57
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
57 points (96.7% liked)
Linux
57274 readers
269 users here now
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
- No misinformation
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
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.