... I use Bazzite btw
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Can you dual boot it yet with other linuxes? I want to split gaming and productivity.
I think you've always been able to?
I could only find the ugly bios option, normally the os-prober of grub-mkconfig would be configurable to take care of it, but we are immutable there. I assume this is also valid for debian or arch:
Is Bazzite better for gaming? What are you running currently?
I tried it out and challenged myself not to touch the terminal to fix anything for as long as I could, to see if it is a truly ready-out-of-the-box experience.
It is actually very intuitive for gaming, what makes it feel more suited than most distros for me is that flatpak apps that you don't have installed show up in the start menu, ready to add if you need them. Other OSs are leaner and cleaner but you'd have to know the package name.
I managed to get everything started, games and stuff including minor tweaks, and the first time I needed to use the terminal was to work out how to get some fan control working. I didn't succeed in setting it up. So I took away from that experience that low level hardware OS tasks are harder to access in Bazzite.
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Thats great!
I actually don't see the benefit of Bazzite, its supposed to be gaming. But I didn't really ran into much problems using Bottles under Fedora either (which feels much less bloated), but maybe i was just lucky. I play mostly indie games from itch.
I also use Bottles with ProtonPlus on NixOS. Bazzite has better integration for crazy stuff too, and a lot is running with full privileges unlike Flatpak.
Just look at their features, they really add a ton. The goal is to become less and less ofc, but Steam will stay proprietary so that will always be a huge change to regular (or atomic) Fedora.
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite?tab=readme-ov-file#about--features
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Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
Bazzite is built from ublue-os/main and ublue-os/nvidia using Fedora technology, which means expanded hardware support and built in drivers are included. Additionally, Bazzite adds the following features:
- Uses the bazzite kernel to achieve HDR and expanded hardware support, among numerous other included patches - based off of the fsync kernel.
- HDR available in Game mode.
- NVK available on non-Nvidia builds.
- Full hardware accelerated codec support for H264 decoding.
- Full support for AMD's ROCM OpenCL/HIP run-times.
- xone driver for Xbox controllers.
- Full support for DisplayLink.
- Includes Valve's KDE themes from SteamOS.
- LatencyFleX, vkBasalt, MangoHud, and OBS VkCapture installed and available by default
- Patched Switcheroo-Control fixing default-broken iGPU/dGPU switching.
- Support for Wallpaper Engine. (Only on KDE)
- ROM Properties Page shell extension included.
- Full support for Winesync/Fastsync/NTsync.
- Distrobox preinstalled.
- Simplified Davinci Resolve installation with davincibox (
ujust install-resolve) - Ptyxis Terminal used as the default in all images. This terminal is specifically designed for the container workflow you'll use in Bazzite. KDE Konsole and GNOME Console can be installed as flatpaks if required.
- Automated
duperemoveservice for reducing the disk space used by wine prefix contents. - Support for HDMI CEC via libCEC.
- Uses Google's BBR TCP congestion control by default.
- Input Remapper preinstalled and enabled. (Available but default-disabled on the Deck variant, may be enabled with
ujust restore-input-remapper) - Bazzite Portal provides an easy way to install numerous applications and tweaks, including installing LACT.
- Waydroid preinstalled for running Android apps. Set it up with this quick guide.
- Manage applications using Flatseal, Warehouse, and Gear Lever.
- OpenRGB i2c-piix4 and i2c-nct6775 drivers for controlling RGB on certain motherboards.
- OpenRazer drivers built in, Select OpenRazer in Bazzite Portal or run
ujust install-openrazerin a terminal to begin using it. - OpenTabletDriver udev rules built in, with the full software suite installable via Bazzite Portal or by running
ujust install-opentabletdriverin a terminal. - Out of the box support for Wooting keyboards.
- Built in support for Southern Islands (HD 7000) and Sea Islands (HD 8000) AMD GPUs under the
amdgpudriver. - XwaylandVideoBridge is available for Discord screensharing on Wayland.
- Webapp Manager is available for creating applications from websites for a variety of browsers, including Firefox.
So yeah it is bloated and less secure too, but "just works"
I like bootc and compiling my own images exactly how I want them :3 Though, this isn't bazzite specific
No, that's Garuda.
Also gaming focused, also super easy, not so locked down it won't let you change your login background, also has great Nvidia support. Arch.
I use Nobara, btw.
Finally some representation.
Pft. I compile Gentoo for my GameCube, btw
I'm considering Bazzite for a Win 10 machine that I only use to play Steam games. Really hoping that it "just works" for most of my library.
Could I consider any game that is Steam Deck Verified will work fine? Am I likely to run into a ton of issues? I game exclusively with a wireless XBone controller.
Steam Deck Verified games should be fine, and a lot of non-Verified games were only downgraded to "Playable" because of issues that may not matter on a desktop, like small text (what's small on a Steam Deck screen may not be small on a monitor) or needing to manually trigger the on-screen keyboard (a desktop is usually accompanied by a physical keyboard).
idk, but I use Ubuntu and pretty much everything on Steam works for me. I've only ever come across three games I wanted to and couldn't play, two of them are Epic gacha trash, and the other one's Skyrim with dll mods (non-dll mods work fine).
I think the controller is the least compatible thing there.
(I use bazzite, btw ;) )
I do have a Steam controller which would probably be a suitable replacement.
Is there a different controller that works better for you?
The xbone controller works fine, just make sure it's bluetooth. Not sure if the wireless dongle thing would work.
I'm clueless about Linux, so I tried it. It seems to be just working for me for most of my Steam library, at least with Proton Experimental. I don't have a XBone controller, but my SteelSeries knockoff does fine. That said, I have no idea what might cause it to break. (Though, it doesn't seem to like my mechanical hard drives much.)
(I use bazzite, btw ;) )
I truly believe Nobara to be better suited for gaming than Bazzite. I don't really get the hype. But then again, to each his own distro.
As a nobara user: it needs a better update tool, what's implemented is complete dogshit that acts invisibly but if you interrupt it oh boy enjoy reinstalling the entire system because you just destroyed it
Which is why I use sudo nobara-sync cli (this is built-in)
Fast, simple and verbose
Bazzite is like a easy newbie introduction to Linux. It's really hard to mess up Bazzite, like really hard. In the same regard it can also be a pain to install anything outside of their ecosystem. If you run it with Distrobox it's not a big deal but I don't see a lot of new users going that route. If you're just looking to browse, stream, and game than Bazzite is perfect and you don't need anything else. Beyond that? Distrobox or use a different distro.
I tried Bazzite, I didn't like it, I found it too limiting but I do see the appeal of it.
I'm on Bazzite after giving the other ublue flavours a try. It took a couple of weeks to get comfortable with the new philosophy, but now I can't see myself going back. What felt like limitations at first, now feels like good habits. All my dev work is done in containers, so it just makes sense.
Nobara didn't used to have a Steam Deck image. Bazzite was one of the first distros, if not the first to have one. that's why Bazzite is more popular. there was a huge surge of people on r/SteamDeck who switched to Bazzite, and that popularity moved on to other handhelds like the ASUS ones.
What would you recommend for a gaming machine with some pretty old hardware (1080Ti etc), PopOS or Bazzite? I mainline Mint, but I have this hardware coming in and I'd like to get an idea of what I want to do with it before it gets here.
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I'm glad all of you are using various Linux distros and I'm glad there is so much choice within this community. Keep it up!
Honestly I'd welcome this, the Linux podcasts I listen to are still going on and on about nix. At least it would be something different.
But have you read The Good Book (Dolstra et al, 2004)?
There are just so many good distros available these days. Doesn't stop me from using bazzite, though.
It is nice to see someone using the "Nobody:" meme format correctly.