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Bazzite 3.0 has been released! (canada1.discourse-cdn.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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?

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

Thanks, but I toured the whole settings yesterday, together with Gnome Tweaks, Dconf and the dock-to-dash settings and didn't find anything. Granted, I don't have a great handle of Dconf, so there are things I didn't touch to avoid messing everything else up.

This seems to be exclusive to Bazzite Gnome. I've used Gnome with absolutely every distro and this has never happened before. It's not a bug, it's a feature I don't like, lol.

I guess I'll take my chances on breaking it all and roll back if needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'd jump into their Discord to ask for advice regarding this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'll try that. Not a huge discord fan, but I guess I can make an exception.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it is what it is... peronsally use Vencord(has flatpak) that has stripped out the discord telemetry and added features :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

You're on a roll with the tips. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What does Bazzite brings that Nobara doesnt already?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds like something worth mentioning to the Devs at least 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hey! Would you happen to know the keyboard command to bring up the side panels when in a game in game mode? I know ctrl-1 and ctrl-2 work when outside the game but they don't appear to work when in a game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Immutability, mainly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm curious too. I'm definitely gonna have to think about looking up how they compare to each other followed by how they compare to SteamOS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My case is the opposite. I game on my laptop or my Steam Deck, and work on my PC. I installed Bazzite on my laptop yesterday right after going over this thread. On my PC I also tinker quite a bit, so I just have plain Fedora Gnome on it. I'm going to spin a VM with Bluefin to play with it a bit. Thanks for the tip. One thing that could be an issue with Bluefin, and maybe you can enlighten me here, is that according to this video on their site, they have done away with OS-tree? Because that would make this entirely based on FlatPaks and no other options, which is a huge block for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

they have done away with OS-tree? Because that would make this entirely based on FlatPaks and no other options, which is a huge block for me.

I don't understand exactly what you mean with that, but I think you are afraid of any restrictions.

uBlue (Bluefin, Bazzite, etc.) is still Fedora Atomic, just like Silverblue. It's just that they take the OG image, rebuild it based on some instructions, and then redistribute it. It still has OSTree and all other stuff.
You aren't set on Flatpak, but you definitely should use it on image based distros. Flatpaks are great and convenient, that's why they're getting more and more popular, also for devs. Because of that, the default (and only) way of installing apps via software center is Flatpak. If you don't like that, you can still use Distrobox (e.g. with Pacman, DNF, etc.), Nix, Brew, or any other package manager you like, b but that's more for CLI-users.
I mostly work graphically, but if I have to do some CLI stuff, then I enter my Arch-Distrobox. I never encountered any problems or restrictions there tbh
And you can still layer (install rpm packages on the host system) via rpm-ostree if you really need it, but it's not recommended and only there for essential stuff. Use containers instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use rpm-ostree on Bazzite. What put me off was when the guy in the video (I'm assuming he's one of the maintainers) said "you have FlatPaks, and that's it". But if OStree is still there, I'm golden to take it for a spin.

I'll spin the VM and see if I encounter any blocks. And you are absolutely correct, I am afraid of any restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Compared to Bazzite, there shouldn't be (m)any differences. You can see Bazzite just as a gaming-oriented Bluefin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for letting me know. I installed Bazzite on my laptop last night like 5 minutes after I read this thread. I guess it's the Steam Deck's turn to give it another shot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Depends on the specs and what you want to use the PC for really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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 :)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guessing you've tried installing silver blue and reading from that?

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

Fedora, Ultramarine, and Bazzite for distros, but haven't tried Silver Blue.

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