Taste the GNOME Vanilla experience on Ubuntu
This project is not affiliated with the GNOME Foundation or Canonical.
The purpose of this flavor is to provide a vanilla GNOME experience on Ubuntu. Flatpak is installed and configured with the Flathub repository by default and the GNOME Software application replaces the Snapcraft Store. There is no de-snapification of the system, so you will be able to install software with both Flatpak and Snap. I'm working on a first-run wizard to help users choose between the two or just keep both.
There is no hating on Snap here, I just prefer Flatpak but the point of this flavor is not to sacrifice the Snap ecosystem and the Ubuntu Team's efforts. I'm just trying to provide a more vanilla GNOME experience.
I'm working on automating the build and hosting of the ISO.
To locally build an iso you need mtools and xorriso:
sudo apt install mtools xorriso
This repo now supports building the ISO image using the GitHub actions CI, you can fork the repo if you want to build using CI.
For building on Pop! OS hosts you will also need to install the: squashfs-tools
and grub-common packages before building. (Dont't worry it will not install GRUB).
To download a fresh iso from ubuntu servers (this will also start re-assembling it with your modifications):
./fetch_build
To remix again without downloading:
sudo make
To clean up after yourself:
sudo make clean
To change what modifications to apply, change build/remix.sh file.
To change where to get iso from, change fetch_build.conf file.
To change how your ISO is presented in it's GRUB2, change grub.cfg file.
This project is based and improved upon Ubuntu Remixes. and ubuntu-desnap-vanilla-gnome