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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 and living room home theater PCs.

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[–] iso@lemy.lol 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who finds these names 🤷‍♂️

[–] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly "Bazzi" means "game" in Farsi 🤷‍♂️

[–] HellAwaits@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you mean "Brazzers"

[–] throwawayish@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'Spins' on Fedora Silverblue had -for some time- been following a naming scheme that involved picking the name of a blue mineral that ended on "ite". We see this in for example its KDE-spin Fedora Kinoite -which (inadvertently) happens to be the one starting this trend- and the unofficial spins of Vauxite (Xfce), Sodalite (Pantheon) and thus Bazzite (Gaming/Steam Deck). However, the official Sway-spin (Fedora Sericea) and the upcoming Budgie-spin (Fedora Onyx) don't quite follow this naming scheme 😅.

Yes, ideally a naming scheme that's a lot more descriptive would be awesome; like say Fedora Atomic GNOME or Fedora Atomic KDE etc.

[–] baconicsynergy@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

Blood sweat and tears went into this project and I'm so glad they've finally released version 1.0.0. Congratulations to everyone in the team!

[–] oranki@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn't be happier.

It's great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.

[–] baconicsynergy@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

The images with the nvidia drivers baked in are one of the greatest selling points for Universal Blue. Its the easiest and simplest way to run Linux with nvidia, hands down.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

I kinda hope not, to be honest. Unless there could be an easy way to get tiling window managers working. It's easy on NixOS, another immutable distro, but it's definitely not as easy on something like Silverblue.

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[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What the hell is an immutable OS?

[–] rx8geek@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This video on steam os which is also immutable went over it: https://youtu.be/gwUf8pwoA5U?si=RlbN0pDnAgEGa-uf

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Base system is not changeable. you install user apps etc and those are separate from the root system that remains identical.

[–] baconicsynergy@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Immutable is awesome. The user instead uses flatpak, snap, and/or nix to install their packages and apps. If you want a mutable environment, you can use containers and their many system integration tools like distrobox.The system has rollback functionality thanks to ostree, abroot, or similar technologies, so in case an update goes awry, you can roll back to a previous working image. Update anxiety no longer exists for me

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking of doing a fresh install on my gaming rig. I might give this a try. I've been wanting to dig into Universal Blue for a while and this seems like a good place to start!

[–] letThemPlay@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting might have to give this a go in a dual boot.

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mrmojo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

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:

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Proprietary Nvidia drivers pre-installed.
Full hardware accelerated codec support for H264 decoding.
Full support for AMD's ROCM OpenCL/HIP run-times.
xpadneo driver for wireless Xbox One controllers.
Full support for DisplayLink.
Includes Valve's KDE themes from SteamOS.
LatencyFleX, vkBasalt, MangoHud, and OBS VkCapture installed and available by default
Support for Wallpaper Engine. (Only on KDE)
Distrobox preinstalled with automatic updates for created containers.
Automated duperemove services for reducing the disk space used by wine prefix contents.
System76-Scheduler preinstalled, providing automatic process priority tweaks to your focused application and keeping CPU time for background processes to a minimum.
Customized System76-Scheduler config with additional rules and CFS parameters from Linux-TKG.
Uses Google's BBR TCP congestion control by default.
Input Remapper preinstalled and enabled. (Available but default-disabled on the Deck variant)
Helpful first-start installer provides an easy way to install numerous applications and tweaks, including installing CoreCtrl and GreenWithEnvy.
Nix package manager optionally available.
Waydroid preinstalled for running Android apps. Future releases will offer to set this up for you. (Not available on Nvidia builds)
OpenRGB i2c-piix4 and i2c-nct6775 drivers for controlling RGB on certain motherboards.
GCAdapter_OC driver for overclocking Nintendo's Gamecube Controller Adapter to 1000hz polling.
Out of the box support for Wooting keyboards.