I use Fedora which is Bazzite with different preinstalled bloat
Can easily make your own Bazzite FROM Silverblue.
B-b-but NixOS!
But have you read The Good Book (Dolstra et al, 2004)?
Rightfully so!
(I use Bazzite btw)
It’s honestly so easy to get into and works, I’m honestly surprised it isn’t suggested more!
(I use bazzite btw)
I use Windows BTW.
For work. They force me to 😭
Please send help!It could be worse. You could be stuck with legacy or embedded windows shudders
The worst thing is it is legacy, but it’s legacy Java. Why on earth am I developing with Windows?
Just leave a penguin’s head in your boss’ bed
/joke
I love penguins. Can’t I just put a broken window in there?
Well, use a whole penguin then
/joke
The window it is. I’ll add extra shards as a garnish.
Your it guy gets a window?!
Imagine not using Hannah Montana Linux. I literally can’t do it. Why would you use anything else when all the other distros are so inferior?
Imagine using Linux when you can use TempleOS.
I tried that once, my computer caught fire then told me to kill my son,
I don’t even have a sonthink I’ll just stick to linux
Holy C is too much, I am not worthy
The user base for other universal-blue distros like Aurora is way smaller so it’s actually special. I use Aurora btw.
It’s on my Framework 13. 😌
Aurora on my work machine, Bazzite on my home machine haha
You are late. They moved on to CachyOS. Give it a few months and it will be a new one again.
I did move on to CachyOS lmao.
but in my defense, it’s because the CachyOS people in matrix wouldn’t shut up about how good it was.
In which ways is it better? right now I’m defaulting to bazzite for my desktop as I already got a steam deck.
Well I can’t speak for everyone, but I noticed significant gains in a couple of the games I played when switching. Specifically Minecraft and Dune: Awakening. I’m getting upwards of 100fps in Minecraft with BSL shaders on ultra now, and I’m playing on a laptop. When I was on Bazzite I was getting less than 60fps with shaders, so I didn’t use them at all.
Depending on the DE you pick, it can be pretty good on the battery life too.
Dammit I really did just recommend CachyOS to someone, although I also like OpenSUSE!
openSUSE Tumbleweed made me love my computer again. It also games like I’m not even missing anything from Windoze. NVIDIA GPU and everything. I’m sure there are “better” distros, but openSUSE was the one that got me to stay, and I couldn’t be happier!
I use TempleOS btw.
Gaming like God intended
The developer died in 2018 BTW
That’s ok. TempleOS is not just an operating system. It’s a spiritual experience. Also, it’s not like he would have made it useful if he kept working on it.
Excuse me, this is a Linux community, I’m afraid you’re going to have to leave.
/joke
I feel called out, “I use Bazzite btw” is literally a joke I made irl last week.
Some Bazzite users touch grass and talk to people IRL, surprising, I know.
I use openSUSE btw.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I’m on Aeon. Does that count?
Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!
I
useam compiling Gentoo BTWSame here, for over a year! Made me love Linux, and computing again! Even games like I’m not missing anything from Windoze, and that’s all I really needed! :)
Don’t know what’s all the fuss about (I use mint btw)
Did you test it?
No, haven’t tested bazzite. I’m sure it’s great as I’ve heard good things about it. My comment was just a joke comment since we are in a meme community (but I do actually use mint, btw)
Ahh, I didn’t see that! Sorry 👻
No worries :)
Can you dual boot it yet with other linuxes? I want to split gaming and productivity.
You can, if you know how to configure grub.
Yeah you need to tell grub-mkconfig in /etc/default/grub to run the os-prober on everything during updates and put it in the cfg, but bazzite is immutable and seems to be only configured for parallel windows and it’s own version history. If i read the docs correctly, screenshot in other comment.
Is Bazzite better for gaming? What are you running currently?
Its not better per se compared to other Linuxes for gaming, just pre-configured to take a lot of the basic setup work out of it for you.
What setup? AMD BTW. Just install steam and go…
You don’t own your games you “bought” on Steam so… no
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.
Yeah, basically the only thing I really use the terminal for is
ujust, a series of scripts maintained by Bazzite themselves. And ujust does have a script to install a GUI fan controller app, btw, which I’ve used to setup my own fan curves, and found it pretty darn usable despite it being the first time I’ve done such a thing.The OS is immutable, so you’re probably right that lower level tasks are harder, but Bazzite themselves have stepped in and created a dedicated command for pretty much anything finicky I’ve thought to do in the past year or so.
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:
Always
Have you done it? With grub not bios switching efi partitions?
Why not just get one distro that does both?
I’m more productive if I have to reboot between work and leisure.
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
Quote
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. <sub><sup>(Only on KDE)</sup></sub>
- 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. <sub><sup>(Available but default-disabled on the Deck variant, may be enabled with
ujust restore-input-remapper)</sup></sub> - 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 <sub><sup>(HD 7000)</sup></sub> and Sea Islands <sub><sup>(HD 8000)</sup></sub> 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
Did you just pull a “i use bootc, btw” on me?!
I mean, yeah? You didn’t understand the usecase so I provided mine? I don’t see the issue.
I use Nobara, btw.
Finally some representation.
