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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      ‘Spins’ on Fedora Silverblue had -for some time- been following a naming scheme that involved picking the name of a blue mineral that ended on “ite”. We see this in for example its KDE-spin Fedora Kinoite -which (inadvertently) happens to be the one starting this trend- and the unofficial spins of Vauxite (Xfce), Sodalite (Pantheon) and thus Bazzite (Gaming/Steam Deck). However, the official Sway-spin (Fedora Sericea) and the upcoming Budgie-spin (Fedora Onyx) don’t quite follow this naming scheme 😅.

      Yes, ideally a naming scheme that’s a lot more descriptive would be awesome; like say Fedora Atomic GNOME or Fedora Atomic KDE etc.

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    I recently put the nvidia variant of ublue-os on my work laptop, which has Optimus graphics. Couldn’t be happier.

    It’s great to see these variants popping up! I really think ostree may be the future for desktop Linux, and not even very far away.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    I was just thinking of doing a fresh install on my gaming rig. I might give this a try. I’ve been wanting to dig into Universal Blue for a while and this seems like a good place to start!

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      This is not a new distro fork, it’s just the immutable Fedora images modified to include packages Red Hat cannot legally ship.