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Jeff Gerstmann tries Bazzite
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Ignore these guys. I'm on bazzite. I write kubernetes code in go/rust all day. IE a giant ass nerd Linux contributor.
Still a buggy mess. Bluetooth doesn't work oy motherboard, display doesn't work if I turn off the display, and I need to run scripts on boot to enable my audio on every boot.
Despite improvements from valve over the past few years, it's not ready for normies and these nerds will gaslight you all day.
You ain't dumb, this shit is a mess. Many times by design.
... Valve does not directly maintain or update or publish Bazzite.
Bazzite is an atomic version of Fedora, made by basically the Bazzite team... SteamOS, which is actually developed by Valve, is basically an atomic version of Arch.
Are you using Bazzite, or SteamOS?
Also: Display doesn't work if I turn off the display.
... what?
You... would you expect a thing to work if you turned it off?
Now, bluetooth not working on your mobo could be a legitimate driver compatibility issue, and it also sounds like you're having similar weirdness with your audio drivers.
What is your actual OS?
What is your actual mobo?
Bazzite is building off of the, maybe literally, billion dollars valve is pumping into the ecosystem.
As for the rest, you can't help me, driver issues. Which is the point.
Uh... I mean, kind of? Not really?
Bazzite makes significant use of Proton, which yes Valve primarily funds, though... probably more to the tune of millions to tens of millions, over its entire history so far, not... billions...
But as I said, its... mostly Fedora, with a good deal of prepackaged tweaks and prebuilt flatpaks and other systems they either manage or contribute to as a kind of functional ecosystem.
Fedora != Valve.
Anyway, I daily drive Bazzite.
I probably can help you, I've managed to fuck and unfuck myself by breaking and then fixing Bazzite more than once, by doing things they say you probably shouldn't do, and then using their provided wiki/tools/macros to fix things... and they've refined and improved their rollback command macros and such over the years.
But, you don't want to be helped, you want to complain, so, best of luck with that.
I would sooner commit sudoku than ever do anything Kubernetes, and yet shit basically just works for me. Nothing is perfect, but it's 5x better than Windows, so I'm never going back. It seems the server and desktop Linux experience doesn't quite transfer and apply that much between each other.
I'm not denying your experience to be clear. But for some people it really does work all well. Multi-monitor handling on KDE is so superior for me that I don't know how I ever dealt with whatever Windows was doing
The censorship is internalized
I thought they were just saying they'd rather solve puzzles ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Same outcome, at the limit