This isn’t me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine....
Bazzite is definitely a great option if you have an Nvidia card or you are looking for gaming performance. It includes some gaming oriented features and optimizations like the System76 scheduler that aren’t in the regular Fedora Atomic builds that have the potential to increase performance, and make things easier (such as having a build with Nvidia drivers in the root image). I don’t really game at the moment, so I don’t have personal experience with Bazzite, but I’ve been on Fedora Atomic KDE for a while now and it has been a great experience. I’ve heard lots of great things about Bazzite, so I would expect it to be a similar experience (maybe a bit easier). I feel comfortable recommending both, but the more appropriate choice will depend on what you use your computer for and your own preferences, of course.
While I haven’t personally rebased to a different image before, it should be pretty seamless, except for some potential config issues if you are switching to an image with a different DE (i.e. switching from GNOME to KDE). I’ve seen people in this community mention successfully rebasing to another DE, but Bazzite’s documentation recommends against it. I imagine that there may be config issues in /etc or in your home folder from switching DEs, just as may be expected when switching to a different DE on a non-atomic system. Your milage may vary there, essentially; Fedora and uBlue just don’t officially test rebasing between different DEs. I usually tend to be cautious in my recommendations, so I generally recommend users to try out different DEs on a VM before deciding on one, and to do a full reinstall when switching DEs. There’s a chance that is overkill, but it is certainly safe. Here is a blog post detailing some issues a user had when rebasing from Silverblue to Kinoite as an example. It seems that the issues can be fixed, but since the rebase between DEs is not officially tested, it is prone to small issues like these (though it appears at least some of the ones in that post have been fixed upstream now). The issues in that post were all incredibly minor, so you could likely fix your system in place if you were to try this (maybe you won’t even have any issues; half of the post was about an issue caused by the fish shell, which is not the default), though you’d have to know where to look to find any issues (I’d start by checking overlaid packages and seeing if there are any from the old DE). You can always rollback safely, as each previous version the OS saves has it’s own unique /etc folder (even though it isn’t part of the root image).
Switching between Fedora Atomic and Bazzite is more supported (when you keep the same DE), but different images can add and remove packages from the root image, so you may find that you’ll need to overlay packages/remove overlays when switching between them (such as Nvidia drivers). I don’t imagine that posing an issue as an end user in most cases (outside of the Nvidia drivers), just thought it was worth mentioning, as it is an edge case that could pop up. That’s one of the reasons that adding overlays isn’t the first recommendation for installing packages, as they have the potential to make rebasing a bit more complicated for a handful of packages that may be different between different images. I would imagine that an update (or even the rebase itself) would fix any dependency issues (hence why I don’t see it being an issue for an end user in most cases), but I don’t know that for a fact. None of my information on rebasing is based on experience, except for rebasing to a new major version (i.e. Fedora 39 to Fedora 40), so you should look into that more yourself if you want more concrete details. Also, I mistakenly mentioned rebasing to a previous version of your image from before an update. That is actually called a rollback, and uses the rpm-ostree rollback command, more info here (I’ve edited my previous comment to reflect that). Bazzite has some good documentation on rebasing here, and I don’t see any mention of package conflicts between Bazzite and Fedora Atomic, though you will likely want to remove an Nvidia driver overlay if switching from Fedora Atomic to Bazzite. You very likely won’t need to make any other changes. There are people in this community with far more rebasing knowledge than I can provide/find from searching, so you can always make a post asking about it if necessary, and someone should be able to help.
It’s also helpful to note that documentation for Fedora Atomic (sometimes you get better search results by using “Silverblue”, as that was the original project name), Bazzite, and Bluefin are often interchangeable, as they are all based on Fedora Atomic. You may find some things more easily documented in Bazzite/Bluefin than on Fedora Atomic or vice versa, but much of that documentation applies exactly the same to any version. For any additional information about rpm-ostree, I would unironically suggest reading the manual page through man rpm-ostree or online at a site like this if you aren’t comfortable with the terminal interface for man pages (quick tip: you can search for a term in man by typing / followed by the search term, and you can use n and N to go to the next/previous occurance).
I’m just here to help people out when I can, so if my comments are able to help anyone, I see it as time well spent. Sometimes it even helps me learn new things myself, and cements concepts I was already familiar with, so it’s mutually beneficial!
I guess I'm a bit addicted to living on the edge. 😜🫣 For example, I switched to #wayland, #pipewire or #wireplumber early on, despite some "rocky roads".
I usually enjoy to try new things. I think that's why I like the idea of a #rolling#distribution so much. I often feel a bit like unwrapping presents at Christmas when I'm #updating my system. Hahaha, I haven't done the latter in decades. 😅
#GreatAlbums1960s - #Rolling Stones – Let It Bleed (1969). The Stones crossfade from the acid sixties to the adrenalized seventies. Jimmy Miller’s production intensifies the LP’s lyrical dreg through the dirt of reality. “Gimme Shelter” brings the darkness as guest Merry Clayton’s “Rape! Murder! It’s just a shot away” suggests there’s no escape from it. Brian Jones’ tragedy seems burned into the grooves, as “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” offers a tentative glint of hope. #GreatRockAlbums
#GreatAlbums1960s - #Rolling Stones – Beggars Banquet (1968). After the experiments of ’67, the Stones returned to their bluesier roots – this time as seasoned masters of the form. “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street Fighting Man” capture the grit and cynicism of the burned-out 60s, “No Expectations” is a rare country (or “country”) song on which Jagger doesn’t wink, “Salt of the Earth” is the band’s first gospel blues, and “Stray Cat Blues” is a furiously prowling rocker.
I usually write this blog 5-6 days/week, but every now and again, I take a break, and when I do, I get massive link backlogs of stuff I want to write about, but lack the time to address in depth. When that happens, I turn my Saturday edition into a #linkdump. Today, I present the sixth in the series - here's the other five:
The fact that cars score so badly on privacy is especially ironic given the campaign #BigCar waged against the 2020 #Massachusetts#RightToRepair ballot initiative, in which car manufacturers held themselves out as the defenders of driver privacy from unscrupulous third parties who couldn't be trusted to handle the vast troves of data your car collects with every hour that God sends:
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Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare - but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist utopia, it's a dream they can't give up on.
Back in 2020 when #Massachusetts was having a #RightToRepair ballot initiative, Big Car ran these unfuckingbelievable scare ads that basically said, "Your car spies on you so comprehensively that giving anyone else access to its systems will let murderers stalk you to your home and kill you:
The #RepublicanParty, a coalition between Big Business farmers and turkeys who'll vote for Christmas (Red Scare cowards, apocalyptic white nationalists, religious fanatics, etc) has fallen to its bizarre, violent radical wing, who obsessed pver policies that are irrelevant to the majority of Americans.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
The NHTSA repeats the car lobby's own scare stories about "cybersecurity" that they blitzed to Massachusetts voters in the runup to the ballot initiative:
The idea that cybersecurity is best maintained by letting powerful corporations gouge you on service and parts is belied by independent experts, like #SecuRepairs, who do important work countering the FUD thrown off by the industry (and parroted by Biden's NHTSA):
Crapped my system
This isn’t me asking for help or anything, I already replaced it with fedora kinoite. I just felt like talking about this ridiculous venture of mine....