BlueCat  

An opinionated tweaked ublue image based on silverblue-main.

What is this?

This is my own tweaked image deployment that I maintain for myself. It's mainly focused on 3D graphics, programming and gaming workloads.

If anyone is using these images please reach out with a bug report so that I don't randomly change things on your computer.

Tip

If you are confused about wat BlueCat is, consider checking out the wiki. It might help point you in the right direction.

Changes and Features

Tweaks

• All the uBlue backend goodies
• Firefox removed (install web browser from software centre or cli)
• Hack Nerd Font included
• Caffeine, Appindicator Support and Blur my Shell extensions included
• v4l2loopback kernel module for obs virtual webcam

Included apps and tools

General Tools

• Loupe - Image Viewer
• Celluloid - Media Player
• Gnome Papers - Document Wiever
• Gnome Calendar - Calendar App
• Mission Center - Task Manager for Linux
• btop - Task Manager in the Terminal
• Extension Manager - Gnome Extensions Manager
• Flatseal - Flatpak Permissions Manager
• Gear Lever - Appimage Desktop Integration Tool

Dev Tools

• Ghostty - Terminal Emulator
• NeoVim - Code Editor
• VSCodium thanks to Pavlo Rudy - Code editor
• Git LFS - Large File Storage with Git
• Android Tools (adb, fastboot)
• Podman and Docker - Container Tools
• sshfs - Mount Remote Directories on your Machine via SSH

Installation

1. You first need a Fedora Atomic Desktop installed.
2. Then you rebase with these commands

Image Names:

• bluecat:latest
• bluecat-nvidia:latest

Commands:

Tip

Replace <image-name> with the image you wish to use. If you have an Nvidia GPU use bluecat-nvidia:latest, else use bluecat:latest.

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

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/polycatdev/<image-name>
  

• Reboot to complete the rebase:

  systemctl reboot
  

• Then rebase to the signed image, like so:

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/polycatdev/<image-name>
  

• Reboot again to complete the installation

  systemctl reboot
  

Special Thanks

• asen23 - They helped a lot with the akmods installation setup