Newest episode of selfhosted podcast talks a bunch about uCore and interviews Dusty Mabe from CoreOS if anyone hasn’t heard it yet Self-Hosted 149: Notify Thyself
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Bazzite mentioned at 0:22
“steamOS isn’t going to support general hardware, just use bazzite. steamOS should endorse bazzite”
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Bazzite mentioned at 6:48, and the presenter mentioned about trying Bazzite in 9:38.
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Jeff of Craft Computing sets up Bazzite in a Proxmox VM to use as a gaming server.
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Jack Wallen from ZDNet talks about Bazzite again in the “Choose the right distribution” segment, where Bazzite is one of 11 suggested distros.
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Hey! Tom’s Hardware reviewed Bazzite
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uCore on the Tailscale channel:
Pretty big channel - 4.2M subscribers. But I’d never heard of them!
Not ublue, but close:
“Others in Europe have proposed a European-organization-specific Linux, EU OS. This would be based on the immutable Fedora KDE Linux, Kinoite.”
On https://eu-os.eu/ is image (on left side of image is Kinote):
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Favorable Bazaar coverage, and Bazzite too.
Article is about ChomeOS and how to get something similar in FOSS:
“This is a more fault-tolerant design than SUSE’s MicroOS-based systems, which use the rather fragile Btrfs. It’s also much simpler than the Fedora Atomic immutable systems, including offshoots such as Universal Blue, which use the Git-like — for which, read “fearsomely complex” — OSTree.”
Not specifically Blufin, but “brothers in law” immutable distros.
“Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin’s atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?”
I don’t get this last podcast, the review feels like they’re reviewing a totally different thing lol.
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I am a one-month newbie to Bluefin, but to my ear the 50 day user was very positive on both Bluefin and Universal Blue.
They did however totally obfuscate the base and DX distinction, missed the extensive support in DX for Docker, dissed Brew without explaining what they have needed as developer or user that isn’t available in Brew and unsuitable to install in an Ubuntu or Arch container. They failed to communicate the idea that the use of GNOME with Bluefin’s default configuration is intended to be familiar to folks coming over from a MacBook.
As an aside, I don’t agree with your framing that Bluefin is not a Linux distribution. Bluefin is very much an opinionated take on Linux ISOs for clients, and as a Windows guy who moved from a multi-year Manjaro-Plasma installation to Bluefin, I have rapidly developed some deep respect for your opinions.
As a mostly Windows guy using Bluefin, I have been amazed at the depth of the Flatpak library and the ease of discovery and installation. Three fourths of the apps I actually use on Windows (often installed via Chocolatey) are available as Flatpaks. and the discovery, installation, and updates are with vastly lower impedance. Like the podcast guys , I was initially skeptical of Brew-for-Linux, but my experience so far has been very positive, enhanced by your recent highlighting of the Bold Brew port to Linux.
Yeah and I think people miss how popular homebrew is on Linux, we’re a drop compared to Ubuntu, who is the only Linux in the millions:
And also I think there’s a clear “this is how linux people see the world” and forget that the Linux desktop is a tiny minority compared to all of open source put together.
I think the package conversation was interesting because it was some contest to see what repo had the most cli apps or something?
Which sounds fun, but also something I don’t use my computer for, homebrew is probably the #1 feature people tell me they love IRL at KubeCon, and those people are the infrastructure people so that’s a win in my book. All the deployable stuff is containerized anyway.
Our version of the CLI contest is delivering a nice curated Bluefin CLI experience with a collection of tools shipped and configured together because it’s nice to have all that stuff.
What the heck is “26”? Docker version?