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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.
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Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
Press "y" before linking to a Github file/line to ensure it stays accurate https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/5e8f61a56ca3da02778...
What do you mean by "to ensure it stays accurate"? Why wouldn't it be accurate if you're just copy-pasting the link?
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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It doesn't need to, if your disk supports OPAL2 - just set the password in BIOS and encrypt the drive, it's fully transparent to the OS and as a bonus, there's virtually no performance hit unlike software-based encryption like LUKS.
You are relying on every single ssd to have a secure implementation of encryption which is just never going to be true. I’m not familiar with how the process works, but if you are setting the password somewhere, it’s exposed to being extracted. You want the password to be something you type in on boot.
Also, the password isn't stored anywhere, you get prompted by the BIOS upon every boot to unlock the drive.
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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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
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
#385I used Ubuntu for 8 years constantly fixing issues, from the day I installed it (because it didn't support basic Ryzen), after every distro upgrade, and various other random points, e.g. when installing a package whose dependency overwrote something. Each issue took hours to fix, usually searching forums for arcane command lines and trying everything until something worked (possibly breaking other things in the process).
Last year I tried Bazzite for my kid who like games and realized that it's 100x better than Ubuntu, for both gaming and serious work. It's 100x more stable and virtually unbreakable, far more modern and up-to-date than Ubuntu, and I can still do just about everything I want (just have to do it differently because it's atomic). Since I switched to Bazzite I have had zero issues, because atomic distros are inherently so much more stable. Everyone uses the exact same image, and the state of the OS is always fresh and doesn't deteriorate over time the way mutable distros do. And best of all, if any issue does come up (which is extremely rare), the fix is always the same and it takes 1 minute: boot into the previous version.
I used to avoid using my PC due to constant issues with Ubuntu, now I often switch it on simply because Bazzite makes me so happy.
It frustrates me to no end that people to this day still recommend Ubuntu and its derivatives as "good" and "user friendly" when it literally breaks all the bloody time, and meanwhile there are awesome distros like Bazzite and Aurora that are rock-solid like MacOS and ChromeOS.
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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The nice thing about atomic distros is switching operating systems is as easy as typing 'ostree rebase', and registering a secure boot key. So if Bazzite did go that way you could have fedora running in under an hour and with flatpak most thing will just work.
As I understand 'ostree rebase' between KDE and Gnome will lead to broken system.
You can still fix them manually though, although that's probably not worth the effort in most cases
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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Mint does support upgrading the OS, both to minor and major versions. I personally installed Mint in 2014 and used the upgrade path until a month ago, when my distro finally started showing bad signs of being experimented on (by me, for 11 years) and it was easier to do a fresh install instead.
I know the OS itself does, I meant it wasn't recommended by the team. See these instructions written by the founder Clement himself, especially under section E where they say " We do not even recommend this on the command line, so to have it triggered from the click of a button is just not acceptable to us. It's easy alright, but it's not the right solution. " https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
Read the official blog with installation instructions. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4882
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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Any particular reason you didn't like Bazzite as a daily driver? I've been considering replacing Fedora with it on my main laptop.
I admit didn't spend a lot of time with it, but right after installing it, I needed to work on a project with Platform.io in VSCode. What was a 10 minute process in Zorin (mainly due to not using Flatpaks) didn't work out after over an hour in Bazzite. Also, Bazzite takes over 2 minutes to boot, while Zorin takes less than 20 seconds. I'm pretty new to Linux as a daily driver, and need a stable base that I'm familiar…
On my 3.5yr old ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 with the stock SSD, if takes exactly 34 seconds to cold boot to the full desktop (KDE) from the boot menu (I have enabled auto-logon), which I find acceptable. Warm boot is 30 seconds.
So there might me something odd about your setup. Are you using nVidia by any chance?
As for VScode, I'm not familiar with platform.io but you really want to be using dev containers. On uBlue distros, Distrobox makes this easy. Just follow the guide here: https://distrobox.it/posts/integrate_vscode_distrobox/
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know the OS itself does, I meant it wasn't recommended by the team. See these instructions written by the founder Clement himself, especially under section E where they say " We do not even recommend this on the command line, so to have it triggered from the click of a button is just not acceptable to us. It's easy alright, but it's not the right solution. " https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
This was 9 years ago... Read the official blog with installation instructions. https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4882
Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
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Weird, I’m from the same era, and a predominantly Windows user, but I have zero complaints about Linux gaming on my Steam Deck.
Well, that's apples and oranges. I was playing starcraft on wine earlier this year and there were constant freezes and crashes on new hardware.
Vanilla Wine is a bit of a rough experience, I'd only recommend it for advanced users who know what they're doing.