Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828040 - Dec 2023 (108 comments)

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There are a slew of images built on Fedora Silverblue and a lot of them are very interesting. The ability to rebase in and out of base images safely and atomically is really powerful and liberating. If you haven’t tried an “immutable” distribution, I would highly recommend it. It really does feel like the most logical way to run Linux with zero fuss and maximum flexibility and safety,

https://universal-blue.org/

I overlaid bluefin-dx [1], the developer oriented build by ublue, over my Fedora Silverblue system and it's been pretty great so far. Feels a little bloated for my taste, which is why I started my own fork [2]. The ability to change things up in a layered way (basically a Dockerfile) without risking breaking anything at the host level is really nice!

1. https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=39 2. https://github.com/sqwxl/sophon

How customizable can you customize the theme on your system with an immutable distro? I don't know how immutable distros work but seems like they would run afoul of people who like to really customize their experience.

People tend to over rotate on the term "immutable", which is why Fedora and Universal Blue use terms like atomic and composable.

Themes work like they do in normal Fedora.

I was trying to decide whether to get a Steam Deck or a Legion Go last fall. I fell down a rabbithole reading about "immutable" Linux. Tinkering with it seemed interesting/potentially useful, so I went with the Legion Go with an intention to make Linux work on it. (I had the standard prior limited Linux exposure as a web dev: an occasional server VM at work, or using the shell on Android/ChromeOS.)

Wasn't sure whether to use NixOS or Bazzite. Picked NixOS on a whim. Seeing all the steam that Bazzite has gained in the past few months is making me wonder if I should change over at some point.

Cheers on their new homepage! Looks like they did a great job making it approachable for newcomers.

Speaking of Linux gaming, a long long time ago I wanted to play Path of Exile, but I only had a Linux laptop running Mint. That machine was too underpowered to run PoE and Mint's Cinnamon at the same time. After significant twiddling, I managed to configure and run an X session directly for the PoE executable under WINE. No DE or WM, just the executable running under WINE. I played PoE (on lowest settings) for quite some time on my humble machine using that setup.

Not a gamer myself but linux anywhere is appreciated! Might try it sometime.

I've spend the last 6 months happily gaming on Standard fedora (xorg / KDE / Nvidia / Intel). My 3070 just hums along with no significant issues. I'm not sure why I'd bother with bazzite or nobara... the default workstation install is perfectly capable.

This is what I use for gaming: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/03/2000