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.

  • Auzy@beehaw.org
    11·
    4 months ago

    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

    • jack@monero.town
      8·
      4 months ago

      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

      • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        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.

        • Piece_Maker@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          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.

    • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      4 months ago

      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

      • Auzy@beehaw.org
        3·
        4 months ago

        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