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During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (12 children)

The entire Ublue project is freaking amazing. But Bazzite finished off my distrohopping. I work by day and game by night. Bazzite has eliminated all maintenance tasks for me. It just works. It makes things so damn easy. Also, the Ublue CI/CD builds is crazy cool. It allows them to focus on the important stuff, while all the chores are done automatically. Truly amazing stuff. I also heard lots of praise about the dev oriented spin: Bluefin.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've tried bluefin and it felt like when you turn on someone's old computer they forgot to erase before giving to you, there was just so much useless junk installed. Are the other Ublue distributions a little more normal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ublue are based off of Kinoite. If you want something less "bloated", try that. You can even rebase from Bluefin to that, I believe.

Keep in mind there are two versions of Bluefin/Aurora. Regular, and "-dx" which is more developer focused with more developer tools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I know what they're based on, I use silverblue on my laptop. I just personally really disliked bluefin when I tried it and I was wondering if that's what all of the ublue images are like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Bazzite is pretty barebones, you add stuff using the first-run utility.

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