Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Recently, I got to sit down with Jorge Castro, one of the project leads of Universal Blue, its Linux spins Bazzite, Bluefin and Aurora, and its mission to make Linux easier to use for everyone.
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With: @JorgeCastro
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👇 Sauce:
trafotin.com/v/2024-10-30-jorge-castro
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:11 Our Universal Blue Introductions
3:13 What is "cloud native?"
4:59 What about older hardware?
7:47 What about the CNCF? How do people respond?
21:14 Why not Silverblue or the vanilla images?
31:35 Immutability is a lie.
48:29 Why Proton VPN sucks on Linux
51:34 Snaps Bad, Linux Bad (feat. Jorge)
1:06:32 Jorge's thoughts on Ubuntu Core Desktop
1:09:14 What Universal Blue Users Get
1:13:34 Two old men shout at Windows
1:15:46 Upstream Woes
1:19:42 Fun with Firefox
1:24:50 GNOME Software, OS, and Unified Kernel Images (UKIs)
1:31:07 uBlue & Hardware
1:36:45 Alpaca, Ollama, and Windows AI
1:46:16 Obligatory Gaming Segment
1:55:45 Bluefin on, brain off
1:56:42 Why Homebrew?
1:58:33 Upcoming uBlue Additions
2:01:01 uBlue's Impact
2:08:18 Abandoning the old guard
2:14:13 The Cost of Building an Image
2:21:49 Domain Tangent
2:23:22 Outro
Recently, I got to sit down with Jorge Castro, one of the project leads of Universal Blue, its Linux spins Bazzite, Bluefin and Aurora, and its mission to make Linux easier to use for everyone.
Website: trafotin.com
With: @JorgeCastro
Donate:
✨ Patreon: patreon.com/trafotin
▶️ YouTube Membership: youtube.com/channel/UC5U7mHlhP6s6478wd7ZvnhA/join
Links:
▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/@Trafotin?sub_confirmation=1
📒 Odysee: odysee.com/@Trafotin:4?r=H3rcjs7KuCqVcwBkakJckNEZce4kD3GU
🦑 Peertube: spectra.video/c/trafotin
🐘 Mastodon: https://vt.social/@trafotin
🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/trafotin.com
𝕏 (Formerly Twitter): https://x.com/trafotin
📁 Gitlab: gitlab.com/trafotin
🪙 Crypto:
XMR: 84ZpcYxjfkT7uFGXgmi2jH2wyhUBMx8hGBJ3sAp478rKSShMAJHR3DhVVPSwCAskReRBPifzpA5Vu7HPpzAxHUux3SFS4bh
👇 Sauce:
trafotin.com/v/2024-10-30-jorge-castro
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:11 Our Universal Blue Introductions
3:13 What is "cloud native?"
4:59 What about older hardware?
7:47 What about the CNCF? How do people respond?
21:14 Why not Silverblue or the vanilla images?
31:35 Immutability is a lie.
48:29 Why Proton VPN sucks on Linux
51:34 Snaps Bad, Linux Bad (feat. Jorge)
1:06:32 Jorge's thoughts on Ubuntu Core Desktop
1:09:14 What Universal Blue Users Get
1:13:34 Two old men shout at Windows
1:15:46 Upstream Woes
1:19:42 Fun with Firefox
1:24:50 GNOME Software, OS, and Unified Kernel Images (UKIs)
1:31:07 uBlue & Hardware
1:36:45 Alpaca, Ollama, and Windows AI
1:46:16 Obligatory Gaming Segment
1:55:45 Bluefin on, brain off
1:56:42 Why Homebrew?
1:58:33 Upcoming uBlue Additions
2:01:01 uBlue's Impact
2:08:18 Abandoning the old guard
2:14:13 The Cost of Building an Image
2:21:49 Domain Tangent
2:23:22 Outro
