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Bazzite 3.0 has been released! (canada1.discourse-cdn.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

New Major Features for 3.0

  • Upgraded to Fedora 40
    • KDE Plasma 6 - GNOME 46 - Linux Kernel 6.8 - AMD/Intel GPU driver upgrades
    • Ayn Loki Max Pro support
    • Ayn Loki Zero support
    • Improvements for supported handhelds
      • HHD Overlay is now stable
      • Gyro support parity with Lenovo Legion Go
      • Charge limits set for Lenovo Legion Go
      • ASUS ROG Ally custom TDP that use the kernel driver
      • Custom fan curve support for ASUS ROG Ally
    • Added CDEmu
    • Added Ollama ujust command
    • Added fastfetch
    • Added zoxide

All of that, and more details about the rest can be read on the announcement page here ---> https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/announcing-bazzite-3-0/1218

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[-] florge@feddit.uk 86 points 6 months ago

In case, like me, you hadn't heard of Bazzite before:

Bazzite is an OCI image that serves as an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck, and a ready-to-game SteamOS-like for desktop computers, handheld PCs, and living room home theater PCs.

[-] Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 64 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's basically Nobara, but properly done. (If you choose the desktop version)

It gets updates automatically (max one day after upstream Fedora), has everything you want ootb in the first start wizard, is more secure, and much more.

I was very sceptical at first, but after trying it out, I really noticed some minor performance improvements in games and many QoL improvements, e.g. the preinstalled LACT, which allows me to set up fan curves and over-/ underclock my GPU.

Setting up my new PC took me about half an hour maximum.

9/10, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smooth gaming experience.

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

What has nobara not properly done? I wanted to try it as a daily driver.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 19 points 6 months ago

The only issue I can see is this is more of a team effort, and Nobara has always primarily been for GER and his Dad. The differences though are minimal, though I will always sway towards something with the image based design of Bazzite for a gaming/work setup.

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[-] root@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Have not tried immutable distros, but I like the idea that the core OS is read-only to prevent a rookie user from messing things up.

Then again, if the core OS is read-only, is it at all possible to modify some system files like fstab files to auto-load drives?

[-] j0rge@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

/etc is completely writeable. This is why we don't use the term "immutable distros" because Bazzite and the rest of universal blue are neither immutable nor distros.

(This is why Fedora moved to the term Atomic)

[-] root@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Noted. I guess used the wrong definition for Bazzite and that confused me. LOL.

Good to know that /etc is writable. I might have to download it and give it a spin. Thanks for clarifying.

[-] Antiochus@lemmy.one 2 points 6 months ago

Yes, I don't know all of the details, but most of the system config files like fstab and such are modifiable. I automount my NAS by putting a command in fstab.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 21 points 6 months ago

This and BLuefin are such good projects, I run Bazzite on 2 pc's deskop and consolised gaming pc and Bluefin on my workstation

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago

They really are! Love that it's even possible to make your own image with on tweaks and such, really cool.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago

I've never looked into it hard core but at some point I will go into all the stuff Jorge and the rest have uploaded and teach myself, but currently I don't need to I've not touched the OStree on any installation so far.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah ive never been a fedora guy in the past but I'm really loving everything that comes from ublue.

[-] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 20 points 6 months ago

Bazzite is my first true experience with an immutable distro, and wow, what a magical moment it was.

I've been eyeing on fedora 40's release for some time now because it fixes all the Wayland problems for Nvidia cards. One night my grandma needed some help, so I walked away from my PC, it automatically suspended, came back 30 or so minutes later, and when I logged in I was just automatically on KDE 6 with fedora 40, didn't even reboot.

This is truly the year of the Linux desktop.

[-] Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago

Are u sure it didn't shut down when you were away?
uBlue updates itself, yes, but the updates are staged and need a reboot to apply.

[-] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

unless maybe it automatically restarted and put all my applications back on screen that I had running, not sure. but I know it didn't shut down since I literally hit the power button and it was immediately on, it was asleep.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago

https://bazzite.gg/ If anyones interested scroll to the bottom and there's a little wizard to select the right image for your needs, don't worry too much you can always rebase :)

[-] Syltti@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

The download tends to fail for me. Have to constantly restart it and pray it finishes. Then the installer seems to be error-prone. I actually have to reinstall it today because, somehow, simply restarting my PC results in a slideshow from the boot screen onwards. I always seem to have issues with the installer Fedora-based distros use.

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[-] bastonia@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

What does Bazzite brings that Nobara doesnt already?

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 13 points 6 months ago

Bazzite also has the backing of a bigger group of developers and community. Whereas Nobara is developed by a solo (kudos to him). But I would say Bazzite differs quite a bit too with its immutability, automatic updates, and thanks to libostree technology, after every update the previous version of the operating system is retained on your machine. This means, should an update cause any issues, you can select the previous image at boot. Additionally, it has support for gamescope, meaning Steam can boot straight into Big Screen mode, which is very handy for gaming pcs and steam decks etc.. Can read the rest of the details over at bazzite.gg, if you're not convince :P

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Would you have any idea why bazzite.gg is consistently crashing android firefox? Trying to scroll past "waydroid" makes the app reload and is taking some of my services with it, which is really weird.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

That's sounds weird, just tried myself and works fine here. Maybe try in private mode (or without extensions)? Assuming you have not enabled all extensions via private tab.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

It only happens with the mobile version of the site, desktop version is fine.

The crash still happens in a private tab, as well as the in-app firefox browser on Boost. Even when disabling uBlock, still crashes.

Is this due to an old android version maybe? I'm still rocking android 9, would that limit firefox somehow? Firefox is still 125.2.0, so that's not old yet.

Maybe it's using too much memory. That would explain why firefox isn't making a crash log, and might explain why my services are dying too. The issue is always with the "work with your hardware, not for it" section, which never loads and always causes a crash when it should load but never before. Perhaps there's a big memory leak there in the mobile version?

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds like something worth mentioning to the Devs at least 😅

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[-] miracleorange@beehaw.org 8 points 6 months ago

Immutability, mainly.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

I don't know if its still the case but originally Nobara was a "this is for me but you can use it too" type of project.

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[-] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 7 points 6 months ago

Fantastic. I've been planning to install it on a new PC build this weekend so the timing works out well

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

I'm running Fedora 40 on my PC and my laptop. Now, having read how much most of you like the experience, I guess I'm moving my laptop to Bazzite. I did install Bazzite on my Steam Deck, but the experience was worse than with SteamOS for the Stadia controllers, which is what I use (not that the experience is stellar or anything on SteamOS, but Bazzite never once reconnected without having to re-pair, SteamOS at least does like 60% of the times.)

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

It is true that Bazzite had some bluetooth issues, if that's what you're referring too. Personally, got hit by this too, but can warmly say that none of those issues remain on their latest 3.0 version. PM me if you need help setting it up or have any questions :)

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[-] Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago

If you are like myself and use your PC mainly for gaming, and your laptop just for casual use (watching videos, writing notes, etc.), then you can also take a look at Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE).

It's a "replacement" for the stock Fedora Silverblue/ Kinoite with QoL stuff and on the spectrum between Bazzite ("bloated") and the uBlue base image (extremely lean, missing a few standard apps by default) and gives you the choice between "I'm a casual user" (-> only what you need) and the "developer edition", which includes some IDEs and stuff.

I like it a lot and think of it as "Bazzite, without gaming stuff". Maybe you'll like it too!

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Nice. Been running bazzite deck on gpd win mini and after a bunch of tweaking its been rock solid. Looking forward to finally trying plasma 6.

[-] PrefersAwkward@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I've had a lot of experience with Linux and I use Nobara currently. My only catch with Bazzite is that I didn't know the first thing to do. It somehow felt as if most of my experience in Linux was just useless.

Not saying it's a bad thing, I just decided I'd stick to Nobara for now and try learning Bazzite in the future to give it a fair shake.

I'm also a tweaker. I like to play with ZRam and add other things to the OS, like a custom kernel with BCacheFS-Git to support my gaming darastores. I suspect some of my creature comforts may be harder to get.

[-] Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

You could give the uBlue builder a shot, which can do exactly that.

But I think NixOS is a better choice for a tinkerer like you :)

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

So I'm not the only one who feels lost with Bazzite, even after years tinkering with other distros?!

I need to sit down and try to wrap my head around the file structure, it just feels completely different except for the home dir.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I'm running Bazzite on desktop cpu to use with steam link and do self hosting. Docker stuff was pain but it saved me a lot of pain by having gaming work out of the box.

[-] Kory@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

This really caught my eye, but does it make sense for an older PC?

[-] Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It won't transform the old device into a gaming beast, but if you do some lighter gaming with it, why not just try it? :)
If you don't like it or want something more vanilla/ general purpose, you can always rebase to other Fedora Atomic variants, e.g. Silverblue, Kinoite, uBlue community images (Secureblue, Deepin, etc.) anytime you want! This changes the "flavor" (basically like switching from Linux Mint to Kubuntu by reinstall) without loosing any data or settings with one command. It's so fucking great!

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[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

I do have a request for help with Bazzite. In all my Gnomes I've always used dash-to-dock with intellihide. With Bazzite, I for some reason I just can't understand, when I move the pointer to the bottom to have the dock come up, bazzite opens the workspaces view.

Is there a way to disable this?

Other than that, Bazzite has been rock solid and super customizable on my Gazelle 16.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

I've never personally used Gnome so fotm know how to navigate it. But I am sure this is something you should be able to do disable. I'd look either in shortcuts, workspace or gesture settings maybe?

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