Pft. I compile Gentoo for my GameCube, btw
Haha… No its not, but bazzite users really want it to be. :)
No issues gaming on Mint! Tried bazzite couldn’t get into it. Just doesn’t feel usable daily and to game. Mint is just too polished and convenient.
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 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 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. <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 use TempleOS btw.
Gaming like God intended
Excuse me, this is a Linux community, I’m afraid you’re going to have to leave.
/joke
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.
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 :)
But have you read the good book (Dolstra et al, 2004)?
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.
Why not just get one distro that does both?
I think you’ve always been able to?
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.
Always
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.
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.
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
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.
I use Nobara, btw.
Finally some representation.
The user base for other universal-blue distros like Aurora is way smaller so it’s actually special. I use Aurora btw.
Aurora on my work machine, Bazzite on my home machine haha
It’s on my Framework 13. 😌
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)
You are late. They moved on to CachyOS. Give it a few months and it will be a new one again.
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 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.
Guy came into my workplace this week and I was saying I was slowly getting into developing a game engine with SDL. When he heard I was using ubuntu he recommended Bazzite, saying he has no trouble with it and uses his machine mostly for gaming. Is it Debian based or something else? At least it’s not that meme distro Arch I guess, might try it
It’s Fedora based. If you want to develop on it, it supports containerized workflows. There’s a DX version explicitly designed for developers.
I use openSUSE btw.
I
useam compiling Gentoo BTWThere are dozens of us. Dozens!
I’m on Aeon. Does that count?
Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!
Same 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! :)
