Bluefin vs Aurora

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I’ve been running Aurora (user) on my main desktop for a month and a half to two months, but now sadly it appears irretrievably broken for someone at my skill level. Plasma continues to crash shortly after logging in even using the image that worked yesterday.

I’m considering switching to Bluefin on my desktop after using it on my laptop for the past month. It will be a clean install.

It was my mistake to use the latest Aurora version instead of gts. That’s a mistake that won’t be repeated if/when Bluefin is installed on the desktop.

I suppose I’m asking whether Gnome is generally more stable than Plasma?

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Do you have a Nvidia GPU by chance? If so, I would say that GNOME is much more stable than Plasma currently.

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I am running an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060.

I have ordered a new pcie m2 expansion card. I have a spare 1 TB m2 card and will install Bluefin on it sometime next week.

I’ll be sure to keep three or four images pinned in the new Bluefin install. There’s currently three Bluefin images pinned in the laptop.

Thanks

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Only one image is sufficient tbh

Also yeah, using the stable channel would be way safer than using latest.
gts would be even more stable, but it is one Fedora version behind

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I’ve been checking in with Aurora from time to time on my old Thinkpad (gotta love the easy rebasing).

It’s hard to know what exactly is driving the problem, but I had some issues with the trackpad and intel display too.

GNOME isn’t hard to get your head around at all. Give it a shot!

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Fedora / Bluefin / GNOME / Flatpak just have too much in common. Even if I appreciate what KDE is doing, I would always use Bluefin on ublue.

When it comes to KDE as DE, not my favorite, tbh, especially on laptop. Coming from Windows, I need something less overwhelming, like GNOME. I also appreciate that DASH TO DOCK extension Bluefin has, allowing me to hide distracting elements, while I’m working in programs.

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It’s worth noting that GNOME Extensions are still totally changeable and it doesn’t break anything upon updates

My GNOME configuration is mainly Dash-to-Panel only displayed in overview + Forge which is a quite significant modified keyboard-based experience, and it still works after months of updates and channel switching

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I’m torn between the two. I set up a laptop for my 19yr old, who has only ever known windows (he spent most of his time at his mom’s house…)
I tried Bluefin, but I was afraid that it would feel unintuitive.

Does anyone have experience with young people on GNOME ?

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I am a young people (20 yo)

Is your child tech-savvy ?

Also, rebasing between Bluefin and Aurora shouldn’t cause much trouble, and should be simple to do

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Yeh setup gnome. Make a custom scriot to create templates to be available on right click. The gnome extensions do work very well on bluefin

If nvidia try to find out how to pin it back to 550 as 555 and 560 nvidia drivers as they are rather unreliable

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