It comes bundled with Bazzite, but it’s not as good as Proton works. Lepton would be a far better solution.

The presentation made it sound like Lepton would only help Android apps be usable on the Frame.

I wish I could sideload an APK to Steam and be able to run the Android app on Bazzite. Like Proton but for Android.

If you bought any of these devices and use Windows on it, you are done receiving driver updates.

If you are running Linux on it, you will have driver updates because if the manufacturer updates the same architecture, it will benefit your specific chipset too.

I prefer Gnome’s UX/UI, But Valve sponsors KDE and they collaborate, this helps KDE ship gaming related improvements faster than other desktops, so that’s why I switched to KDE. IIRC, KDE had VRR 6 months faster and when Gnome got it, it required editing a text file, then a few months more for the UI and last month it was deemed not “experimental”. Both are great, with different strengths. My advice is that you try and chose what works best for you.

I’ve been running Bazzite since it launched. When Microsoft announced the TPM requirement for W1 and sunset of W10 I started the switch. After trying 10+ distros I settled on Bazzite.

It’s been the best PC experience I’ve ever had. I’ve used Windows, MacOS, and all major Linux distributions, and the Universal Blue distros are the ones I like the most. I appreciate their ease of use, stability and having the latest drivers.

I have 2 kids, we use Bazzite (with KDE) on my 3 PCs:

• Intel i7 14700K + 3080ti
• Ryzen 7 7700X + Radeon 7900 XTX (Main Rig)
• GMKTec K12 (Ryzen 7 H255 32GB) as a Living room console.

Bonus:

• Steam Deck running Steam OS is the same experience as Bazzite for my family.

I run Aurora on my work laptop through an external M2 caddy. I am extremely happy to have made the switch.

My daily experience is pure bliss, there’s no maintenance whatsoever, and everything I need to do with my PCs is easy.

I don’t want to be an expert on any OS, I just want it to work for ME and not the other way around. I don’t want to maintain anything. I want to work and play and the OS has to move aside and let me do my thing when I want to. And Bazzite and Aurora have been that for me.

Sure, we can’t play Fortnite or FIFA. But this is a gazillion times better than dealing with Windows bullshit.

For other stuff like Adobe and what not, I found alternatives which some are free and better.

Valve, KDE, and drivers are being improved on a monthly basis, for me it means every little nuisance is being resolved automatically without requiring my attention.

But right now, in Game Mode, HDR and VRR work perfectly. Next month brings better HDR for desktop mode.

Nothing is perfect, but this is the happiest I’ve been with my computers ever. I don’t do shit, everything works.

My kids are proud to show their setup, it’s easy enough for them that they don’t require my assistance to use them on their own.

I love it.

My advice? Switch and try. Settle with the one you like the most. Privacy is not the only benefit.

some hope

I read this news as: “The Linux proof of concept has graduated and will be merged into the main app”.

Actually, it’s your ultimate goal. You said you want her PC to not break. And you want to accomplish it by learning and then fixing it yourself. Well, I’m here trying to help you diagnose the issue & possible solutions.

I was trying to collaborate with you. Help me help you.

To answer your question, Bazzite and all other diestros developed by Universal Blue project are all downstream modifications of the Fedora Silverblue base image, which in turn is downstream of Fedora itself.

If you want to use the closest thing to Bazzite but you don’t want it to be focused on gaming, you could go for Aurora or Bluefin (both Universal Blue distros).

But if the issues she’s having are related to GPU stuff, you should use the same hardware and compositor (valve’s gamescope/KDE plasma kwin/ gnome mutter) which depends on the distro and variant you pick.

If you could tell us the issues she’s having, we could be of greater help.

keep her PC from breaking all the time

How did she manage to break Bazzite?

How does it compare (as it is right now) to other open source games similar to Minecraft ?

I had the same experience. Bazzite 41 or 42 (can’t remember) fixed it for me.

Are there issues? Sure. HDR’s still a crapshoot…

Untrue.

Edit: I effortlessly use it on Bazzite. What’s the issue you guys are having?

Fortnite devs have chosen to actively not support Linux. Meaning, they have made sure it doesn’t work on Linux, on purpose. It will never work on Linux because they want it not to work on it.

Dual boot, or no Fortnite.

There’s a video on YouTube where Jorge Castro (Ublue Dev) talks about how it works. He also posted this recently.

But in short, it’s like Flathub for CLI apps: apps get publicly built, community audited, signed, and distributed. When installed, they remain isolated from your base OS, they can’t break your system.

Similar in some way to F-DROID too.

What’s really cool about flatpak and brew is that you can see the package build history in Github, and the community is very big because every dev on Mac is using it.

The amount of packages available is insane.

I use:

• GhostScript
• LittleCMS
• ImageMagick
• Pandoc

All work like if they were native packages. It’s great.

Emphasizing the role of downstreams (ex. Bazzite) in delivering to the needs of users, by providing a commons for Fedora-based gaming focused downstreams to acheive common goals.

I wonder what they mean by that and how that will materialize, how exactly will they help downstreams and if that will have any weight.

Thank you so much for RD, it’s awesome!

I dream of RomM integration. I wonder if Playnite for Linux will come first.

Not me, my kids (4 & 7). I wouldn’t play a mobile game, I just want some apps that I can’t avoid and aren’t available on desktop.

F*ck yesss, Waydroid for the lazy like me!

Good luck making a casual install it and use it.

Desktop Mode on a Living Room “Console”? You know what I meant.