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main		bluefin
	Project
14	Mentions	5
444	Stars	684
5.0%	Growth	22.2%
9.0	Activity	9.8
about 18 hours ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Shell	Language	Shell
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

main

Posts with mentions or reviews of main. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

Issue with updating Fedora 39 silverblue
1 project | /r/Fedora | 9 Dec 2023

Best place to start is to get rid of all the layered packages (RPMFusion) on top of the immutable image then swap to the ublue-Nvidia images that have all the codecs and Nvidia drivers built into the image itself.
Making the switch - what are the gaps?
6 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 9 Dec 2023

If you're using Nvidia I'd recommend using Fedora Kinoite with the ublue-Nvidia image that comes with the Nvidia drivers pre-built in. That eliminates a big chunk of issues with their drivers which is just building the damn things. AMD and Intel drivers are built into the kernel and require zero effort.
An Overview of Nix in Practice
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023

What you are looking for is UBlue, https://github.com/ublue-os/main.
It's a variant of Silverblue with Nvidia drivers built in.
Are there any major sacrifices you make to play on Linux over Windows?
5 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 13 Oct 2023

If you're using Nvidia, then install using the ublue Nvidia image which has the drivers built in, cause they can be a prick to manage otherwise.
Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2023

What these sort of introductions to immutable always fail to consider is the other side of the coin, image-based. I'm working on https://universal-blue.org/ along with many people much more skilled than me. We build OCI container images on top of vanilla Fedora Silverblue & many other editions with different desktops. Those images can then be booted to (or rather rebased to) using rpm-ostree. This is a more robust way of extending the system than layering, and the same changes can be easily benefited or inherited from by anyone. You can even make your own image really easily!
I think that VanillaOS and SUSE are working on similar things, but we're not an OS project, just a downstream from Fedora. Fedora's full support is underway but with what's already working perfectly our methods are already IME some of the most robust and easy ways of delivering Nvidia drivers for example.
Again? :(
1 project | /r/Fedora | 15 Jun 2023
Troubleshooting Nvidia driver installation
3 projects | /r/Fedora | 20 Apr 2023
I want to reinstall Fedora with proper NVidia Drivers. Please guide!
1 project | /r/Fedora | 14 Apr 2023

Download: https://github.com/ublue-os/main/releases/tag/v1.1.8
Video thumbnails doesn't work in fedora silverblue 38
1 project | /r/Fedora | 13 Apr 2023
What are some post install tips/commands yall would recommend for f37 workstation running on a ThinkPad x280 (mostly on battery)?
4 projects | /r/Fedora | 5 Apr 2023

bluefin

Posts with mentions or reviews of bluefin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.

Project Bluefin Linux
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2023

Even if the particular script is not used, the just file there is actually much worse.
Literally everything is running scripts directly from the internet, without any version pinning or check summing.
There is no way to run the same build twice and have any confidence that the result was the same.
https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/blob/41bdf294c20a3903f4a...
Wow - Ubuntu is so much more "batteries included" - any other distro like this?
2 projects | /r/linux | 9 Jul 2023

Universal Blue is very specifically a "batteries included" Fedora-based distribution, and one of their image also very specifically caters to Ubuntu migrants (bluefin).
Loved Ubuntu's extensions and themes but hated the base. Finally Ubuntu on my favourite base, Fedora!
2 projects | /r/Fedora | 6 Apr 2023

This could interest you: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin

What are some alternatives?

When comparing main and bluefin you can also consider the following projects:

ublue - A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.

ubuntu - Fedora Silverblue for Ubuntu Expatriates (Deprecated)

nvidia - Fedora variants with built-in Nvidia drivers

qualia-gtk-theme - A Yaru and Libadwaita inspired theme for GTK desktops

podman-appimage - Podman AppImage: A portable tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

ostree

ca.dcloud.ICAClient - Install Citrix Workspace + HDX RTME as a Flatpak application

openvpn-install - OpenVPN road warrior installer for Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Fedora

layering-examples

nixos - My NixOS Configurations

Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 38 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-38-Post-Install-Guide]

boxkit - Build your own custom OCI distrobox container