• Asidonhopo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    Guy came into my workplace this week and I was saying I was slowly getting into developing a game engine with SDL. When he heard I was using ubuntu he recommended Bazzite, saying he has no trouble with it and uses his machine mostly for gaming. Is it Debian based or something else? At least it’s not that meme distro Arch I guess, might try it

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      It’s Fedora based. If you want to develop on it, it supports containerized workflows. There’s a DX version explicitly designed for developers.

    • krox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      8 days ago

      It’s honestly so easy to get into and works, I’m honestly surprised it isn’t suggested more!

      (I use bazzite btw)

  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
    38·
    8 days ago

    Imagine not using Hannah Montana Linux. I literally can’t do it. Why would you use anything else when all the other distros are so inferior?

      • Marty@lemmy.world
        5·
        8 days ago

        In which ways is it better? right now I’m defaulting to bazzite for my desktop as I already got a steam deck.

        • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          5·
          8 days ago

          Well I can’t speak for everyone, but I noticed significant gains in a couple of the games I played when switching. Specifically Minecraft and Dune: Awakening. I’m getting upwards of 100fps in Minecraft with BSL shaders on ultra now, and I’m playing on a laptop. When I was on Bazzite I was getting less than 60fps with shaders, so I didn’t use them at all.

          Depending on the DE you pick, it can be pretty good on the battery life too.

      • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        8 days ago

        openSUSE Tumbleweed made me love my computer again. It also games like I’m not even missing anything from Windoze. NVIDIA GPU and everything. I’m sure there are “better” distros, but openSUSE was the one that got me to stay, and I couldn’t be happier!

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    8 days ago

    I feel called out, “I use Bazzite btw” is literally a joke I made irl last week.

    Some Bazzite users touch grass and talk to people IRL, surprising, I know.

  • eldain@feddit.nl
    8·
    8 days ago

    Can you dual boot it yet with other linuxes? I want to split gaming and productivity.

      • eldain@feddit.nl
        1·
        8 days ago

        Yeah you need to tell grub-mkconfig in /etc/default/grub to run the os-prober on everything during updates and put it in the cfg, but bazzite is immutable and seems to be only configured for parallel windows and it’s own version history. If i read the docs correctly, screenshot in other comment.

      • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        8 days ago

        Its not better per se compared to other Linuxes for gaming, just pre-configured to take a lot of the basic setup work out of it for you.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 days ago

        I tried it out and challenged myself not to touch the terminal to fix anything for as long as I could, to see if it is a truly ready-out-of-the-box experience.

        It is actually very intuitive for gaming, what makes it feel more suited than most distros for me is that flatpak apps that you don’t have installed show up in the start menu, ready to add if you need them. Other OSs are leaner and cleaner but you’d have to know the package name.

        I managed to get everything started, games and stuff including minor tweaks, and the first time I needed to use the terminal was to work out how to get some fan control working. I didn’t succeed in setting it up. So I took away from that experience that low level hardware OS tasks are harder to access in Bazzite.

        • Hazzard@lemmy.zip
          9·
          8 days ago

          Yeah, basically the only thing I really use the terminal for is ujust, a series of scripts maintained by Bazzite themselves. And ujust does have a script to install a GUI fan controller app, btw, which I’ve used to setup my own fan curves, and found it pretty darn usable despite it being the first time I’ve done such a thing.

          The OS is immutable, so you’re probably right that lower level tasks are harder, but Bazzite themselves have stepped in and created a dedicated command for pretty much anything finicky I’ve thought to do in the past year or so.

      • eldain@feddit.nl
        1·
        8 days ago

        I could only find the ugly bios option, normally the os-prober of grub-mkconfig would be configurable to take care of it, but we are immutable there. I assume this is also valid for debian or arch:

  • Bjarne@feddit.org
    7·
    8 days ago

    Thats great!

    I actually don’t see the benefit of Bazzite, its supposed to be gaming. But I didn’t really ran into much problems using Bottles under Fedora either (which feels much less bloated), but maybe i was just lucky. I play mostly indie games from itch.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      8·
      8 days ago

      I also use Bottles with ProtonPlus on NixOS. Bazzite has better integration for crazy stuff too, and a lot is running with full privileges unlike Flatpak.

      Just look at their features, they really add a ton. The goal is to become less and less ofc, but Steam will stay proprietary so that will always be a huge change to regular (or atomic) Fedora.

      https://bazzite.gg/

      https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite?tab=readme-ov-file#about--features

      Quote

      Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.

      Bazzite is built from ublue-os/main and ublue-os/nvidia using Fedora technology, which means expanded hardware support and built in drivers are included. Additionally, Bazzite adds the following features:

      • Uses the bazzite kernel to achieve HDR and expanded hardware support, among numerous other included patches - based off of the fsync kernel.
      • HDR available in Game mode.
      • NVK available on non-Nvidia builds.
      • Full hardware accelerated codec support for H264 decoding.
      • Full support for AMD’s ROCM OpenCL/HIP run-times.
      • xone driver for Xbox controllers.
      • Full support for DisplayLink.
      • Includes Valve’s KDE themes from SteamOS.
      • LatencyFleX, vkBasalt, MangoHud, and OBS VkCapture installed and available by default
      • Patched Switcheroo-Control fixing default-broken iGPU/dGPU switching.
      • Support for Wallpaper Engine. <sub><sup>(Only on KDE)</sup></sub>
      • ROM Properties Page shell extension included.
      • Full support for Winesync/Fastsync/NTsync.
      • Distrobox preinstalled.
      • Simplified Davinci Resolve installation with davincibox (ujust install-resolve)
      • Ptyxis Terminal used as the default in all images. This terminal is specifically designed for the container workflow you’ll use in Bazzite. KDE Konsole and GNOME Console can be installed as flatpaks if required.
      • Automated duperemove service for reducing the disk space used by wine prefix contents.
      • Support for HDMI CEC via libCEC.
      • Uses Google’s BBR TCP congestion control by default.
      • Input Remapper preinstalled and enabled. <sub><sup>(Available but default-disabled on the Deck variant, may be enabled with ujust restore-input-remapper)</sup></sub>
      • Bazzite Portal provides an easy way to install numerous applications and tweaks, including installing LACT.
      • Waydroid preinstalled for running Android apps. Set it up with this quick guide.
      • Manage applications using Flatseal, Warehouse, and Gear Lever.
      • OpenRGB i2c-piix4 and i2c-nct6775 drivers for controlling RGB on certain motherboards.
      • OpenRazer drivers built in, Select OpenRazer in Bazzite Portal or run ujust install-openrazer in a terminal to begin using it.
      • OpenTabletDriver udev rules built in, with the full software suite installable via Bazzite Portal or by running ujust install-opentabletdriver in a terminal.
      • Out of the box support for Wooting keyboards.
      • Built in support for Southern Islands <sub><sup>(HD 7000)</sup></sub> and Sea Islands <sub><sup>(HD 8000)</sup></sub> AMD GPUs under the amdgpu driver.
      • XwaylandVideoBridge is available for Discord screensharing on Wayland.
      • Webapp Manager is available for creating applications from websites for a variety of browsers, including Firefox.

      So yeah it is bloated and less secure too, but “just works”