Earlier quoted context omitted.
JovianOS is also similar to Bazzite, ChimeraOS and SteamOS but its based on Nix.
I can’t find anything online about this one (Jovian). Do you have a link at hand? Happy new year!
Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
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Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#102Can anyone report how well this would work on a pure touch device (tablet)? I have a Thinkpad X1 Tablet (gen3) and am still looking for the best Linux distribution to work with it as a plain tablet, without the keyboard attached. Plain Fedora has some very annoying bugs with the on-screen keyboard. Installing the Phosh extension fixed most of these, but this introduces other annoying things that make it tedious to us…
Not sure if you are to do any super sensitive work on the tablet or not. But a home folder encryption rather than full disk might solve the touch input problem.
We're working on porting unl0kr from postmarketOS to Fedora to allow for LUKS on the Steam Deck without an external keyboard, that should also work well for a tablet use case once it's done.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#103Love it! Living-room media servers will be the Trojan horse that brings self-hosting back into existence, and will inevitably transform the internet back into a more peer-to-peer oriented existence. Once most folks have symmetrical connections and powerful Linux systems, it’s only a software problem keeping people from using the internet as it was intended, equally publishers as they are consumers.
> Living-room media servers will be the Trojan horse that brings self-hosting back into existence…
I had a living-room media server for many years. My recommendation: Don't put a media server in your living room.
Instead, get a tiny, quiet, privacy-respecting client (e.g. Apple TV) and put the media on a NAS that lives elsewhere. Depending on your preferred client UX, you may (Plex) or may not (Infuse) need a separate app to serve the media.
Whether the server lives in your living room or office/homelab doesn't really matter in terms of its effect on the popularity of "self-hosting". If anything, local media library management is likely to become less popular, and any "Trojan horse" effect has happened by now since people have been doing this for a couple of decades.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#104I would love to hear how people are building HTPC/media streaming setups using this kind of stack in 2024. I am very interested in replacing all my aging fire sticks with something custom built. Was considering just doing some RPi based dongles on bedroom TVs and a higher spec gaming PC with Steam Big Picture on the main TV, but with all the innovation recently I feel a bit of choice paralysis. Anyone willing to shar…
I did the HTPC thing for many years. Finally, I just got tired of the noise, heat, and occasional maintenance requirements of having a PC in the media room.
My recommendation: Get a tiny, quiet, privacy-respecting client (e.g. Apple TV) and put the media on a NAS that lives elsewhere. Depending on your preferred client UX, you may (Plex) or may not (Infuse) need a separate app to serve the media.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#105Oooh, looks cool ! I was just googling for something like "pc with steamdeck like specs" because I don't need the portability, I can't stand fan noise but I'd like Steam's ease of use. Now there is a path to a "normal"/quiet/dedicated PC to easily run games. But I suppose there won't be optimizations for any combinations of GPU/CPU/RAM like Valve and AMD do for the Steamdeck ? Also: > - Comes with patches from SteamO…
> But I suppose there won't be optimizations for any combinations of GPU/CPU/RAM like Valve and AMD do for the Steamdeck? I run a homegrown gaming htpc with an R5-5600, Radeon 6800XT, and then the Xbox wireless dongle and 4 Xbone controllers with Bazzite. You'd be surprised at how much of heavy lifting is done by the kernel and mesa stacks, that's where the real work is done. Fedora does a good job pulling in kernel…
Totally off point, but as a gardener and systems builder, I love
phrase "homegrown gaming htpc" gives it a sense of organically growing over time.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#106Love it! Living-room media servers will be the Trojan horse that brings self-hosting back into existence, and will inevitably transform the internet back into a more peer-to-peer oriented existence. Once most folks have symmetrical connections and powerful Linux systems, it’s only a software problem keeping people from using the internet as it was intended, equally publishers as they are consumers.
I've tried at several points to roll my own media center PC/server setup and it's always been a very far cry from what the fire stick does for like a tenth the price and zero effort. So yeah, I'm very keen for something plug and play in this space.
Piracy is super evil and I would never and have never pirated anything in my life. but I do know that Stremio + Torrentio + RealDebrid takes at max 30 minutes to set up and for a few bucks you can essentially stream everything in higher quality than most streaming platforms, it works great on a google tv chromecast (a friend told me).
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does content-addressed mean?
The identifier for the content (image layers + manifest) is the hash of the content, and the has serves as an "address", the registry repo + tag is basically a pointer to a hash.
Thank you. Would other type of addressing be something like offset-based or address-based? Just trying to imagine different ways a file can be packed as I never gave it much thought.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've tried at several points to roll my own media center PC/server setup and it's always been a very far cry from what the fire stick does for like a tenth the price and zero effort. So yeah, I'm very keen for something plug and play in this space.
Piracy is super evil and I would never and have never pirated anything in my life. but I do know that Stremio + Torrentio + RealDebrid takes at max 30 minutes to set up and for a few bucks you can essentially stream everything in higher quality than most streaming platforms, it works great on a google tv chromecast (a friend told me).
I prefer legal options whenever available, but most of the time the movie/series just never was available in my country, or is no longer available.
Anyways, in my country it's legal to download for personal use.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
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Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The identifier for the content (image layers + manifest) is the hash of the content, and the has serves as an "address", the registry repo + tag is basically a pointer to a hash.
Thank you. Would other type of addressing be something like offset-based or address-based? Just trying to imagine different ways a file can be packed as I never gave it much thought.
I'm pretty sure it's just the difference between a file being named foo.tar.gz and (SHA-256 of the file).tar.gz[0] - the content and storage are the same, it's just that the canonical name is a hash of the contents rather than being arbitrary.
[0] ex. 1324cca9ed1d8267363ef6c835ca251bd810c21c49b2acc00e02d607c95ef9ad.tar.gz