Cockatoos are up to something alright. Shredding my verandah railing.

Ublue will happily include media codecs, nvidia drivers, ootb hardware acceleration… the things you would likely do with a Fedora image - but Fedora can’t or won’t include by default due to strict guidelines on their project or legal concerns.

Side other niceties like ublue includes distrobox, which is commonly used in other immutable distros, but Fedora don’t include it.

It’s basically overcoming Fedora’s limitations as a starting point. And It’s not downstream, it’s more alongside Fedora, you’re essentially running Fedora with ublue’s optimisations plugged in. When Fedora’s updates come through, you’ve got them.

And here’s the mission statement https://universal-blue.org/mission.html

Well it’s a discussion in bad taste. I don’t really know how to explain more because this should be obvious already why people wouldn’t like seeing it.

I can present a report on an extremely low LTIFR right after a workplace fatality and watch as I never get to present data in that room again.

Turning around and saying “but it’s factual!” isn’t going to get a “you’re right. Good job mate”

Only those first 4 are within the ublue project. The others are just part of Fedora, different variations of Fedora immutable distro.

A ublue can be rebased to the Fedora images. So you could go from having Aurora to having Kinoite for example.

That repository of images you linked to you can get from the project pages. Like the Bazzite page will say “are you on handheld?”, “do you need game mode?” “Do you have nvidia?” And then link you to the appropriate version from that repository.

There might be deprecated versions in there, for example I know they don’t maintain the Surface kernel version anymore.

It’s gone from pressing eyes real hard to just touching the eye.

Their website has a rundown of each, links to each projects page, and notes on what makes ublue different.

https://universal-blue.org/

But ignore all the “cloud native” talk. It’s got nothing to do with end user experience and I don’t know why they still feel the need to highlight it.

Because your statement reads as “people dying isn’t good but this affects fuck all people”

It’s all part of the same project, Universal Blue.

Aurora -desktop KDE

Bluefin - desktop Gnome

Bazzite - gaming and handheld focused with KDE

I installed Bazzite on a desktop I recently gave away to some local people. I also used Bazzite for two years as a htpc before I got a steam deck. It was good stuff, never had problems with it.

Aurora is going to come setup with things like non-free codecs, distrobox, rocm stuff. It’ll make life a bit simpler.

I can’t say, my use case is pretty limited to cutting, noise reduction, amplify or de-amplify.

But for what I do it’s exactly what I got from audacity previously.

It was taken on by another maintainer in 2022.

https://github.com/tenacityteam/saucedacity/discussions/72

Do you remember the days before proton? Like the time I couldn’t play Terraria for months because they didn’t have anyone in their dev team who could update the Linux version to keep it working. The workaround was to get the windows version working through wine.

Using wine to play windows games is something we have done for years before proton made it easier. It’s a very Linux thing to do. Even some old ports were just using wine wrappers.

Tenacity is actively maintained, and they migrated to Codeberg instead of github. Just seems better all around to stick with it and keep avoiding audacity.

Brotato was the only game I played this week.

Do you play devilution x with trackpad mouse?

I always find the sentiment of “no updates, no downloads” to be not quite right in the context.

The chameleon likely would’ve been more at home with Indie/retro-inspired games. The games that have mastered the concept of ongoing updates without punishing the consumer.

Terraria and Stardew Valley in a state of constant evolution, still getting better 10 years, 15 years after their release.

Dead Cells, Dredge, Vampire Survivors, Binding of Isaac, Grim Dawn, No Man’s Sky, Brotato, any number of other indie games that have lived on for years due either massive or incremental updates.

The solution works for the AAA games problem. “The game should be playable and feature complete at launch”. For these games, the DLC is often just cash grabs, looking for reasons to milk customers. The “gold release” state not being updated later requires the multi billion dollar studios to finish, polish and deliver.

But these are not the kind of games the chameleon would have been able to play, its wheelhouse would have been the indie games that started out as fun games and became something a hundred times more over time.

Everyone is already saying it, the best is the one you know.

Basically, all distros can do whatever you want. The one you are most comfortable with and find easiest to use is what you will be able to make do those things.

But if you’re a bit of a newbie and not comfortable doing much with your current distro anyway, then there are some safe bets I’d often recommend:

Opensuse tumbleweed is very up to date, has btrfs + snapper by default in case you break it badly. Updates are also less likely than arch, for example, to cause a break. Also has a lot of pre installed software that can be more difficult to make go away due to how their “patterns” work. At some point it’ll reinstall everything you remove unless you blacklist that software.

Aeon is an immutable version of tumbleweed but without all the pre installed stuff. The auto updates work spot-on (you’ll just see a message say your system is up to date) and auto rollback on next boot if an update does break things. Great if you want to rely on flatpaks and distrobox. The KDE software suite is all good on flathub too. (Aeon is gnome only though!)

Yeah. Didn’t expect more to pop up though. Already blocked two yesterday, this is another one.

Either this community is experiencing a bot problem, or a troll problem. That sucks either way.

Every time I hear new music now, I’m just gonna say “sounds like Offspring”

I have that exact same light fixture over my dining table

But what was the point of making a hole in your slipper anyway?