bog

A personal, slightly opinionated Fedora Atomic image built with BlueBuild and the Universal Blue toolchain. Immutable base, Flatpak-first, with Steam baked in.

What's included

Desktop

• GNOME with GDM, pre-configured via dconf
• Bazaar as the primary app store, with a curated catalogue spanning gaming, emulation, browsers, productivity, media, and more
• AppIndicator, Caffeine, and Quick Sound Switcher extensions enabled out of the box
• Inter and Comic Neue fonts installed system-wide
• Custom keybinds: Super+T (terminal), Super+. (GNOME Characters), Super+U (system upgrade launcher)

Software management

• Flatpak via Flathub - the primary way to install apps
• Distrobox for containerised access to traditional package managers (see below)
• Podman configured for rootless operation, with linger enabled on first login
• Steam installed at the system level (not as a Flatpak)

Shell utilities

A set of shell functions are available in any terminal session:

Function	What it does
gtns	Interactive system upgrade: runs bootc upgrade + flatpak update, with optional cleanup and reboot
getmedia	yt-dlp shorthand for downloading video (-v) or audio (-a) with metadata and thumbnails
setdns	Configures DNS for the active NetworkManager connection (NextDNS supported)
power	Shorthand for reboot, shutdown, or suspend
steam_shortcuts	Lists or flushes Steam game .desktop shortcuts
restore_app_guts	Restores pre-written Flatpak configs and permission overrides for a given app

Optional: Jackett

A rootless Podman container definition is included for Jackett (a torrent indexer proxy). Enable it as a user service when needed:

systemctl --user enable --now jackett

Distrobox: a traditional Linux experience, containerised

Distrobox lets you run a full Linux distribution inside a container that integrates with your desktop — useful when software only has a reliable install path for a specific distro, or when you want access to a traditional package manager without breaking the immutable base.

Example: Arch Linux with yay (AUR helper)

Step 1 - Create the container:

distrobox create --pull -Y -n arch -i archlinux:latest -ap "base-devel git"

Flag	Meaning
--pull	Always pull a fresh copy of the image, even if it's been pulled before
-Y	Auto-accept all prompts during container setup
-n arch	Name the container arch
-i archlinux:latest	Use the official Arch Linux cloud image
-ap "base-devel git"	Install these packages during initial setup

Step 2 - Enter the container and install yay:

distrobox enter arch -- bash -c "git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git && cd yay-bin && makepkg -si"

Part	Meaning
distrobox enter arch	Enter the container named arch
--	Everything after this is run inside the container rather than on the host
bash -c "..."	Run the quoted string as a shell command
git clone ...	Download the yay build files from the AUR
cd yay-bin	Navigate into the cloned directory
makepkg -si	Build and install the package (requires base-devel)

Once yay is installed, subsequent AUR packages can be installed with yay -S <package> from inside the container.

Installation

From any existing Fedora Atomic system:

sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/chrislowles/bog:latest
systemctl reboot

For NVIDIA hardware:

sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/chrislowles/bog-nvidia:latest
systemctl reboot

Verification

Images are signed with Sigstore cosign. Verify with:

cosign verify --key cosign.pub ghcr.io/chrislowles/bog