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Bazzite comes ready to rock with Steam and Lutris pre-installed, HDR support, BORE CPU scheduler for smooth and responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools for your gaming needs.

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[-] electro1@infosec.pub 4 points 4 months ago

the idea of a console like layout ( Ui ) Out of the box ( if you so choose ) is awesome..

but that installer 😮‍💨

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

What about the installer? Anaconda isn't great, but you only need about 1 minute to set the options to install and then let it do it's job before rebooting.

[-] electro1@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago

I can endure it, but it's kinda confusing and looks outdated.. I hope they make a new one like Ubuntu did

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Anyone able to give an ELI5 to a linux noob? I'm struggling to find what the benefit is of Fedora's atomic builds (is it just containerised apps? Is this an immutable distro?)....and then also what the benefit of Bazzite is on top of Fedora's atomic spins?

Are immutable distros good for daily driving?

[-] Onihikage@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago

The ELI5 for Fedora's atomic desktops is that if Windows had an Atomic Desktop version, Program Files and most of the Windows folder would be read only, and each program you installed yourself would go into its own folder in your user directory. That's the basic idea. It's harder to screw up an Atomic system as long as you stick to containerized app formats like flatpak/appimage whenever possible. It makes it easier for everyone to diagnose problems, and easier for users to roll back if an update has problems. Even if you were to install it right now, you could use one simple command to "roll back" to any image from the last three months.

The benefit of Bazzite is you have all of the above, plus a lot of gaming-related stuff preinstalled which, if you were to install them yourself in a normal Fedora environment, you'd likely have to spend a lot of time just learning how they're supposed to be configured, how they interact, which versions have problems, and how to troubleshoot problems when an update to one app breaks a prerequisite for something else; eventually you end up in config hell instead of actually using your computer. With Bazzite, the image maintainers are the ones in config hell - they work out the kinks, app versioning, communicate with upstream to fix issues, all that, so your system should be in the most functional state that a Linux system can be, so you only have to think about using your apps.

tl;dr

  • Atomic Desktops are more resilient to randomly breaking from updates or user error, and are easier to revert to a prior state if problems do arise
  • Bazzite is a custom Atomic image with lots of gaming stuff preinstalled and preconfigured to work properly out of the box
  • If you're a gamer and wanting to try out Linux, Bazzite is going to be the least painful way to get your feet wet.
  • Immutable distros are excellent for daily driving. I daily drive one myself!
[-] Yor@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

hmm, may check this out tho I've already made mint work to pretty well for gaming

[-] BannanaLama@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Has someone tried Steam VR with an Index on Bazzite? How well does it run?

I tried some setups with Steam VR, as Steam inside Flatpak is not supported and not working, but even when installed via deb it can require some restarts and be janky.

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