Guenther_Amanita 🍄

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  • 100% AMD, for sure. AMD won’t make much problems and works ootb.

    Nvidia on the other hand… if you already have a Nvidia GPU, then the proprietary drivers work pretty well, but even those won’t work flawlessly and still cause problems for many people.
    And the FOSS drivers are still in the early stages and won’t cut it. So why spend lots of money for a piece of hardware that won’t give you the performance you paid for?

    Also, Nvidia clearly doesn’t care about PCs or its’ users, so why support such a shitty company with your money?


  • You did everything right. Boot into the image that works, and then apply rpm-ostree rollback. This reverses the broken image and the working one, so you’ll boot into this one the next time you boot up until you change something in the order, e.g. by updating.

    In the meantime, wait a day or so and then update again.

    On what channel are you on? bazzite:latest or bazzite:stable?


  • That was the answer I needed. You’re a real champion, thank you very much my friend!

    Just wondering: Ciri was trained by Witchers, to walk, think and fight like Witchers.

    She doesn’t have the same abilities like them tho, so having this unique fighting style should be a real disadvantage against humans, which she fights most against.

    How the hell did she even survive the fights against Bonhart? I mean, she only survived the first one because of his mercy, but at least she wouldn’t have been killed in seconds, like her companions did.

    And in the end, she won, but he always knew she was trained by witchers because of her fighting style.

    Ciri still had a huge kill list, even though she hadn’t any advantages like mutated witchers have, so I believe her, as you call it, disadvantageous fighting style, could have been a real advantage because normal humans couldn’t predict her next move, even trained ones. Except Bonhart, because he already killed quite a few Witchers and therefore maybe knew their tricks?





  • Here’s my perspective. I’m exactly that kind of guy you mean.

    As soon as someone mentions “immutable distro”, I get triggered and start shilling for Bazzite et al.

    Why you might ask? Because I like using it, and because the guys behind it are chill dudes with a great vision and a lot of know-how.

    I’m just a normal guy without IT skills. I can’t code myself, I can’t review someone’s else code, I can’t do anything.

    But I wish I could.

    The only thing I am able to is making it more well known.
    If someone asks “What distro do you recommend for gaming?”, I’ll say “Bazzite”.

    Someone else might say “Arch”, and another one “Tumbleweed”. Everyone likes their own thing, and everyone shills for something else :)

    I really wish your theory was real, then I could make some $$$, but everything here is FOSS. The devs are just as broke as I am…



  • Usually only as long as I play games. After that, I shut it off. Why?

    • I run Bazzite, which updates itself in the background, but needs a restart to complete
    • It boots in seconds, because modern hard drives are crazy fast
    • The standby-LED is annoying when I sleep

    My laptop is usually on for a week, but I restart it from time to time, for the same reasons, and because devices need some sleep too! 😴


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    Fedora Atomic IS immutable. Rpm-ostree just layers (or hides) stuff on top of the already existing image. If you layer something, e.g. Nvidia drivers, you still download the same image everyone else uses, but basically compile the driver from fresh and put it on top. And that takes time. This is the reason using rpm-ostree to layer stuff is not recommended.

    That’s why uBlue exists for example. It gives you a sane start setup, where all drivers are already built in into the image. And then you can either use the clean base and add your own stuff to create your own image, or use already great ones like Bluefin or Bazzite, where everything you want is already included.

    Atomic just means that every process is either completed without errors, or not at all. This way, you don’t get an half updated and broken system for example in case you loose power. Happened to me quite a few times already, but never with Fedora Atomic.

    Pretty much anything outside of /var/ (even /home/ is placed inside /var/) is read-only, and if you want to modify your install, you have to build your own image. Therefore, it is both immutable AND atomic.

    That’s why I prefer the term “image based”


    • You can still apply updates live, e.g. on Bazzite (Fedora Atomic) with the --apply-live tag (or however it’s spelled).
    • The root partition isn’t read only per se, but you have to change the upstream image itself instead of the one booted right now. You can use the uBlue-Builder for example to make your own custom Bazzite spin just for you if you want.
    • Both aren’t inherently secure or insecure. It’s harder to brick your system, yeah, for sure, but you can still fuck up some partitions or get malware. It’s just better because everything is transparently identifiable (ostree works like git), saved (fallback images), containerised and reproducible.
    • And you can still install system software, e.g. by layering it via rpm-ostree. Or use rootful containers in Distrobox and keep using apt or Pacman in there.

  • FYI, the creators of Aurora/ Bazzite/ Bluefin are currently working on bootable CentOS stream based OCI images. This means, that you will get a LTS version, similar to Debian, but image based and WAY more slow paced.

    My experience with uBlue has been flawless, but I don’t know if I would recommend it to an elderly person, because they might change a bit, and change is a stress factor for many people that age.



  • Not only that. It can either be an almost 1:1 replacement for SteamOS (if you choose the -deck variant), or just a normal desktop distro with a lot of gaming optimizations, like the fsync-kernel, gamescope, hardware enablement, and quite a lot of QoL improvements.

    It’s basically a “Download the iso and begin gaming in 30 minutes”-distro.

    It also ships some additional software that is optional, but quite neat. For example, I discovered LACT through it, which made over a year of GPU humming gone by allowing me to set fan curves.

    For some diehard Arch users, it might be “bloated”, but I find it just right. I never had the feeling that the included tools are useless, and those that might be (e.g. Discord, OBS, etc.) are only installed when you tick the checkbox in the installer.




  • “Cloud native” means in this context, that the images are being built centrally by “the cloud” (in this case, it’s GitHub actions, but could be replaced by something else) and then the identical copies of the OS are distributed downstream.

    Contrary to traditional package manager based distros, this is more efficient and reliable.

    At least that’s the mission from what I know, but I also might be wrong. Then please correct me :)



  • The option(s) other commenters gave are great! But just to give you more options, I’ll give you a few additional ideas.

    1. KDE Connect: You can still use a normal desktop (preferably KDE or Gnome), set your display scale to 150+%, and then use your phone remotely to control the cursor, media playback, and more.
    2. Bazzite: often used to replace SteamOS, it also boots into Steam big picture mode by default, where you can set applications in the start menu. It has a nice console-like interface, and you don’t have to maintain anything, e.g. updating. It also supports Waydroid and webapps by default.
    3. An old laptop or mini-PC with Bluefin or Aurora. They are basically like Bazzite, but without gaming stuff. You can set the display scale to 200% and enjoy a worry-free experience. Optionally, you can install Phosh or Plasma Mobile on top, which is made for mobile devices.

  • If you’re a fan of that principle, then consider checking out Logseq.

    It’s main workflow is that you use the Journal page and write down everything that’s on your mind, may it be projects, research, social stuff, or whatever.

    And while writing, you link that stuff with other stuff, and in the end, even when forgetting the exact search cues, you can go hunting for words mentally, and always find what you wrote months ago.

    Obsidian, the competitor of it, is also great, but more similar to traditional note taking software, and therefore more hierarchical.

    Logseq is FOSS too btw!


  • I think Bazzite will be way better than SteamOS when it comes to hardware enablement. After all, that’s uBlue’s main priority.

    SteamOS is quite a bit behind when it comes to new features, and HDR/ VRR is improving everyday under KDE.

    I didn’t use Windows personally for 3 years or so, but I don’t miss one thing when it comes to gaming.

    Sure, HDR and VRR are still a bit on the experimental side compared to Windows, but even if it doesn’t work as great, I wouldn’t even miss it when disabled tbh.

    The ability to not having to use Windows is far outweighting the lack of some features for me personally.