What’s New & Improved Bazzite is now based on Fedora 45! GNOME 51.1 and KDE 6.8.2 Updated OGC kernels to 7.2.15 and 6.18.60 for NVIDIA LTS images. Mesa 26.2.6. Latest and greatest InputPlumber. Optional gaming networking optimization via bpftune and bpfrag services. ROCM OpenCL is now used over Mesa OpenCL on all non-nvidia images. XWaylandVideoBridge has been removed, fixing an entire class of bugs on our KDE images. Acer Predator Atlas 8 initial support: InputPlumber support, Quick Acce...
No, I’m still on a nvidia card and I’m not sure what version hdmi my monitor is
My comment is more general vibe of my experience with bazzite. similar to what Staff below me said, sometimes it just have some weird inconvenient ways to do things when I need to, for example, use the terminal to look up some folders or change things. idk I admit I’m still not too good doing things in the terminal but adding another layer of having to learn what an immutable distro adds on top seems to be tripping me more.
Staff criticized a very specific thing, not a vibe: the approach for installing software.
You don’t really need to use the terminal at all if you just stick with the software that’s available in flatpak / bazaar. If you had to use the terminal then that means you most likely wanted to install software / tweak stuff outside of the intended channels.
I don’t think Bazzite is very suitable as an all-purpose distro or a distro for people who want to tweak or use the terminal much, it was originally designed as a SteamOS distro (before Valve made available their own SteamOS image), intended to be installed in Steam Deck / Steam Box style devices. I use it in a living room PC for gaming and watching videos and it works perfectly for this usecase. For desktop / laptop I run a different Linux distro.
I see I misunderstood what Staff said, thanks.
Yeah, I think you’re right. Maybe bazzite isn’t for me. I just have that tinker itch every now and then.
And hey, a live service game I’m playing recently had a massive hack that many people affected had to reinstall their OS just for self assurance. That somehow also could affect people running Linux. So I might as well hop to another distro this weekend.
I do not have an Nivida card, but I udnerstand Nvidia on bazzite (and linux in general) is tougher than AMD to get things working nicely. As for the terminal, I have never once NEEDED to use to terminal in the last year. I have of course used it to do things, but it was rarely the Only way to do what I was trying to do.
Maybe what I am about to say is unpopular, but once I stopped trying to install programs that dont have a flapak from the bazzar store, my life got easier. Of course to counter that statement, I have several programs that are appimages that I control via Gearlevel, then a few windows apps running via faugus.
Also if anything tells you to use lutris, it is wrong, lutris imo is crap, and should not be sued ever; Lutris has not worked once for me.