winblues/blue95: A desktop for your childhood home’s computer room

A desktop for your childhood home’s computer room.

Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing.
Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme.

For more screenshots, see screenshots.md.

We are now creating a Live ISO that can be used to boot into a Blue95 live environment. Test it out without needing to install anything.

Note that the included installer is an alpha version and it is recommended to instead install Blue95 via the other methods listed below.

We are currently having issues with our installer ISOs. The current recommended installation path is though rebasing from a different Fedora Atomic desktop, preferably from an Xfce-based image such as winblues/vauxite.

After installing vauixite, you can rebase directly to this image with:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/winblues/blue95:latest

If you are currently using an atomic desktop, you can rebase to the latest blue95 image.

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

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/winblues/blue95:latest
  

• Reboot and then rebase to the signed image, like so:

  rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/winblues/blue95:latest
  

It is recommended to create a new user after rebasing.

• Match upstream Fedora Xfce in terms of core system components and update schedule.
• Pull in tweaks from Universal Blue (e.g. codecs, automatic updates, etc) to produce a more usable out-of-the box experience.
• Provide an aesthetic rooted in a bygone era of computing.

Non goals:

• Faithful reproduction of design elements from decades old operating systems. Whenever usability and exact replication are at odds, usability and accessibility will generally be preferred.

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