Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now
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I distrohop every now and then, but usually when I have a convincing argument for it. Anyone want to try to convince me to switch either of my computers (one on Tumbleweed and one on NixOS) to Bazzite?
If you've got actual work to do, don't.
I've got Bazzite on my TV PC, and it's pretty cromulent for that, but Flatpak alone doesn't have everything I need to do actual work.
its closest to nixos in functionality, but basically its just a very simple distro that doesnt require much work to maintain and comes with lots of useful premade scripts and configurations for gaming and making immutables easy to work with. if thats what youre looking for thats what its good for.
Can I setup docker containers on it?
Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you're installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.
I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I'd had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.
To me that's impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.
You can with the developer oriented spin, bazzite-dx (I think the plan is to unify them). On base bazzite there is no docker but there is podman I believe.
I didnt know they had multiple versions of bazzite, thats good to know. Appreciate the advice!
podman works well, docker is a little finicky due to some systemd weirdness and the whole immutability of it all.
it mainly tries to get you to use distroboxes which are awesome. you can even install something in a distrobox and expose it to the host.
Are distroboxes, podman, and docker all names for the same type of program? I'll have to start researching the ones you mentioned and see if it fits what I'm doing.
Distrobox is more like running an entire other Linux distro to run your program, so like before my laptop died completely I had Bazzite and needed to install something locally that was way easier to do in an Ubuntu Distrobox, any time I wanted to run that program I open up my distrobox and run it, felt very native and the app and its files were still in my normal home directory yet ran with dependencies and such I had in the distrobox only.
Definitely nifty but different from the goal of podman/docker imo
Oh thats cool, I can make use of that for sure. Thanks for the explanation!
they're all containerization programs yes. I believe they differ in some minor details but thanks to the OCI standards a image built with docker will run in podman or vice versa.
distrobox is a little more feature rich for development, meant for exposing services and are interactive by default, vs dockers run and forget methodology.