We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux - built with cloud native technologies - that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.
Bluefin (the non-dx version), and in some ways Bazzite, is kind of like our examples of a market that we are trying to reach that I think distributions have been underserving this entire time, which is people who don’t wanna know or care about Linux at all.
You probably know this, but there’s also a bunch of Linux powerusers (like me) who enjoy running Bluefin (without -dx, because I don’t care about Docker and VS Code). We might not be the primary target audience, but Bluefin is still attractive to us, because organizing software deployments with containers and Linux namespaces makes sense. I’m not even a huge cloud-native nerd, but I think Linux namespaces are cool and they are something that is fun to play around with. Basic Bluefin comes with Podman, buildah, bubblewrap, quadlets and distroboxes and that gets you a long way.
I totally agree with you @j0rge on how the non-technical user feels about using Bluefin-DX or Bazzite: it really feels like a super system administrator came home and set up my computer for development work!
