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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 and living room home theater PCs.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who finds these names 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly "Bazzi" means "game" in Farsi 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'Spins' on Fedora Silverblue had -for some time- been following a naming scheme that involved picking the name of a blue mineral that ended on "ite". We see this in for example its KDE-spin Fedora Kinoite -which (inadvertently) happens to be the one starting this trend- and the unofficial spins of Vauxite (Xfce), Sodalite (Pantheon) and thus Bazzite (Gaming/Steam Deck). However, the official Sway-spin (Fedora Sericea) and the upcoming Budgie-spin (Fedora Onyx) don't quite follow this naming scheme 😅.

Yes, ideally a naming scheme that's a lot more descriptive would be awesome; like say Fedora Atomic GNOME or Fedora Atomic KDE etc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

that’s described on the webpage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm as skeptical as you are, but at least they automatically preinstall a few useful gaming apps by default, ie. LatencyFlex.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn't be happier.

It's great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I kinda hope not, to be honest. Unless there could be an easy way to get tiling window managers working. It's easy on NixOS, another immutable distro, but it's definitely not as easy on something like Silverblue.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can totally use one of the tiling window manager images (sericea is based around sway) -- it wouldn't be a ton of work for that to be added to bazzite, it's just another parameter in the matrix, feel free to hop into github and help out, I'm sure people will want lots of options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're the main developer of UBlue, right? 🤩

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's a base image of ublue, which is Silverblue without a DE. I'd suppose you can mostly just layer e.g. Sway or i3 on top.

Traditional package model will still have it's usage, of course, I agree. But if Silverblue works for a developer like me, I'd say a for more "regular" users immutable distros seem like a very viable option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ironically, Fedora's setup becoming the future of Linux makes it easier to tinker.

OCI images used in immutable distros such as Bazzite are very easily customizable and are much safer to tinker with. If you mess up with packages, you can roll back to the previous state and fix it. Mutable distros are also like this, but the recovery process is much more complicated and leaves leftovers in the long run.

See the Tinkerers' Guide for more details.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What the hell is an immutable OS?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Base system is not changeable. you install user apps etc and those are separate from the root system that remains identical.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This video on steam os which is also immutable went over it: https://youtu.be/gwUf8pwoA5U?si=RlbN0pDnAgEGa-uf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking of doing a fresh install on my gaming rig. I might give this a try. I've been wanting to dig into Universal Blue for a while and this seems like a good place to start!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting might have to give this a go in a dual boot.