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
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
You could have just made a Debian distrobox
I wanted Debian over Bazzite.
I’m not a fan of Bazzite.
But why, though? Why not just use the better distro directly?
Because I play games on my PC and bazzite works wonderfully for that right out of the box?
Because I like the concept of an immutable distro and not having to ever worry about an update breaking my install, and not being able to boot to my desktop ever again?
What makes it a “better distro” exactly?
Also, I can install/run packages from any other distro and package manager from there, not just “the better distro.” I use it to access the AUR for example. There aren’t many limitations there at all. While also being incredibly stable…
I have nvidia, so Debian works better for gaming personally
Well, I can’t speak to that as I have no experience with it. I do know that bazzite has a couple preconfigured “ujust” commands related to setting up nvidia drivers. No idea how well it works.
Bazzite desktop seems to be completely usable with a 20XX+ card. It’s Gaming Mode that boots straight into steam big picture mode that where all of the issues lie.
Cards below do suffer even on desktop though and can regularly crash due to an instability in their drivers when using wayland.
Because it’s a lot easier to get Bazzite running Debian than Debian running PC games. This ain’t the 90’s, gaming on Linux doesn’t need to be hard just so you can call youself a 1337 Linux haxor.
Are you a Bazzite dev?
It’s okay, I promise we still like Bazzite. We’re just haha-ing over here, nothing personal.
I am not, I just really like it lol… And people seem to have lots of misconceptions about it so I like to try to clear that stuff up when I see it.
As a long time Linux user, I can relate 100%
I moved to Cachy for my Ally now. It’s swap implementation allow me to set the VRAM on auto and play Last Epoch and my TTW install without crashing due to running out of RAM.
Ooh! Is that swap implementation the default? I got back into LE for the launch of the newest season, and while I haven’t had any problems on my Ally or Deck yet, I just finished the campaign so I’m barely into endgame - I hear the issues start as you get deeper into monos…
Funnily enough, I use Cachy on my desktop, but I don’t recall seeing anything regarding this, but I’m definitely happy to run it on my Ally too if it helps avoid future potential crashes.