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What features would I be losing if I switched to GNOME?
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If you like and trust Homebrew for packages, yes.
I have to try it, am kinda suspicious but I guess it is a good distribution method?
I had never used homebrew before switching to bluefin. Honestly I still hardly use it. Most gui things I can find flatpaks and command line stuff I'll search homebrew, but just as easy to open Ubuntu distrobox and apt install or install a .deb
I love that everything is updating constantly. That you can roll back easily if you mess something bad. That all system files are immutable so. Also super easy to rebase from to bluefin to ublue to Aurora to Bazzite to kinoite.
I dont get why they push Ubuntu so much. I use a Fedora toolbox which works great... apart from the fact that there is no damn upgrade! So only rawhide possible, lol.
Rebasing and rpm-ostree are truly beautiful. And adapting to it, for example packaging stuff written to /usr into an RPM, is interesting.
I have at least 2 use cases (placing different SDDM launch scripts, SDDM themes and something else) that need to be written to the immutable directory.
I think documenting how to package "put script abc to /usr/foo/bar" into an RPM, or even automate it, will be lit. Will try to figure that out when I have time.
Lunarequest did this with sddm2rpm but only for that job.