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

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
    4·
    7 months ago

    If you are like myself and use your PC mainly for gaming, and your laptop just for casual use (watching videos, writing notes, etc.), then you can also take a look at Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE).

    It’s a “replacement” for the stock Fedora Silverblue/ Kinoite with QoL stuff and on the spectrum between Bazzite (“bloated”) and the uBlue base image (extremely lean, missing a few standard apps by default) and gives you the choice between “I’m a casual user” (-> only what you need) and the “developer edition”, which includes some IDEs and stuff.

    I like it a lot and think of it as “Bazzite, without gaming stuff”. Maybe you’ll like it too!

    • youmaynotknow
      2·
      7 months ago

      My case is the opposite. I game on my laptop or my Steam Deck, and work on my PC. I installed Bazzite on my laptop yesterday right after going over this thread. On my PC I also tinker quite a bit, so I just have plain Fedora Gnome on it. I’m going to spin a VM with Bluefin to play with it a bit. Thanks for the tip. One thing that could be an issue with Bluefin, and maybe you can enlighten me here, is that according to this video on their site, they have done away with OS-tree? Because that would make this entirely based on FlatPaks and no other options, which is a huge block for me.

      • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
        4·
        7 months ago

        they have done away with OS-tree? Because that would make this entirely based on FlatPaks and no other options, which is a huge block for me.

        I don’t understand exactly what you mean with that, but I think you are afraid of any restrictions.

        • uBlue (Bluefin, Bazzite, etc.) is still Fedora Atomic, just like Silverblue. It’s just that they take the OG image, rebuild it based on some instructions, and then redistribute it. It still has OSTree and all other stuff.
        • You aren’t set on Flatpak, but you definitely should use it on image based distros. Flatpaks are great and convenient, that’s why they’re getting more and more popular, also for devs. Because of that, the default (and only) way of installing apps via software center is Flatpak. If you don’t like that, you can still use Distrobox (e.g. with Pacman, DNF, etc.), Nix, Brew, or any other package manager you like, b but that’s more for CLI-users.
        • I mostly work graphically, but if I have to do some CLI stuff, then I enter my Arch-Distrobox. I never encountered any problems or restrictions there tbh
        • And you can still layer (install rpm packages on the host system) via rpm-ostree if you really need it, but it’s not recommended and only there for essential stuff. Use containers instead.
        • youmaynotknow
          1·
          7 months ago

          I use rpm-ostree on Bazzite. What put me off was when the guy in the video (I’m assuming he’s one of the maintainers) said “you have FlatPaks, and that’s it”. But if OStree is still there, I’m golden to take it for a spin.

          I’ll spin the VM and see if I encounter any blocks. And you are absolutely correct, I am afraid of any restrictions.