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Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming
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I tried it. Gave up and moved to regular fedora at the end. I didn't see any real benefits personally
I did like many of the ideas, like gamescope is built in. But I think I had minor issues
Biggest benefit for me is automatic updates in the background which are also safe. On a normal distro, if your pc shuts down for whatever reason during kernel updates you have an unbootable system. That can't happen on bazzite
Just ran into this exact problem this morning which was incredibly frustrating. Performed a routine system update, and I'm pretty sure I had a kernel panic (all input was non responsive, couldn't even switch to a tty) in the middle of pacman's upgrade phase.
While I was able to chroot into my install and reinstall the kernel, half of my system's packages were left in an inconsistent state so I still couldn't properly boot - and so I just nuked my root subvolume and reinstalled Arch (I suspect I could've somehow got the packages reinstalled if I wrangled for a while with pacman but it was just easier to reinstall at this point).
Atomic distros like Bazzite are designed to prevent that exact situation I ran into, unfortunately I just haven't had enough time or energy to try to make my own custom image that has what I need in it (got kind of close with NixOS but that had its own issues), otherwise I'd probably be running that.
Another unsung nicety related to this one is that you can fully update your system but only start using it once you reboot. Too many times I updated the kernel on Arch only to find everything stopped working until I rebooted, hence why routine updates can just be done automatically with no issues to the user.
Same here. Ir's very bloated. You can decide on what to install,but if you do install all that bloat,you need to be prepared. I tried their AMD GPU overclock tool and after a got a black screen, I ended up with missing packages. Immediately went back to Arch.
Edit:words
I think I tried emudeck and it wouldn't install. But that wasn't their issue (turned out to be a regression upstream).
I think I had stuttering sound in audio too. But that's via HDMI.
Spdif no issue
I also used another gaming distro though so might be confusing them
They should absolutely keep developing it. It will only get better, and I'm a unique case because I've been using Linux probably since 1998 or so.
But I feel they make things a bit more custom, and it will only get better. It has a lot of potential, and is probably the best option already for many people