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I....I don't understand. Why would you use Bazzite for software development and not gaming when user is not a gamer but just likes KDE?
you can literally put KDE on anything. Bazzite isn't friendly to installing anything that isn't a flatpak or whatever.
Just use a different distro. you don't need Bazzite. Switch them to like Fedora KDE or something.
And to people in this thread trying to push a camel through a pin hole...why? you're talking about setting up VMs and Distroboxs or just using flatpaks on Bazzite when the most painless solution is to just switch distros.
You picked the wrong distro, just switch them to something more appropriate for what they want to do.
I'm a software developer first and a gamer second. Being a "gaming" distro does not detract from anything else, really. It just means that getting proper GPU acceleration is easy, and you're likely to want that for development too. That was actually why I chose Bazzite. I was tired of wrestling with CUDA and ROCm.
It's not "gaming" vs "developing". That's a false dichotomy.
The real choice is immutable vs traditional. And I'll admit, immutable distros have a big learning curve. But it forces you to learn techniques that will make your life easier no matter where you go. The time I spent wrestling with dependencies on Debian or Ubuntu or OpenSuse just because I didn't know about Distrobox...
Unless your needs are very narrow and unchanging, you're likely to run into something that's a giant pain in the ass no matter which distro you choose. I used to use Ubuntu LTSR so I could install a few big things in easy mode, but it made everything else harder because it was so outdated. Switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed and everything was modern but those few vendors don't support it so I had to wrestle with dependencies.
The answer to this problem is Distrobox. It's the answer on Ubuntu, it's the answer on OpenSuse, and it's the answer on Bazzite. I'm never going back to dependency hell because I can just run everything the environment it is specifically designed for.
If you're wondering "should I use distro X, Y, or Z", the answer is simply "yes". :D
This is me and i second all of this
Yeah, I don't understand OP's post, in good part because it's really not saying anything, just mentioning some vague "problems!", what are those problems, that distrobox can't handle?
He fell for the memes.
To give some context to this.
Bazzite is an immutable distro. Fedora calls them atomic. It means many many things are only really updatable online, and you arent allowed to make manual changes to them. Hence immutable.
Bazzite is a very bad choice if you want the same kind of use you'd get out of a windows or mint machine, or any other non atomic distro.
The shitty news here is if you want a machine you're doing software dev on you're going to need to figure out the nvidia driver shit, which is a pain in the ass but if you're a software developer you should be able to do it.
Or just go with a arch derivative that packages Nvidia driver like endeavorOS
Just installed endeavorOS from Ubuntu Studio (new Linux user as of about 3 months ago). Do you know if there's a way to add the packages after install? I thought I selected the nvidia install, but it was using integrated graphics so maybe not, so I did some manual installs with nvidia-inst like --prime. It seems to be using driver 580 now instead of nouveau.
I was hoping another distro might fix an issue in Studio with DaVinci Resolve not showing video, but the same issue persists in endeavourOS (keeps saying gpu is low on memory). Running from terminal DRI_PRIME=1 to set it on performance mode doesn't help so I'm wondering if it's a full on Resolve issue. I'd rather not reinstall endeavourOS and lose everything I've done if it's possible the OS can do some nvidia magic after install.
But did u install cuda package davinci not working without it ,to have less pain just install nvidia-dkms package,and about dynamic switching exist tool like switecherootctl ,but davinxi smart enough already it can detect multi GPU setup and gonna use card which it like more,so in ur case it gonna use nvidia.I just guess u don't have installed cuda,and there zero literally magic actually ,u just need two package from nvidia which I already mentioned
Yeah, I have CUDA. I had it working at one point with the Nvidia 550 driver on Studio, but 570 and 580 results in no video. 550 had a few plasma issues (plasma freezing) which is why I didn't want to use it. I tried rolling back but 550 is no longer an option in software sources on Ubuntu Studio (I keep seeing warnings from people about installing drivers outside of driver management), and it seems like endeavorOS doesn't use driver management like Studio does so it has me on 580.
Resolve keeps saying GPU memory is full. Best I can tell it's a driver specific issue as it did work on 550. I've been using Blender instead but would love to get the Resolve issue sorted without having to roll back to 550 and have plasma freeze every hour. I'm hesitant about installing 550 from terminal on endeavorOS as endeavor seems to do things different and I'm new to Linux overall.
Oh about memory I also found out that resolve on some version of nvidia driver cannot clear memory allocations when using effects
Interesting, thank you. This happens with the timeline without effects but I'll look into it.
Funnily enough I just had a big plasma issue on Studio and had to get back up and running with x11, Wayland is just gone. Video issues aren't present in x11 haha
The dev-focused atomic Fedora variants solve all Nvidia issues for you, there's no reason why you should trouble yourself with it.
TIL
Yeah, I found out the hard way as a new user. Maybe it would be better to move to Fedora and set up everything myself. Bazzite might be perfect for consoles, but for desktop use it limits you a lot, even for normal usage, not just for software development.
For example? Because I've read this repeated a lot by people who don't understand immutable distros. Of course you can't "dnf install clang", but you can use distrobox for that, ends up fairly similar.
Well, maybe i used a wrong phrase. When i said it limits you, i mean you (as a new user) must learn how to use the system. Any solutions you find from others in the internet do not apply to you. For a power user who frequently tinkers things feels like a limitation (it feels more like i am using my android phone rather than a desktop computer).
The distro as I said, it is perfect for a Console (or simple users like my parents), but for users who want more freedom its a bad choice. The mistake was mine as i did not know what the Atomic system is. First time i learned about them was after 2 days of having Bazzite installed 😅
Well I disagree. I tried Bazzite on my desktop and then installed it on my laptop, even though I seldom play games on it. I'm a long-time Linux user and a tinkerer, and so far I haven't found anything I wanted to do and I couldn't.
I can compile software with compilers from distrobox, I can design and slice 3d parts and send them to my printers, manage my servers, customize my system... Sure you can't easily change your DE, although I guess it would be somewhat possible with rpm-ostree, but other than that I don't see many limitations.
The main difference is that you should refer to Bazzite's docs FIRST, because if you just search the web for your issue/goal, you're going to find instructions that may not be compatible with an immutable distro.
Well i am new user. Now I'm learning how to use this distrobox, so i can install something that would be a copy paste from a git-hub page. Maybe this tool is the solution to my problems.
If you explain, maybe I can point you in the right direction
Well i try to install FAF on Linux. I set a container for fedora 41 and installed the prerequisites with the terminal from the container. So far all good. But when i run the ./setup.sh (step 4) i get
Maybe i will check it later with clear mind.
Found this on the issue tracker, it tells you to try deleting the wine prefix, also from the error it does seem like a wine problem (can't load a dll, those are windows libraries), not a system problem.
So right now you're on Bazzite? And you've run this in distrobox on a fedora container? What happens if you run it directly on Bazzite, ignoring the dependency installation (those packages are all already on Bazzite, if you want you can check yourself with
rpm --query --all | grep -i packagename).BTW, asking for help is an option, they have a discord.
Yeah i saw it too, but could not understand the solution of deleting the prefix. If i run it directly on Bazzite's terminal it runs on the same issue. From discord i found out that running rm -rf prefix before the script completes the setup successfully. The client runs YAY! Haven't run the game yet. Gonna try that tomorrow. Thanks
It only limits you if you expect things to work exactly the same as with any other distro. If you spend some time reading up on how it expects you to solve different tasks, it doesn't limit you for 99+% of scenarios.