An alternative SteamOS-like distro built on Fedora for Steam Deck and Desktop

    • @throwawayish@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      The very same ones when one compares Fedora Workstation to Fedora Silverblue. Which mostly come down to Bazzite offering more stability, improved security, reproducibility, atomic updates and a pinch of declarativity[1] at the expense of relearning a thing or two and actually being limited in some (rather niche) actions that are currently not supported on Silverblue (and thus -by extension- Bazzite). Chances are rather slim that the average Nobara-user would delve into any of those unsupported actions. So if you ever happen to stumble upon something you’re not able to do/perfom on Silverblue/Bazzite/uBlue then it’s safe to assume that you’re not approaching it correctly and that a different approach would have resulted in the desired outcome.


      1. Regular Silverblue is not very declarative, if at all. However, the toolkit that uBlue offers -and which is used by Bazzite to create its image- enables one to have some degree of declarativity. It’s by no means comparable to the likes of NixOS or Guix, but it’s only going to get better from here.
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    10 months ago

    Looks interesting, the option to install android apps could be convenient

  • @vojel@feddit.de
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    This looks awesome. Maybe I will adapt some things to my Arch install. This Distrobox thing looks great.

  • @five82@lemmy.world
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    210 months ago

    I literally just finished setting up ChimeraOS on my “Steam Machine” pc and now I’m going to have to try this. Looks very promising.

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    210 months ago

    Very neat, it’s on my list now for when I concert my HTPC over. The last hurdle is that I will use it for Plex, so HDR is a must. I know Linux is getting close there, but if it’s my main driver I have to wait

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      Hopefully won’t be a very long wait for that, red hat is really pushing for HDR right now.

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        210 months ago

        So is Valve I know, they’re hoping to have it with SteamOS 3.5, and I think they’re going right to the kernel for it. Hopefully someone gets it in soonish, it’s looking like it’s pretty close