Features

Dakota is the flagship Bluefin desktop. Compared with previous images such as Bluefin Classic, it offers:

• The latest GNOME desktop
• System libraries and development tools from the Freedesktop SDK
• Optimized x86-64-v3 builds for modern CPUs
• systemd-boot as the bootloader, with full Secure Boot support
• A dedicated gaming session with a gaming kernel from the Open Gaming Collective and Steam Gamescope
• uutils as the default coreutils implementation
• A graphical Control Center for system administration

Built-in feedback loop

Dakota doesn't eat tickets; it treats them as evidence. Every user running Dakota is part of a structured loop that feeds directly back into the issue tracker. When something breaks on your hardware, you have three commands:

| Command | What it does | |---|---| | ujust report | Captures your system state and opens a pre-filled issue. One command instead of a wall of "please attach logs." | | ujust confirm | Tells the team your hardware hits the same bug. Adds a hardware fingerprint to the issue — no duplicate filing. | | ujust verify | After a fix ships in a nightly, confirms it works on your machine. Closes the loop with evidence. |

No telemetry. No phone-home. You review every report before it leaves your machine. Reports live in gists you own and can delete at any time.

Image streams

| Tag | Stream | What it is | | ---------: | ------: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | | :stable | Stable | GNOME 51 — production. Weekly promotions from :testing. | | :testing | Dev | GNOME 51 — daily builds from the testing branch. Boot-check gated. | | :next | Rolling | Tracks gnome-build-meta master daily (currently disabled). |

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