Celebrating Three Years of Universal Blue

Guys, I’m happy you enjoy ublue.
Kindly read the following and consider:

I’ve been running Aurora for about a month and love it so far. I generally keep Plasma pretty stock without much tweaking.

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Congrats and thank you for all the work that has been put into this project! The passion really shows.

I grew up personally and professionally in the Wintel world. Every couple years I’d make an earnest attempt to give Windows the boot, but I always came crawling back after inadvertently destroying whatever distro I’d loaded on to my primary rig. Between the Universal Blue project and Valve’s efforts with Proton, I think this is finally the year of Linux for me.

Had to go with that McLaren orange bezel on my FW13 too :wink:
Bluefin on the Framework (best integration with the FW13 of any OS including Windows)
Bazzite on the desktop

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A little late to the party and in the middle of setting up a workspace, but wanted to share a screenshot of what I have set up on my Thinkpad (viewing through an external monitor):

  1. Background: the green swamp wallpaper

  2. Gnome Extensions: Animated Dash2Dock and Forge

  3. Left: LibreFox with Tabliss extension using the Roaring Chicken image from Bluefin.io and Quicklinks/Time widgets

  4. Upper Right: Ptyxis with neofetch

  5. Lower Right: Obsidian markdown application with Bluefin wallpaper (through the Beautitab plugin) and Adwaita-GTK Theme

my appreciation for all the hard work on universal blue by everyone, really happy with this experience

– Stephen

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This looks so good, love it!

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Tossing in my gaming/work setup:

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I’m late to the party. Framework Laptop 13 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series and Framework Laptop 16. Project Bluefin and Bazzite reporting in.


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took a while because I had to order a birthday cake :slight_smile:


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I am late to the party as i have been on vacation but happy birthday ublue!

i will be boring and use my setup picture from a former bazzite buzz :stuck_out_tongue:


from top left to right
Monitors:

  • bazzite-nvidia test vm (gpu is passed through from the host for testing and the image is streamed to the host using moonlight
  • bazzite-deck tailored for my threadripper system (my custom deckstation image)
  • bazzite-deck running on my HTPC and streamed to my vertical monitor using moonlight for the picture (because it has a polaris card it was stuck on fedora 39 at the time of the picture)

Devices:

  • My travel laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad x250) running bazzite desktop
  • Lenovo Legion GO running bazzite-deck
  • SteamDeck running SteamOS for scale

Controllers (top to bottom, left to right):

  • 8bitdo Ultimate BT
  • Steam Controller (brand new)
  • Custom built DualSense5 (showpiece mostly) with back paddles
  • Gulikit KingKong 2 Pro
  • Xbox One S
  • PowerA MOGA (dont buy this thing, it feels cheap, although has an ok dpad but has the cheapest feeling triggers you can find, how they managed that idk)
  • Steam Controller with “joystick adapter”, heavily used with and without adapter
  • Corsair Scimitar RGB (for some reason it shows up in linux as a controller so i am including it here!)

Penguins:

  • The little one is hand made and was sent to me 2 years ago as a secret santa gift from Germany, it received a sunglasses dlc last year, i was not told the secret santa gift came with a season pass :rofl:
  • The big one is from Netherland and was also sent to me as a secret santa gift 3 years ago, it is wearing my goto sunglasses which i have used for the past 18 years.
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Fantastic post very informative…!

Wow, 3 years already?!

Would post a pic of my desk, but tbh it’s a downright mess and totally not photogenic at all lol

Keep up the amazing work!