Bluefin

Reader supplied reviews for Bluefin Average rating 9.7 from 3 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Bluefin? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 42.2025070641.20250706 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 42.20250608 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-10 Votes: 2 Bluefin is extremely stable. Been using it for 8+ months now with ZERO errors so far. All the previous distros I tried had some issues within a month of use. The key to its reliability is the immutable architecture inherited from Fedora Silverblue. The core OS is read-only, making updates atomic and completely safe – if something goes wrong, you can simply roll back to a previous working state with a reboot. What really sets Bluefin apart for me is the developer-focused, cloud-native workflow. Instead of cluttering the base system, command-line tools and development environments are managed cleanly within containers using the excellent, integrated Distrobox and Podman tools. GUI applications are handled via Flatpak, keeping everything sandboxed and secure. It's an opinionated OS that comes with many quality-of-life features out-of-the-box, including necessary codecs and even pre-configured Nvidia drivers on their specific images. If you're a developer or just someone looking for a powerful, modern, and incredibly dependable Linux desktop that 'just works', I highly recommend giving Bluefin a try. It respects your time by being low-maintenance and robust. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 42.20250522 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-06-06 Votes: 2 I’ve been using Linux for 15 years and I’ve tried most distros out there, Bluefin (and the other Universal Blue images “Aurora and Bazzite”) would have to be the best distro I’ve used hands down. Virtually zero maintenance and everything just worked out of the box. Would be the perfect distro for a new Linux user, very easy to use, very hard to break and reasonably good documentation. Not sure why it’s not more popular. Being Fedora based it has good support for newer hardware but with the added bonus of Nvidia support out of the box. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 42.20250522 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-05-25 Votes: 4 This is kind of distro you land on when you no longer feel the need to tinker with your system and just want to it to start up every time so you can get something done. Yes, to many, Bluefin might seem just a curated Silverblue with extra bells and whistles, but the additional stuff is so well thought-out that it really makes it so much easier to just install the OS and get immediately to work. Case in point, I initially tried Silverblue for a few months and while it was generally a good experience, from the very beginning there was a decent amount of post-installation setup I had to do, plus there ongoing issues with media playback that I never managed to solve. With Bluefin, I immediately had a functional desktop setup with some very well-chosen extensions out-of-the-box, and distrobox/brew already pre-configured and ready to go. Yes, a lot of the cloud-native stuff here may only really appeal to developers, but that doesn't mean this isn't a distro for everyday, non-techie users. If I had a family member that wanted an attractive, easy-to-use system that never got in the way, this is the Linux OS I'd recommend, bar none. I'd like to give a shoutout to the entire Bluefin team, and I really hope the OS continues to grow and build the thriving community that it deserves. Was this review helpful? Yes No