quarterlife

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quarterlife,

Your use case works

Anyone been daily driving Bazzite?

Been keeping a keen eye on Bazzite as it seems like a good distro for people like myself who mainly use the desktop pc to play games on. But it doesn’t seem like a “typical” distro for a daily driver? How does Bazzite for example differ from Nobara which is another gaming-oriented distro? I’m just curious as I keep...

quarterlife, (edited )

I opted for Lutris because Bottles has issues that make it unrecommendable and unsupportable by us.

Because it’s only shipped as a flatpak (They bullied the Fedora packager until they quit) it doesn’t support the frame limiter built into gamescope on the deck images (Requires a patch in Mesa).

As a contributor to the Northstar mod for Titanfall 2, we originally wanted to recommend it as the default Linux install path due to it’s friendly UI, but found because it avoids using winetricks it’s missing required dependencies. Despite us trying to work with them and contributing code, to this day it still doesn’t work, and recent discussions about this problem were extremely abrasive from their side, much like the above linked issue.

Ultimately Lutris provides a more consistent experience for gamers that are already used to Steam - with the same tools working for both. That’s my reasoning anyway.

As far as wine, we only install wine-core and not the entire stack, that’s purely for Lutris dependency reasons and isn’t intended to be used by the end user. Wine-ZGUI for instance is a Flatpak, and Lutris will install its own copy of wine - most likely Wine-GE or a derivative.

quarterlife, (edited )

If you need RPM Firefox, my recommendation is that you install it with Distrobox. This also solves the security issue that we remove upstream Firefox over - update frequency.

You don’t want Firefox to only update when your operating system image does. As far as I’m concerned the bug preventing Firefox from being re-added is a feature.

quarterlife,

We build twice a week, that’s not frequent enough for a web browser.

Ultimately it’s saving you from yourself, if this bug gets fixed and there’s a way I can unfix it, I will do so.

quarterlife,

Funny enough we just finished our website yesterday lmao

quarterlife,

We (ublue) remove Firefox and install the flatpak because you want your browser to update when it needs to update, and not only when your OS image updates.

quarterlife,

Those we leave alone, they’re really only meant as a base for other images anyway.

Not being able to relayer it is a good thing in this case, you don’t want the browser to have any limits on when it can update.

If you need something other than the flatpak, I would recommend installing it in a Fedora distrobox and exporting it.

quarterlife,

They all try to share patches and ideas too, if there’s competition - it’s friendly.

quarterlife, (edited )

We’re aware of it, it’s just complicated and directly related to kernel differences between Valve’s heavily modified 6.1 and Fedora’s 6.6/soon to be 6.7

This release lays the groundwork since it’s the first one with a fully custom kernel. In addition updates will be coming faster for the foreseeable future. A lot was held back due to us working on maintaining secure boot support when switching kernels.

quarterlife,

We stopped doing this a few versions ago, main reason was inconsistency between the deck and desktop branches, since deck needs to be properly layered due to it essentially being a desktop environment.

Additionally, we’re not able to offer HDR or steam input with Wayland through distrobox. That being said, bazzite-arch remains a distrobox image with real utility for other use cases and we continue to maintain it.

quarterlife,

It’s layered into the image like any other rpm. Standard steam package you’d install in Workstation.

quarterlife,

The testing build of Bazzite should have everything in your bottom link and more ;)

quarterlife, (edited )

Speaking on Bazzite, KDE is our default to match SteamOS, but we put more effort into the GNOME release if anything due to us trying to maintain feature parity with Valve’s KDE, including being able to right click and add to steam, use the desktop nested, enable VRR, add custom themes based on the ones Valve shipped, and add the steam deck wallpapers ported to GNOME.

That being said, GE’s points about GNOME are very real, and they have a lot of catching to do in regards to gaming. KDE has DRM Leasing, VRR and HDR right now.

quarterlife,

To harm a competitors stock prices more than they are paying out

quarterlife,

Preview of the next release, need to fix an issue with Xbox controller detection and then we’ll add it to the Bazzite Portal for anyone to easily use.

And yes, the SteamOS keyboard works!

quarterlife,

bazzite.gg

quarterlife,

Only missing feature compared to SteamOS 3.6 is HDR, we’re waiting for Fedora to land it in stable rather than port all of that from SteamOS.

And then of course there’s a ton of features we add that SteamOS doesn’t have. We build from stable Fedora and keep our patches minimal so the intent is for Bazzite to be as stable.

quarterlife,

The main difference, and what got me to start this project, is that you can layer on packages. This means no more dealing with disabling read-only and losing your changes every time you update.

Besides that, this incorporates a huge number of community made features such as SDGyroDSU and Discover Overlay OOTB, a newer kernel than even SteamOS 3.6, DisplayLink support, Nvidia support (on desktop), and so on.

It’s essentially become an immutable/atomic gaming spin on Fedora, with full support for the deck.

quarterlife,

Yes they do, and you can bet that’ll go away as soon as Apple thinks x86 isn’t important (to them).

quarterlife,

I can do that without Windows and most of my games run better on Linux. Best is very subjective.

quarterlife,

I don’t, why are you speaking for 7 billion people?

Bazzite 1.1.0 is out - Now with offline ISOs (universal-blue.org)

Bazzite is an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck and for Desktop PCs that closely emulates SteamOS, with numerous additional features and improvements on top. We use immutable Fedora as a base, and allow packages to be layered and kept through updates unlike stock SteamOS. You can even print and change the language...

quarterlife,

Just make sure it’s mounted in fstab, same as any other distro. If it’s a permanent drive I would mount it to /var/mnt/ChangeMe

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