Bazzite has a very simple process for installing software that isn’t on Flatpak: You spin up a virtual machine running a better distro and install it there

  • muhyb@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, things are different on Bazzite. You can install things via homebrew as well. For yt-dlp use brew install yt-dlp (same command for btop). If something isn’t on homebrew too, there is a distrobox option. If you get used to AUR, Bazzite can be a little tedious.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 day ago

      If you get used to AUR, Bazzite can be a little tedious.

      I just use my Arch distrobox to access AUR if I need to (though I don’t think I’ve had to).

      rpm-ostree is an adjustment, but now that I understand it more and know all of my options for installing packages, I think it’s fantastic.

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        2·
        1 day ago

        The devs recommend against using rpm-ostree but yeah, distrobox is limitless. It’s just doing things different way. I also like how Bazzite (or Aurora) adds a program as a menu shortcut installed via distrobox, pretty convenient.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          1 day ago

          I just mean learning how the ostree shit works in general for the most part. For pinning images and learning how to rollback if needed, etc.

          I try not to install things using rpm-ostree unless absolutely necessary.

          Edit: I probably should have just said “ostree” in the original comment.