my ISP. Dang it.
That experience is what people are asking to get some help solve for. The Atomic desktop concept is a paradigm shift. And it is hard to make the transition. A little moral support in a video goes a long way.
I have no idea what the answer might be. But I concur there is a real need.
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You are the man!
I absolutely love it.
With 2.1 there were 3 different SKUs. Looks like the packaging got better with Warp.
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In the event of nuclear Armageddon, two things will survive: cockroaches, and IBM Token Ring cables.
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One of the first companies I worked for drank the token ring kool-aide.
That sucked a few years later as we moved to TCP/IP.
Love the memeories @JohnAtl .
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