TheModerateTankie [any]

I’m all in on bazzite, and I’m not going back to a regular linux distro. I’ve tried switching to linux mutliple times over the past 20 years, and it’s by far the best linux experience I’ve had. The stable distros I’ve used in the past would often give me problems when updating, with the more system level tweaks you do the more unstable it becomes over time. This may just be linux as a whole getting better, but I still I greatly appreciate bazzite’s stability and the background updates and having almost everything I need already setup and ready to go. There are some limits, depending on what you need, but those are being addressed, and if you can figure out distrobox or move to a containerized workflow, a lot of them just go away.

I like the universal blue distros. If your laptop specs aren’t great I would recommend Zirconium, as it’s a Niri-based atomic distro and runs great on my 10yo laptop. Bluefin is gnome based, Aurora is the KDE-based equivalent. Bazzite has both KDE and Gnome variants, and is similar to either of them but with more game tools steam installed at the system level. I am biased towards these distros because they’ve been the best linux user experience I’ve ever had for day to day use.

Between linux distros on the same kernel and a similar DE setup the difference in performance between them is within the margin of error. If it’s greater than that then something is broken with the setup. You’ll likely get worse performance and hardware compatibility on debian or mint, just because they run older kernels by default. You can get newer kernels backported to debian if you add the right repositories, but I don’t think it’s recommended.

I run the desktop version of bazzite and can not say enough good things about it. It’s been more stable than debian for me and the “immutible” distros i’ve been on have been such a good and trouble-free experience that I don’t want to touch traditional distros anymore. It has all the codecs and a bunch of extra hardware support enabled by default, a bunch of scripts to easily set up things, and a bunch of QoL improvements set up on install. Having to open up flatseal every now and then to grant permissions to a flatpak is so much less trouble than what I’ve experienced on traditional distros where updates can straight up break shit and randomly send you on a troubleshooting goose chase. I don’t understand how anyone finds that normal and acceptable. You can get local AI set up pretty easily with the right flatpaks (alpaca) or certain appimages.

If not being able to mess with system level stuff, or the niche quirks of an immutable distro are a dealbreaker, or you want to jump around on different DEs and not mess with a VM: Fedora is good, generally stable and decently updated packages. Mint generally stable but might have slightly older packages. CachyOS for an arch based option that’s highly regarded, because it has a lot of useful options, but with rolling release distros the risk of updates causing an issue slightly higher than usual. I’ve also heard nothing but good things about OpenSuse Tumbleweed which is also rolling release but reportedly very stable.

Oh, I see. From the bug reports posted, it looks like the -dx image is based on the bazzite deck 44 image for some reason, which isn’t out of testing yet. If that’s deliberate it’s an odd choice. The new deck 44 image should be updated to stable soon.

edit: Further reading indicates it’s based on the deck image so that they don’t have to maintain two different dx versions.

Is it not letting you rebase to stable?

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable

Currently what I’m using and I’m never going back to a regular distro.

I’m using a regular stable distro, running as a small server on a spare machine, and had an update break my docker containers. What a drag.