Can confirm, been using it since…launch almost. Was on Ublu Kinoite Main38 when F38 went into beta.
Residency9664@feddit.de 10 months ago
Check out Bazzite. Works pretty well on Desktop in my opinion.
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
khannie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Was on Ublu Kinoite Main38 when F38 went into beta.
I’m not even sure if you’re taking the piss or that’s a real thing
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
To clarify:
I was using Fedora Kinoite 37 already:
When I stumbled upon Jorge’s YouTube videos and his excitement for the Univeral Blue project made me have to join/try it out. So when the beta for Fedora 38 went live, instead of rebasing Kinoite to 38, I rebased to Universal Blue 38
- universal-blue.org/images/#38_57 (The main image since I have an AMD GPU)
Now I’m on Bazzite 39 Desktop:
The Full Image List:
Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I really like what ublue is doing and I recommend anyone check it out. But I feel like they most users won’t understand the jargon used to describe ublue. Images, container, cloud-native are all terms that might overwhelm new users.
Them being enthusiastic about how ublue works is awesome though and people who understand the terms can easily understand what it’s about. My two cents.
Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 10 months ago
I've been loving it on desktop, personally
null@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Welp, there go my weekend plans.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I tried Chimera. It doesn’t work too well.
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 10 months ago
At this moment in time, Bazzite is just straight up a better experience than SteamOS. Fedora backend with rpm-ostree is way better than what Valve has going on. And for Steam Deck, GNOME just makes more sense for touch interfaces.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Yeah, I was puzzled why Valve chose KDE to be the default desktop for a touchscreen device. Ultimately though I figured they just wanted a Linux desktop that would be more familiar to Windows users.
bear@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I would bet the main reason is that KDE is way more willing to accept features and contributions outside of the typical use case than Gnome is.
smeg@feddit.uk 10 months ago
You guys are using the touchscreen? You know there’s a perfectly serviceable trackpad you can use, right?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
The trackpad is the only way to really use the desktop, but if the touchscreen was better KDE still wouldn’t allow a good touchscreen experience.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The default software selection, especially when SteamOS 3.0 had launched, clearly showed that they picked a setup they wanted to use for themselves (my setup is heavily customized by now but I clearly remember VIM having been set as default text editor). If Valve was interested in Desktop Mode being primarily for touch use, they could go with Plasma Mobile instead of Plasma Desktop. Plain Gnome without any extension is not good to use as either desktop or handheld. The Gnome developers can’t even make up their mind which shell to use for touch devices because they literally have two competing ones (Phosh and Gnome Shell Mobile).
woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bazzite defaults to Plasma for Desktop Mode just as SteamOS. According to universal-blue.org/images/bazzite/installation/ Gnome is only the 4th installer choice.