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

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 months ago

    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.)

    • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      7 months ago

      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 :)

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
        2·
        7 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.

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
    1·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      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?

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        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.

    • Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.netOP
      2·
      7 months ago

      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

  • florge@feddit.uk
    0·
    7 months ago

    In case, like me, you hadn’t heard of Bazzite before:

    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, handheld PCs, and living room home theater PCs.

    • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Have not tried immutable distros, but I like the idea that the core OS is read-only to prevent a rookie user from messing things up.

      Then again, if the core OS is read-only, is it at all possible to modify some system files like fstab files to auto-load drives?

      • j0rge@lemmy.ml
        1·
        7 months ago

        /etc is completely writeable. This is why we don’t use the term “immutable distros” because Bazzite and the rest of universal blue are neither immutable nor distros.

        (This is why Fedora moved to the term Atomic)

        • root@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          Noted. I guess used the wrong definition for Bazzite and that confused me. LOL.

          Good to know that /etc is writable. I might have to download it and give it a spin. Thanks for clarifying.