Does the community have any thoughts on Bazzite for a desktop gaming machine?
My primary use with be mouse and keyboard, but the deck interface looks nice for the 10% of the time I want to use a controller. I also hear that HDR and VRR work better under it then most of the DEs.
Anyone out there using Bazzite for a similar use case? I’d also be curious to here about other ways people are using it.
I used it for a while, it was pretty good until something messed up and I couldn’t fix it because of the “immutable” aspect, but if that’s a selling point for you then I’d say go for it.
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.
That’s valid, I just went with Arch and BTRFS snapshots for similar functionality, with the added benefit of being able to fix stuff and tinker a bit. Everyone’s use case is different though! I don’t hate on immutables, it’s just not my personal cup of tea.
Aye, to each their own. I went the other way, Arch -> Fedora -> Immutable Fedora, because I was sick of tinkering and wanted stability ;}
Kind of the boat I am in.
Just want my gaming desktop to work and be stable. Or at least more stable then my current rolling release, Tumbleweed.
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 updaterocks, 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!