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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Standard Bluefin is based on Fedora.

I don't get Universal Blue's desire to give slightly different flavors and entirely new name. With the non-LTS option, what is the difference between Bazzite Gnome and Bluefin? Preinstalled code editors instead of Steam and Lutris?

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You're hitting a problem I have with Ublue as well. I wanted to experiment with immutable distros last year, but Ublue provided extremely little information on how their different flavors actually differed under the hood. I ended up having to search through their forums for like an hour to find snippets of how their different when some people asked, but it was never comprehensive.

From what I recall, Bazzite had a few kernel optimizations for gaming, and received updates at a faster frequency than Bluefin, with one of the devs saying that Bazzite would be more likely to experience regressions due to it being more bleeding edge.

Looking at Bazzite's front page now, they actually seem to be doing a better job of mentioning what's unique about it than when I last tried it. But Bluefin and Aurora are still ambiguous.

[–] j0rge@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

What would you like to know about them? It shouldn't take an hour(!) to find something.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I started suggesting Bazzite to Linux first timers, simply because there is more stuff to find, should people hit trouble. Sure, they might not be that interested in gaming stuff but at least they can enter that name into YouTube and get up tp date video tutorials.

[–] CafeFrog@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

Not a bad idea :)