MalReynolds@slrpnk.nettoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Thoughts on Bazzite for a desktop machine?English
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1 day agoAye, to each their own. I went the other way, Arch -> Fedora -> Immutable Fedora, because I was sick of tinkering and wanted stability ;}
Aye, to each their own. I went the other way, Arch -> Fedora -> Immutable Fedora, because I was sick of tinkering and wanted stability ;}
I’ve had a couple of things mess up, usually nvidia related (egregiously sleep, and I like sleeping my desktop), but because it’s immutable I just revert the entire OS and come back to current in a few weeks, and it’s good (not the best security-wise, but my use-case is pretty sanguine). That’s one of immutable positives. Bazzite natively supports 6 months reversion, or in a pinch you can go back to Silverblue/Kinoite.
Been around since at least early Final Fantasy / Chrono Trigger SNES era (for some values of action). Maybe Atari ‘Adventure’.
For what seems to be your use case, it should be good or better (AMD helps) and everything you need is in the tin. There are a couple of gotchas, and the doco could be better if you’re a dev, but if you’re just gaming you’ll be fine.
Try to avoid using rpm-ostree install (it’s dog slow and slows updates, you’re building an OS image after all) instead first try flatpak and then create a fedora distrobox (or arch or whatever, but fed is most in line with the base install) and dnf install from inside that (and then export to the main OS, keep it clean and it’ll be stable).
ujust update
rocks, but it updates automatically in the background (there’s at least two OS images at all times, so in the unlikely event it breaks you just revert), so don’t forget to reboot every now and then, weekly at least for security reasons.Go here for questions, there’s a discord too if you like that sort of thing. Have fun!