Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming • Hacker News Board

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by hulitu » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 11:13 AM UTC

amoss wrote: post #311

jtrn wrote: post #255

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That could apply to everything from some sort of software service, to a game installer, to a streaming service, to an App Store for cross-platform games. You have to take into account the chaos that is the Internet and the promotional material shit storm of marketing speak. A sentence extremely close to this could easily be found on the top of the Razer Synapse promotional page. Why not lead with a simple description…

The first text on the page says: > The operating system for the next generation of gamers

> The first text on the page says:

> > The operating system for the next generation of gamers

This doesn't say anything.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by suspended_state » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 10:56 PM UTC

GaryBluto wrote: post #312

suspended_state wrote: post #310

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I'm reading it on my computer, and it's perfectly fine; yet, how would it look like on a smartphone?

I shrunk my window's width and it still looked fine.

It is true that it amounts to the same number of words, so why would it look more like a wall of text when the text is narrower? Perhaps it has to do with the number of lines?

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by vips7L » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:47 AM UTC

ZordonShumway wrote: post #399

vips7L wrote: post #367

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Yeah that’s 2 different models and at least 1 time that I have to toss my entire system. Nintendos had 3 generations in that time and Xbox has had countless churn in its hardware.

You are aware that old consoles still play games, right? My PS4 still plays all my PS4 games and lets me stream PS5 games to from my living room to my bedroom. My Xbox 360 still plays games just fine last time I checked (last June or so). Getting rid of old consoles doesn’t make sense unless you absolutely have to have the latest tech and also don’t have much storage space.

You’re aware my computer still plays games from the 90s right? AND it plays the new games without having to buy a whole new platform.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by UK-Al05 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:45 AM UTC

tapoxi wrote: post #84

UK-Al05 wrote: post #71

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I think that's changed recently. Recent release notes state it's added support for RDNA4

VKD3D-Proton gained FSR4 support and will ship in a future release of Proton, but RDNA4 requires a newer kernel. SteamOS release notes are public at https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news , it still uses a 6.11 kernel from September 2024.

This youtuber has the 9070XT working on the latest steamos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6-R6XtCUQ&pp=ygUXZXRhIHBya....

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by thegeekpirate » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 12:12 PM UTC

flakes wrote: post #167

thegeekpirate wrote: post #147

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Press "y" before linking to a Github file/line to ensure it stays accurate https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/5e8f61a56ca3da02778...

I had no idea there was a hotkey for that. Thank you!

My pleasure!

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by Lockal » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:05 PM UTC

A bit of salt from me. This is why I don't like target-audience-optimized distributions.

Problem statement: speaker do not work properly (Asus Rog Z13 in my case).

Here what Bazzite does: obtains a firmware _somewhere_, stores in a no-license personal repo with a promise to rewrite repo history and purge files within 5 business days on contact, builds Bazzite-only installation script and pulls it in a main repo[1]. Users after that say, that Bazzite is the only distro where it works out-of-the-box.

Here what I did: contacted linux-firmware, was redirected by Mario Limonciello to Cirrus, contacted few Cirrus people who commit these firmwares, got response the same day. Same day Asus Rog Z13 firmwares were added to linux-firmware[2]. Was it simple? Hell yes. Why other people prefer to reverse-engineer instead? Today users say that Bazzite is the best, tomorrow they will see the price of this smoothness and it will turn into another Ventoy-style drama[3].

[1] https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/ad5704b87388fbde7e3...

[2] https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/0...

[3] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by Covenant0028 » Fri, Dec 05, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #336

Covenant0028 wrote: post #229

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So it is the company prioritising their bottom line at the expense of their customer's computers. More simply, they move cost from their balance sheet and convert it into risk on the customer's end. Which is actively customer-abusive behavior and customers should treat it with the contempt it deserves. The fact that customers don't, is what enables such abuse.

This is such a weird take. In an online multiplayer game the cheaters are the risk to the company's bottom line. If a game is rampant with cheaters, honest paying players stop showing up, and less new players sign up. The relatively small percentage of cheaters cost the company tons of sales and revenue. It is actively in a company's best interest to do everything they possibly can to prevent cheating, so the idea th…

I'll quote what the person I responded to said:

> because most companies will make decisions based on time/effort/profitability, and because client-side anticheat is stupid simple and cheap, that's what they go with. Why waste their own server resources, when they can waste the user's?

And my comment was a response to that statement. In context of that statement, companies are indeed choosing to prioritise their commercial interests in a way that increases the risk to the computers of their customers.

> Not to mention these abstract "the company" positions completely ignore all the passionate people who actually make video games

Irrelevant. Companies and their employees are two different distinct entities and a statement made about one does not automatically implicate the other. Claiming, for example, that Ubisoft enables a consistent culture of sexual harassment does not mean random employees of that company are automatically labeled as harassers.

Coming to anti-cheat, go ahead and fight them all you want. That's not a problem. Demanding the right to introduce a security backdoor into your customer's machines in order to do that, is the problem.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by _cenw » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 1:26 PM UTC

thegeekpirate wrote: post #147

KyleGospo wrote: post #94

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Fork and remove this line: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile#... Note that we remove rpm Firefox for security reasons. You do not want your browser to only update with your entire operating system.

Press "y" before linking to a Github file/line to ensure it stays accurate https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/5e8f61a56ca3da02778...

This is cool, but also broken. If you click "raw" after pressing y without reloading, the link is still to a tag/branch.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by gfaster » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 5:38 PM UTC

rounce wrote: post #263

gfaster wrote: post #238

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Ironically, I'm considering installing Bazzite alongside NixOS because it's proven to be nearly impossible to run SteamVR properly with how Steam is packaged

From what I’ve seen so far from people I know who run Valve Indexes, Linux SteamVR performance is pretty poor compared with Monado+OpenComposite. Hopefully this situation changes with the release of the Frame, in which case I (and likely others) will be revamping the SteamVR package and NixOS modules as Monado may not fully support it for some time. Tl;dr: Run Monado w/ OpenComposite for the Index, it runs way better…

Dropping back here to say that I have been playing around with Monado + OpenComposite + WlxOverlay and while it's been plenty janky, it has actually usable performance when it works.

Thanks for the information~