Universal Blue didn't fail. They just stopped building for us — and I think it cost desktop Linux more than people want to admit.

I've been going back and forth on whether to write this because I know how it's going to land. Bazzite is beloved, the ublue folks are genuinely nice and genuinely good engineers, and "atomic distro bad" posts are usually written by someone who spent forty minutes with Silverblue in 2022 and got mad. That's not what this is. I went through their...