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silver@das-eck.haus 1 day ago
Where has the consensus landed on running this vs bazzite? I’ve got bazzite on my htpc and I quite like it, but I also like installing shiny new OS’s
I mean Bazzite probably still has better hardware compatibility, as they’ve been doing it forever. Also look into ‘ujust’ commands because they’re super underrated, along with crazy easy software installations with Homebrew and whole-system single-click upgrades (and even automatic background upgrades) with Topgrade.
There are plenty of reasons not to like it as well but this is not a review.
I went from bazzite to cachyos handheld recently and I feel like cachyos is just a much more polished experience.
CachyOS isn’t immutable though, which comes with pros (it’s easier to change major parts of the OS) and cons (such as it being easier to break the system).
I’m also torn. Currently running bazzite but I’ve got it set up the way I want it so I’m probably going to procrastinate on SteamOS for a bit.
SteamOS probably isn’t going to have any advantages over Bazzite unless you find Bazzite to be too complex.
I’m also interested in people’s thoughts on this. Also compared to nobara? I’m on nobara now, and I’m happy with it but unfortunately it was enough work messing with gamescope and hdr settings that I couldn’t recommend it to the non-tech savvy yet
What issues did you encounter? i had problems when trying to use Flatpak for everything - Heroic didn’t recognize Gamescope or Mangohud, even when installing the demanded versions. The moment i ditched the flatpaks and went for native packages everything started working without a hitch. The hard part was finding out that the issue was using flatpaks.
In steam some games ran really poorly and washed out because hdr wasn’t working. After some googling I found out that I’d probably have to run a gamescope command in the game’s launch options, and more googling and trial and error to get that working and hdr sorta dialed in. It’s good now, I get great performance and the hdr looks okay to my eyes, but it certainly didn’t go as smoothly as when I played the same games on my steamdeck and they “just worked”.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The single biggest advantage of Bazzite over SteamOS is that it has the option to install programs from the normal software repos. If something you need isn’t available as a flatpak/appimage/etc, you can install it anyways to a package layer, and it will be available after a reboot. This is also really nice for programs that need better system integration, for example getting a flatpak password manager to integrate with a flatpak web browser often doesn’t work.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Avoid layering. The best way to install packages via a package manager is through Distrobox. This has the advantages of not allowing down the update prices, being available immediately without a restart, and also with Distrobox you can use any distro + package manager you want. Layering means using dnf. With Distrobox you can use Ubuntu, Arch, whatever.