[HN Gopher] Universal Blue is a new paradigm for the Linux deskt...
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       Universal Blue is a new paradigm for the Linux desktop and it's
       brilliant
        
       Author : jcastro
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-04-17 20:24 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | ttctciyf wrote:
       | > the command was:
       | 
       | > sudo rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-
       | registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:38
       | 
       | > After the process was completed, I rebooted, logged in, and saw
       | a completely different desktop environment.
       | 
       | Interesting idea. Hopefully it will have diff, and maybe checkout
       | --force as well!
       | 
       | I wonder what the possibilities are for other choices than
       | desktop environment - audio stack, maybe? - and how hard for the
       | maintainers a multiplicity of these would be?
        
         | gowld wrote:
         | > rebooted
         | 
         | why would this be necessary for a desktop env?
        
       | kangalioo wrote:
       | What's the difference to just installing a different desktop
       | environment?
       | 
       | The author tries to explain this by portraying installing a new
       | desktop environment as impractical:
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       | > First, I tried KDE Plasma but was quickly reminded why I didn't
       | much care for that desktop environment (it's too much like
       | Windows). Then I tried Enlightenment, but that environment didn't
       | much care for Wayland, so it was a no-go. I was going to install
       | standard GNOME, but that would break Pop!_OS. Pantheon? Nope.
       | 
       | But it seems unconvincing. Universal Blue is neither going to fix
       | the author's distaste for KDE, nor that Enlightenment doesn't
       | support Wayland. And the fact that GNOME and Pantheon cannot be
       | installed on Pop!_OS doesn't mean we need yet another whole new
       | distro - just choose an existing distro that _can_ install new
       | desktop environments! I know Arch can, and probably its
       | derivatives and many other popular distros too.
        
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