Using mint doesn’t mean you’re bad at Linux using arch doesn’t mean you’re good at it.

Mint is the start and the end for a lot of people for good reason.

Fedora atomic I’m galactic mirror levels of plateau

No my lsblk!

No you ommited any kind of detail in your original post so we all had to guess to try and help. You’re still using xfce if that’s what you chose on installation. Pro tip install fastfetch open a terminal and write fastfetch and post the results under your future posts it’ll give us a report of your system.

Adwata so I’m assuming gnome I tend to use the open bar extension for customisation

Exactly that. It’s not the be all and end all for Linux, nothing ever will be and that’s OK. Some people have had a few issues, especially when Fedora was in the 30s. Just did a quick search, even this year some users reporting it borking itself. But like you, I have never had an issue, but when I deploy machines that are 100 miles from me, I don’t want to deal with that, same for my work machines.

Bazzite works really well for my living room PC, wife approved PS5 replacement. Again, for my personal gaming rig I don’t want to get home go to game and have to deal with some dependency issue. I put Bluefin on my field laptop because again I use it sporadically, and it’ll update on boot if it was cachyOS or workstation there’s a chance it could drift out of spec enough to bork.

So yeah I love the Atomics, but I was prob 90% the way there before Silverblue came about and 95% there when the Ublue stuff stated rolling out.

Like a lot of things Linux it’s not the future of Linux but its a future I think.

Security isn’t really one, but saying don’t mention stability is proving the point—Fedora goes to ten, but Silverblue goes to eleven. That’s like saying, “tell me why Arch is good without mentioning the up-to-date packages.”

For Bluefin, it had everything I was doing with Fedora and then Silverblue OTB, and then some things I didn’t realize I needed. Yes, you can run a container-focused workflow in Fedora, but atomics keep you focused on good practices. With Fedora, my system became a bit of a dependency hell with Python and npm packages; now I have a container per project that can either have its own home dir or just seamlessly integrate with my main system.

I’m the whole IT and dev department for my company, so I would often have dedicated VMs etc. for each focus. Now everything is just seamlessly in my system.

It’s a bit of a reset for sure what isn’t, but once it’s done you know you can just hit the power button and everything is there ready to go.

I’m getting into rolling my own spin at the moment for our thin clients as they only have 16GB of space, and that’s been really easy to set up. Now I have a trimmed-down Bluefin that comes packaged with Remmina, and I can deploy updates just by updating some files on GitHub. It’s really not more busywork, pretty much the opposite for me, my root is basically /var and anything lower level I don’t really need to be messing about with on a workstaiton. I have all my tools most out of the box. I have every language package esp elixir thanks to brew have you tried setting up iex on Ubuntu it’s dog egg. On bluefin, I just brew install elixir.

Gaming will always take the lead—gamers are usually quick to chase the newest and shiniest things. Bluefin/Aurora adoption takes a bit longer because developers have to adjust their workflows, and there’s still this odd stigma around atomics. People assume you “can’t do things” on an atomic distro that you can on a traditional one, when in reality it’s mostly the same—just a slightly different approach in certain areas. Like with Nix, once it clicks, the pros far outweigh the cons. Personally, Bluefin has made me a more organised and efficient developer.

I can’t upload the images for some reason but here’s the current numbers for the ublue spins

• Bazzite: 26k users -> bazzite.json
• Bluefin: 1.9k users -> bluefin.json
• Bluefin LTS: 40 users -> bluefin-lts.json
• Aurora: 1.3k users -> aurora.json

BTRFS + Snapper + BTRFS assistant has been pretty good for me

Debian users tend to just get on with using their computers and don’t make it their personality. Why you’ll only hear from them every 2 years.

This is the other way around

I’d advocate for Bazzite too as you mentioned you just want a start and go machine. With DAWS you’ve also got Ardour and Bitwig both have great compatibility and flathub. There’s also vcv and a few other great tools for music creation.

People copy and pasting from the wiki or gpt “pathetic”

It’s just me distro hopping sorry guys

A loud part of the community don’t like change or having to learn new things. Well regurgitate negative points from 15 years ago not based on their own exspirences.Have issues with small projects popping up all over due to it being open source. Weird for Linux users I know almost as if you don’t have to use anything you don’t want to in your own system.

Getting on for 2 myself so the early guys are def years

Docker and tailscale you can run multiple instances

How else can they afford to stream samurai cop 3 and other things you never asked? You guys need to support them in becoming the best corp they can be! They want to be big boys now.

Open dyslexic or Adys for my broken head

Tailscale is the simplest way I’ve found, this does become a bit finicky when it comes to friends and family but you can share a single device aka your Jellyfin server with them. This saves exposing ports etc.