Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg
My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.
Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg
My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.
anyone got a lazy tldr? new distro?
It’s a distro that is intended to play Steam games well. Terrible if you like tinkering or hate flat pack software. Less than an ideal development environment
It’s great for tinkering. It’s just done differently than you’re used to.
You can write your own systemd services and you can customize your Plasma using panel colorizer. You can go a bit further and rpm-ostree install kvantum and get even more ricing freedom. You can’t however make it use other init system or other DE/WM. It’s still quite good for what it is.
You’re AFAIK correct on the bold part. But definitely not on the strike-through part. You’re probably only limited by your creativity and the effort you’re willing to put into it:
its great for dev. It encourages you to use distroboxes to isolate your dev environments from each other and the host system, or even better use devcontainers for reproducible dev environments
I kinda agree, but it can also be pain in the ass. For example, using flatpak VS Code is massive pain in the ass. You end up needing to do tons of tricky workarounds for all kinds of language server/formatter/etc addons to work properly. It’s okay when you only need to do it once for a single language (Rust, for example), but it becomes very annoying when every new addon you install is highly likely to need you to write some flatpak-spawn based wrapper scripts in ~/.local/bin or whatever extra userspace bin folder you added to your PATH.
Fair point, I’ve struggled with VSCode as well. I started looking into using a local container with VSCode’s remote dev add-ons (the ones you use for sshing into a remote machine but in this case it would just be a local container), and then installing all language servers and tooling inside the container. Do you have any experience with that?
It’s Fedora for gamers.
Immutable Fedora for gamers.
It’s Linux for people who don’t know how to use Linux. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way either.
I’m a Linux user since the age of Slackware diskette installs.
I tried Bazzite, or Aurora, rather, and found that it wasn’t for me. Having to spin up distro boxes or VMs to do things that are pacman -Syu some-random-app in my current distro, is just not for me.
I lived in ultrastable Debianland for years, and recently tried Script Kiddie Arch (CachyOS). I have my at-least-for-now forever home.
I have a fairly bleeding edge distro that is slick, fast, polished, friendly, and If something goes boom, I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me, and I don’t have to live in a system where the important decisions are made for me.
I have an old iMac for that.
CachyOS is friendlier and less problematic than W11, and if you need help, it’s wiki + Arch’s legendary wiki + community is way more useful than your average Windows “run DISM” bullshit.
What about the people who already have many computers for other purposes, and they just don’t feel like using the gaming machine for any of the purposes. What if they already get to tinker and tweak the other computers to such an extent that there’s no need for them to do any of that with the gaming system.
Hi, I use Bazzite and is fantastic. You can you use your PC just as a console or dedicate big part of it to games. Immutable means that it takes a lot of work to mess it up. If you want a distro that just works Bazzite is the best, I’ve had zero problem with it and I love how simple it is.
I plan on trying out SteamOS pretty soon. I have a desktop with all the most compatible bits of hardware for it. I do wonder if I’ll be able to get my Intel wifi\bluetooth and my old brother laser printer to work with it.
I would definitely recommend trying Bazzite first. It’s basically SteamOS but targeted towards general hardware instead of just the steam deck and steam machine.
For a long time SteamOS didn’t have printer drivers because why would a steam deck need printer drivers.
Out of all the users I’ve recommended Bazzite to generally people waiting for SteamOS or people wanting to escape Windows 11 with a Linux distro that “just works” are the happiest with it.
I agree 100 percent.
I just swapped my steam deck to bazzite :p
Lol. Do you miss out on all the shader pre caching by doing that? I’ve played the same game on my steam deck with shader pre caching and without, and there’s a pretty noticeable difference in gameplay quality.
No steam still downloads the precache info, at least I’ve seen it show up the same way in the downloads window in gamescope.