Hello,
I also was quite confused/disappointed in looking at the github package list not knowing what the variations are. This forum seems like the best way to at least start the conversation as to what it all means. Here is what I found with links.
They mostly are from the fedora spins, the naming is half mixed between DE+Atomic or having some sort of rock term (i.e. kinoite).
Going off of this list first:
- Silverblue - Gnome
- Kinoite - KDE
- base - No DE
- Vauxite - XFCE
- Sericea - Sway
- Mate - MATE
- LXQT - LXQT - also called lazurite?
- onyx - Budgie
You may see some old repos if you go searching on the ublue-os github, but they will point you back to this first list.
This list is mostly similar to the fedora registry, and it’s associated gitlab.
These images also can have variations for Nvida.
One missing from main is Cosmic, but that is handled on its own.
There are others that are also fedora spins but have not been made atomic or do not have much support. Such as cinnamon or i3.
After this you get into a different class of images which are more “feature complete”. They are generally the most user friendly in terms of installed application and use.
- Bluefin - GNOME
- Aurora - KDE
- Bazzite - KDE or GNOME
Bazzite goes into its own project with its own list of images. but within this scope falls into this category.
There is also a more experimental homelab type image with ucore. These images are generally more server based and meant to have zfs pools or network shares.
There are many other image variations such nokmods from the first list. This seems to be the difference between vanilla fedora kernel/modules and Ublue modifications.
There is also the Dx vairiants for bluefin/aurora which add more development focused features, easiest example being virt-manager. Bazzite is planning to implement a DX variant, but is still an open issue.
Everything else would fall as unoffical or custom created images. These are mostly community images with a noteworthy being wayblue which has a hyprland build.