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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
#72Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#73Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?
> Could this replace a media center like Kodi for playing music and movies or is it just for games?
I would like to know this too.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also have my steam deck on my tailnet via `services.tailscale.enable = true` on NixOS. I might have to do a comparison of NixOS and bazzite since bazzite has me curious.
Here is my "steamdeck os" https://github.com/Cloudef/nixos-flake/blob/master/modules/s...
extest is in a nixpkgs PR and SteamOS is packaged by Jovian. Any reason you're doing it all manually?
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#75Glad to see this finally up here. I posted it a couple weeks ago and was shocked that I hadn't heard of it sooner. I expected it to rocket to the top, but instead it just languished ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642298 ). I've been blown away by Bazzite. I haven't yet (so far at least) run into any downsides of being on Bazzite instead of SteamOS, yet have had numerous upsides. I've wanted my Decks to be o…
I also have my steam deck on my tailnet via `services.tailscale.enable = true` on NixOS. I might have to do a comparison of NixOS and bazzite since bazzite has me curious.
I wasn't sure whether to start with Bazzite or Jovian (NixOS), but I started with Jovian and haven't looked back.
I'd be curious to know what you find.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#76Oooh, 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…
Interesting that you don't contribute to Bazzite - your name is the only one I associate with it, because I've seen your YouTube videos.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can only speculate Valve's reasoning, but there are a very select few games that require actual case folding and not the simulated case folding that wine offers. I know of literally only one.
SteamOS dev here - lack of case folding is one (but solvable, we supported development on native case folding for ext4), but general stability issues are the main concern. Our testing with btrfs has not been promising for deploying it in a zero-maintenance manner to many users and finnicky SD cards and have it Just Work, but we're keeping an eye on things and weighing where we could contribute.
Have you done any performance testing with btrfs compression?
I have a Legion Go. I don't have the specs handy now, but the SSD was rated fast enough that I suspected compression would harm my overall performance.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also have my steam deck on my tailnet via `services.tailscale.enable = true` on NixOS. I might have to do a comparison of NixOS and bazzite since bazzite has me curious.
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!
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you say "we" do you mean other members of the Fedora community? Do any of you work at RedHat? Just wondering how you got a complex project like this up and running.
"We" is myself and two others that call ourselves maintainers, and the group at Universal Blue who brought us into their circle and shared knowledge. My personal repo at https://GitHub.com/KyleGospo/Bazzite is a time capsule of the project at it's beginning when it was only me. Universal blue has a ton of different people contributing to it, but there's no corporate backing there either.
That explains why the name seems so off brand for Universal Blue.
Re: Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
#80Makes me wonder - how viable is it to install actual SteamOS on devices that aren't the Steam Deck (and use the Deck UI and all)? Are there any mods or something to make that work?
The Deck UI is two parts: the Steam client in Big Picture Mode (which is most of the Steam Deck UI and runs on Mac and Windows as well), and the gamescope compositor. Gamescope is open source and Steam is available for download on Linux.
You could run any of the replacement Steam Deck OSes (Jovian/NixOS, Bazzite, Chimera...) and get a UI that's identical to what's on the Steam Deck, down to the "Deck Verified" badges and sidebar sliders that may not work on your machine. They're all essentially running the Steam Deck UI atop whatever distribution each one chose.
I'm not sure you'd want the literal Steam Deck image on your machine. It's an older kernel with a bunch of patches that expect the SD's hardware. But if you want to explore that more, there was an excellent article on the front page this morning about building your own clone of Steam OS.