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It's always nice to see these community projects, but I personally don't really see the appeal with these distributions that are 98% identical with the distribution they're based on.
You may as well use the distribution this is based on (Fedora) and tweak a few settings yourself if you really want to. RPM Fusion being included is nice, but it's easily added to vanilla Fedora and it doesn't seem like Ultramarine does anything more than simply enabling it by default.
They also state they include "various UX improvements", but I couldn't find what they are in detail on their website.
Not sure if saving a few minutes setting up RPM Fusion and Flathub is worth the tradeoff of evidently lagging behind in updates and potentially running into issues with their "UX improvements" on your setup, for which you'll get a lot less help/knowledge to fall back to from the much smaller community.
I think ublue is the best incarnation of this style of "tweak forks", it meaningfully expands on the base, but still remains compatible with the original since you can just do a rebase from one of the original Fedora Atomic spins... which wouldn't have been possible without OSTree, so thanks, Fedora devs :)
ublue makes more sense, especially Bazzite for handhelds where it boots to the handheld/console Steam UI by default and integrates OS updates into this UI as well.
I go the opposite way. Why have a ton of people making the same tweaks when someone can just roll a distro with the tweaks at the get go. puppy linux was like an extreme version of this.
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