2025-06-05 –, Opal
The Fedora Atomic Desktops have been available in Fedora for while now, but they are not the default option displayed on the website nor recommended to new users.
At the same time, Universal Blue is gathering a lot of interest, notably via the Bazzite variant that targets mobile gaming devices and other form factors. What are the main difference that make Bazzite ready for new users today while the Atomic Desktops are not considered to be?
In this session we will take a look at what is currently missing for the Atomic Desktops to become a first class option in Fedora and how we could make that happen. We will also talk about the present and the future of the Atomic Desktops: Bootable Containers (bootc), systemd system extensions (sysexts), Fedora and Flathub Flatpaks, license encumbered codecs, external kernel modules, etc.
Timothée Ravier is a CoreOS engineer at Red Hat. He maintains the Fedora Atomic Desktops. He is a KDE developer and helps maintain KDE Applications as Flatpaks on Flathub.