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I did something to screw up my Nobara install quite some time ago, and have been waiting for Gnome 46 to land on some good distro to switch over and hopefully get my pc back to good standard.
After hearing good stuff about #Bazzite that's what I'm installing right now. Having high hopes. But they are lowered a bit by that bad installer. Can't remember last time I saw such a bad installer, and no live USB? What?
I hear new people come to Linux trough this distro? That's impressive!
Then I'm asked if I want to let Gnome ssh-askpass to inhibit shortcuts. Wtf does that mean?
I'm having more and more of a hard time believing new people actually comes to Linux for the very first time trough #Bazzite and stays! Who are the people who don't care about the nerdy stuff who is met by this and actually gets trough it all without freaking out?
This doesn't mean that the distro itself necessarily is bad! But people have to get to try it, and all of this makes that seem unlikely.
There's quite a few extensions installed by default here. That's a good thing! I use many more extensions myself. But one of them is incompatible with Gnome 46. Which kinda makes me feel uncertain about how well they made sure that everything is in top shape for this release. It did come very quickly after the Fedora release its based on. Maybe too quickly?
BTW, there's also Fedora branding in the installer.
So for the actual reason why I went with #Bazzite: Playing games I've just barely been able to play before.
There's a few games I've been able to play, but with very low graphics and/or sluggish, which I hoped a gaming optimized distro would make work better.
So far I've tested Obduction and Quern. And also Stardew Valley, which worked fine before, so it's not in the same category, I just played it since (spoiler) the others didn't work.
Oh, and also: The default alert sound of #Bazzite is just not pleasant at all!
Yeah, I would not have believed this before yesterday, but I think actually I'm going to give Nobara another chance, after the new release with Gnome 46 comes out. I had other issues with Nobara too, but I know the biggest problem was something I did wrong, so…
I was so annoyed having to wait a whole month after Fedora releases to get the new Nobara, but I guess it's a good reason for that…
Among all the patches we've shipped, my favorite is that HDR is now provided by the upstream AMD params and not based on Valve's patch set. Currently I'm working on making an EDID for the #SteamDeck OLED so HDR works under #KDE 6 as well.
As part of this update we've also reduced overall technical debt and cleaned up our various spec files.
Most of the work this cycle was spent making upgrades easier and not doing the upgrade. This also means Fedora 41 will be that much easier for us to move to when the time comes!
We found and fixed some long standing bugs in this process as well, such as:
1: Rotation issues on #KDE
2: Audio issues on some #HTPC s
3: Image channel switching in #Steam gaming mode
Lastly, we have some very cool hardware compatibility changes coming. The #SteamDeck OLED is getting it's last remaining bugs resolved in time for a 3.1 release, and a new family of Laptops is joining the officially supported list! Keep a look out for 3.0.1 and 3.1.0
And as always, we need more testers! If you want to help us out, rebase to our :testing branch and open issues on our GitHub!
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