Just how many of us are there?

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I really like these graphs but I have a color weakness and the blue-s are impossible to distinguish.

Could you in the future use a better colorscheme that is more accessible? Thanks!

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These numbers show that a lot of people (non-bluefin, et al. Linux users) still like to do things the hard way.

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People have been diving in, here’s some improved charts with thicker lines and colors. File issues in that repo with your feedback, thanks!

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In my opinion I’ll say that ublue/Bluefin/Aurora/Bazzite is one of the best atomic Linuxes that I’ll recommend and use myself after trying out most of the atomic distributions over the course of 2 years, seems to have a great future and a lot of development behind it!

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Thanks, yes the problem was solved :slight_smile:

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/7741

Please replace the graphs in the first post, the new ones are fine

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I’m still kind of surprised by how “low” the amount of Bazzite user is, despite how much it is talked about. Does Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and SteamOS have THAT much more users?

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Universal Blue is in thousands, Ubuntu is in millions and Google abandons everything that is not in billions.

But… Universal Blue has steep slope… :slight_smile:

Unfortunately everyone I tell about uBlue is clueless, I’m not really capable of explaining why this is such a comprehensive Linux experience, way more friendly and usable than both Windows and MacOS, is (i use MacBook for work and i was surprised how many little tools and apps I needed just to get it to work normally, also how many YouTube videos to do simple things like configure Sleep. MacOS Settings has become more puzzling than Windows Control Panel).

I think it all comes down to marketing. Google for example spend Billions (not millions) of dollars in marketing of Chrome. Not just online ads. I’m talking billboards in every corner of the world. Even TV ads. And ofcourse paying app developers to deliver Chrome with the installation of their desktop apps.

If you have any kind of marketing budget, it would make a big difference. Or a big partner/corporate customer. That would make some noise. Like HP delivering Bluefin on their low and mid tier consumer laptops :grinning_face:

Oh god, what a support nightmare.

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been using bluefin for a while now, used it then went back to ubuntu but just couldn’t stay, bluefin ruined me. it’s just such a nice set up. only thing that worries me is that it’s not nearly as popular as bazzite, so i’d hope that it doesn’t get kicked to the side and lose updates or anything.

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Now when images are set up and everything is automated, there is really not much of maintainance. Bazzite and Blufin have different maintainers, so no worries.

But what ever time brings, think like you will always stay at Blufin, but be prepared to move tomorrow, that means you should use flatpaks, brew and containers that are working just fine on other distros. I have set up this “philosophy” I was on Ubuntu to try to avoid specifics that work perfectly fine only on single distro. I could quicky move to Blufin, but I can return quickly too.

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Yes, this is inherent to using Linux. The good news is, there are always plenty of options. The one sticking point that made me stay with my previous distro through a few breakages was using ZFS. Once ZFS was added to Bluefin, the transition was fairly easy.

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always, i’m a bit of a hoper sometimes, so always ready. password managers are a life saver as well