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Bazzite: An immutable Fedora-based OS optimized for gaming on any device, from desktops to laptops to the Steam Deck (universal-blue.org)

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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can totally use one of the tiling window manager images (sericea is based around sway) -- it wouldn't be a ton of work for that to be added to bazzite, it's just another parameter in the matrix, feel free to hop into github and help out, I'm sure people will want lots of options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're the main developer of UBlue, right? 🤩

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ironically, Fedora's setup becoming the future of Linux makes it easier to tinker.

OCI images used in immutable distros such as Bazzite are very easily customizable and are much safer to tinker with. If you mess up with packages, you can roll back to the previous state and fix it. Mutable distros are also like this, but the recovery process is much more complicated and leaves leftovers in the long run.

See the Tinkerers' Guide for more details.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I was going to reply to the parent comment but read yours, and you're totally right. Tinkering to make a custom Universal Blue image is very much encouraged by the devs, and we want people to share their favorite images. That's how Bazzite and Bluefin started out, after all

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's a base image of ublue, which is Silverblue without a DE. I'd suppose you can mostly just layer e.g. Sway or i3 on top.

Traditional package model will still have it's usage, of course, I agree. But if Silverblue works for a developer like me, I'd say a for more "regular" users immutable distros seem like a very viable option.