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I don't understand what this is.

Is it another Linux distro? Does the OS live on my hardware or not?

It’s closer to a spin of Fedora than a completely different distro because it uses Fedora silverblue with some options about what should be installed by default (including drivers).

Different desktop environments are available, but gnome is the default.

With an Ubuntu user-space...

thanks to distrobox

> Is it another Linux distro

yes

> Does the OS live on my hardware or not

yes

Feels like just Fedora Silverblue with some extra packages installed by default. Haven’t tried it yet but not really interested.

> Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue. The best of both worlds: the reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook, with the power of a GNOME desktop.

So what does that mean?

How is it like a "Chromebook"? Are they selling a piece of hardware? If not, then how is the comparison apt?

For example, it would be a weird thing to say "compare Ubuntu 23.x.x with a Chromebook, which one should I use?" because one is an OS and one is a hardware + OS combo, with the hardware manufactured by multiple different companies.

Has a distro Cloud-nature?

This is the most serious question of all.

If you say yes or no,

You lose your own Cloud-nature.

same principles, Buzzword, Excitement

This is clearly a reference I don't understand lol

Zen Buddhism reference: A monk asked Zhaozhou, 'Does even a dog have Buddha Nature?'

no project bluefin doesnt sell a piece of hardware but chromebook is far more known as a technology then the operating system it runs ChromeOS(based on gentoo) so its wording targeted at layman

Chromebooks pioneered seamless, image-based system updates for Linux. Updates are downloaded in the background to a separate partition and activated at the next system reboot. This works similarly but using ostree instead of dual root partitions.

It explains, quite clearly, right on the front page. You don't even have to click. Just scroll down.

It most definitely does not. And I find that to be the case with a lot of the things posted here.

I have no idea what to say to you because it absolutely does. Scroll down.

Nowhere do they explain what "cloud-native" means. It does seem to run on local hardware, so I'm unsure what the even mean by "cloud".

To give another data point: I’m familiar with that project and the parent’s project but I also agreed with you.

I would have no idea what that project is just looking the website.

It’s a immutable distro, and that particular flavor is more opinionated on what package is installed at first.

Cool birds picture tho

Cloud native is a set of principles with which you develop and build software to make it less likely to break and be more conducive to rapid iteration(In theory you dont even need to deploy your app to cloud to be cloud native) ublue and project bluefin just cherry picked those principles that make sense for a desktop OS to try and bring what cloud native did for server world into desktop linux and hopefully make it not suck.

one of those sucky things about linux desktop is package management which is just sad at best problematic at worst which is why image-based and flatpak first

Even if it does "say so clearly" you have quite a bit of data and users, claiming they can't find or are confused.

One can be right and die on this hill, or be thankful that you have the feedback to make it better.

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