Yep. Here you go:

https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template

It would only be more obvious if they used sock puppets, controlled by the CEO as he tries to use different voices for each one.

One of the bots even copy-pasted the CEO’s words as if they were their own.

Ah, I see. My understanding is that AMD’s raytracing is just subpar compared to Nvidia, no matter what system you’re using, so I dunno what positive performance changes you’d see either way.

GNOME is a bit behind Plasma.

According to the Arch wiki covering VRR, Gnome doesn’t have issues with multi-monitor VRR, so you can set it for one monitor and not another in Display Settings (once you enable the feature; can’t test myself).

Sounds like both Plasma and Gnome have work ahead of them, since you said that you can’t currently have a multi-monitor setup using VRR on Plasma.

Does raytracing not work on Linux for you?

Big “you can’t quit, because you’re fired” energy.

I’m sure people will be lining up to work for you, now!

They do a few other opinionated things, like using the fsync kernel and layering Steam rather than having people use the flatpak, but it’s essentially as you say: atomic Fedora, pulling from Kinoite or Silverblue as the base before making their changes.

That’s pretty much the gist of it. They even have instructions for doing it yourself, using whatever upstream OCI image you want (including one of the uBlue projects).

BlueBuild is a spinoff project based on the same build concepts that was originally part of UniversalBlue, but they diverged completely due to eventually having a completely different scope.

You know, that’s probably something every Linux dev team could use: a volunteer marketing team. Devs volunteer their time, and not everyone can or wants to code, so it seems to me that there should be space made for other skillsets.

B and C. Nothing should be on Facebook.

Welcome to 2025. Happy New Year.

Looks exactly like it! I see no difference!

I don’t actually have any idea, I just like the wholesomeness of this post! Is it a deer?

Cachy is Arch. They use automated build processes to optimize everything from the kernel to packages.

I’ve looked at Archcraft (not any of the others), and the only thing that seems unique about it is that it’s riced (themed) out of the box and offers several DE options. Otherwise, there’s not really anything that sets it apart from, say, EndeavorOS (which has a handful of DEs and a great install process) or CachyOS (which has a nice install process, an optimized kernel and packages, and as many or more DE options as Archcraft).

The other thing that gives me pause with Archcraft is the fact that it’s maintained by only one person. What happens if/when they get burned out?

The flatpak is unofficial. It’s maintained by someone from the community.

like what if linux still was open source but had a lot of proprietary dependencies and packages…

At that point, it’s not really open source anymore. Once it has proprietary dependencies, it’s no longer open.

but it still would let you use any desktop environment and there would be a new proprietary desktop environment which was like gnome but easier

What you’re describing is a closed-source version of Pop!_OS with a closed source version of Cosmic, their latest DE still in Alpha.

Businesses and software companies don’t make software for operating systems based on their openness or proprietary-ness. They make it based on market share. Your idea would still have to compete with Linux, MacOS, and Windows, and it would have to get a better share of the market than at least Linux before businesses would even bother making software for your closed system.

The reason Linux is as successful as it is, is because it’s open, and hobbyists can and do contribute to it for free. When you close that off, you then have to pay for development, and you’ll have to overcome the gigantic barrier to entry set up by the likes of Microsoft and Apple.