zeliblue

Zeliblue is a customized Fedora Atomic Desktop image, based on the Universal Blue project, featuring the GNOME desktop as the flagship experience.

Notable changes from vanilla GNOME and Fedora Silverblue include:

• Ptyxis, the default Terminal app, can be launched with Super+t
• fish is set as the default shell in Ptyxis
• Flathub is set up as the default Flatpak remote during installation
• Default system apps are selected based on the official GNOME Core apps, with some substitutions and additions
• And more miscellaneous tweaks

There was previously a Zeliblue Plasma (zeliblue-kinoite), but this image is now deprecated and no longer receives updates.

Zeliblue is built upon Universal Blue.

Installation

For most users, I would recommend looking into either Bluefin or Bazzite, or, for tinkerers, I recommend making your own. Both of the former two projects have many more contributors and a much larger community for support, whereas Zeliblue is run by one lone maintainer. If you want to try Zeliblue anyway, you can follow the instructions below.

ISOs

ISOs can be found in the GitHub Action artifacts for ISO builds. ISOs for Zeliblue are built on the first day of each month. Zeliblue Deck ISOs are currently unscheduled.

Rebase

You can also rebase an existing Silverblue installation to the latest build:

• First rebase to the unsigned image, to get the proper signing keys and policies installed:

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/zelikos/zeliblue:stable
  

• Reboot to complete the rebase:

  systemctl reboot
  

• Then, rebase onto the signed image:

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/zelikos/zeliblue:stable
  systemctl reboot
  

Scope

Zeliblue is created with the goal of providing an opiniated experience that emphasizes ease of use for non tech savvy users (i.e. "average" users), while also providing extra options for those with more computer experience. Those extra options are to be provided in a way that doesn't distract the average user, primarily via just commands.

In other words, Zeliblue is made to meet my needs while also being something I would comfortably recommend to friends and family.

Verification

These images are signed with sisgstore's cosign. You can verify the signature by downloading the cosign.pub key from this repo and running the following command:

cosign verify --key cosign.pub ghcr.io/zelikos/zeliblue