Bazzite 3.0 has been released! ( canada1.discourse-cdn.com )

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

jjlinux ,

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.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/9e3993bf-a46d-4b32-b5cf-e273678348f4.jpeg

Is there a way to disable this?

Other than that, Bazzite has been rock solid and super customizable on my Gazelle 16.

Sunny OP ,
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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?

jjlinux ,

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 OP ,
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I'd jump into their Discord to ask for advice regarding this.

jjlinux ,

I'll try that. Not a huge discord fan, but I guess I can make an exception.

Sunny OP ,
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Yeah it is what it is... peronsally use Vencord(has flatpak) that has stripped out the discord telemetry and added features :)

jjlinux ,

You're on a roll with the tips. Thank you.

sirico ,
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This and BLuefin are such good projects, I run Bazzite on 2 pc's deskop and consolised gaming pc and Bluefin on my workstation

Sunny OP ,
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They really are! Love that it's even possible to make your own image with on tweaks and such, really cool.

florge ,

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.

Guenther_Amanita ,

It's basically Nobara, but properly done. (If you choose the desktop version)

It gets updates automatically (max one day after upstream Fedora), has everything you want ootb in the first start wizard, is more secure, and much more.

I was very sceptical at first, but after trying it out, I really noticed some minor performance improvements in games and many QoL improvements, e.g. the preinstalled LACT, which allows me to set up fan curves and over-/ underclock my GPU.

Setting up my new PC took me about half an hour maximum.

9/10, I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a smooth gaming experience.

unknowing8343 ,

But then why don't you simply develop a toolkit that installs all those things and sets things up properly on a standard fedora install?

This seems something with too big of an attack surface.

Guenther_Amanita ,

That would be very very hard and unreliable.

Bazzite is more than just "preinstalled Steam", it has a list of tweaks, optimizations and additions so long you can't even finish reading it all! 😅
This includes a different kernel, pre-configured containers, and much more.
If you do that on a regular system, configuration drift would quickly destroy any good experience in no time and result in a huge mess.

uBlue provides a solid base distribution (pretty much stock Fedora) and applies exactly your way, but in upstream, and then copies that new image to millions of PCs. By doing that, you can provide many many identical copies that are the same everywhere and always up to date, without the burden of maintaining a whole distro like on Nobara.
The hard and boring work of maintaining a distro is on the shoulders of the Fedora team, and you only have to maintain your own changes.

This seems something with too big of an attack surface.

Not really.

  • Most stuff is installed in containers
  • The pros of image based distros still apply here in terms of reliability, security, etc.
  • Its no more than a few hours away from upstream stock Fedora
  • Most apps (Lutris, OBS, etc.) are optional and opt-in, if you just click "next, next, next" in the installer you'll get a relatively vanilla experience compared to stock Fedora
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