New Major Features for 3.0

  • Upgraded to Fedora 40
    • KDE Plasma 6 - GNOME 46 - Linux Kernel 6.8 - AMD/Intel GPU driver upgrades
    • Ayn Loki Max Pro support
    • Ayn Loki Zero support
    • Improvements for supported handhelds
      • HHD Overlay is now stable
      • Gyro support parity with Lenovo Legion Go
      • Charge limits set for Lenovo Legion Go
      • ASUS ROG Ally custom TDP that use the kernel driver
      • Custom fan curve support for ASUS ROG Ally
    • Added CDEmu
    • Added Ollama ujust command
    • Added fastfetch
    • Added zoxide

All of that, and more details about the rest can be read on the announcement page here —> https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/announcing-bazzite-3-0/1218

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    I do have a request for help with Bazzite. In all my Gnomes I’ve always used dash-to-dock with intellihide. With Bazzite, I for some reason I just can’t understand, when I move the pointer to the bottom to have the dock come up, bazzite opens the workspaces view.

    Is there a way to disable this?

    Other than that, Bazzite has been rock solid and super customizable on my Gazelle 16.

    • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      I’ve never personally used Gnome so fotm know how to navigate it. But I am sure this is something you should be able to do disable. I’d look either in shortcuts, workspace or gesture settings maybe?

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        Thanks, but I toured the whole settings yesterday, together with Gnome Tweaks, Dconf and the dock-to-dash settings and didn’t find anything. Granted, I don’t have a great handle of Dconf, so there are things I didn’t touch to avoid messing everything else up.

        This seems to be exclusive to Bazzite Gnome. I’ve used Gnome with absolutely every distro and this has never happened before. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature I don’t like, lol.

        I guess I’ll take my chances on breaking it all and roll back if needed.

  • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today
    1·
    6 months ago

    Bazzite is my first true experience with an immutable distro, and wow, what a magical moment it was.

    I’ve been eyeing on fedora 40’s release for some time now because it fixes all the Wayland problems for Nvidia cards. One night my grandma needed some help, so I walked away from my PC, it automatically suspended, came back 30 or so minutes later, and when I logged in I was just automatically on KDE 6 with fedora 40, didn’t even reboot.

    This is truly the year of the Linux desktop.

  • PrefersAwkward@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    6 months ago

    I’ve had a lot of experience with Linux and I use Nobara currently. My only catch with Bazzite is that I didn’t know the first thing to do. It somehow felt as if most of my experience in Linux was just useless.

    Not saying it’s a bad thing, I just decided I’d stick to Nobara for now and try learning Bazzite in the future to give it a fair shake.

    I’m also a tweaker. I like to play with ZRam and add other things to the OS, like a custom kernel with BCacheFS-Git to support my gaming darastores. I suspect some of my creature comforts may be harder to get.

    • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
      1·
      6 months ago

      You could give the uBlue builder a shot, which can do exactly that.

      But I think NixOS is a better choice for a tinkerer like you :)

  • florge@feddit.uk
    0·
    6 months ago

    In case, like me, you hadn’t heard of Bazzite before:

    Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, handheld PCs, and living room home theater PCs.

    • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Have not tried immutable distros, but I like the idea that the core OS is read-only to prevent a rookie user from messing things up.

      Then again, if the core OS is read-only, is it at all possible to modify some system files like fstab files to auto-load drives?

      • j0rge@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        /etc is completely writeable. This is why we don’t use the term “immutable distros” because Bazzite and the rest of universal blue are neither immutable nor distros.

        (This is why Fedora moved to the term Atomic)

        • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Noted. I guess used the wrong definition for Bazzite and that confused me. LOL.

          Good to know that /etc is writable. I might have to download it and give it a spin. Thanks for clarifying.

    • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
      11·
      6 months ago

      It’s basically Nobara, but properly done. (If you choose the desktop version)

      It gets updates automatically (max one day after upstream Fedora), has everything you want ootb in the first start wizard, is more secure, and much more.

      I was very sceptical at first, but after trying it out, I really noticed some minor performance improvements in games and many QoL improvements, e.g. the preinstalled LACT, which allows me to set up fan curves and over-/ underclock my GPU.

      Setting up my new PC took me about half an hour maximum.

      9/10, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smooth gaming experience.