@nazokiyoubinbou
So far Bazzite has really impressed me. I honestly did not expect much. It was never on my radar. I had never even heard of it until a few months ago.
There have been a few janky moments with it, but overall I'm really impressed and if it continues to stay stable I'm sure it will be a mainstay on my laptop.
@Judeau @nazokiyoubinbou IIRC, Bazite is based on Fedora, where a ton of the developers and QA people are Red Hat hires. ThinkPad machines have been used by these folks for several decades and they have contacts within the Lenovo hardware departments. I'm not surprised this stuff works on Lenovo hardware 😉
Red Hat's philosophy is also "upstream first", so everything goes into public open source projects first. But they pick the latest releases of each of these needed projects into Fedora twice a year. And Bazite benefits from that.
@dazo @Judeau @nazokiyoubinbou
And Bazzite isn't just based on standard Fedora either. It is ultimately based on the atomic version of Fedora which is actually more stable because the root filesystem is read-only.
Everything which is writable is overlayed from elsewhere and I believe a lot of the applications which do not typically ship with standard Fedora are either overlayed in with rpm-ostree or installed via Flatpak or use AppImages.
@bird @dazo @nazokiyoubinbou I think rpm-ostree is not preferred with Bazzite.
I tried to install the official Fedora Proton VPN app from Proton's website and was unable to successfully install it.
Once it came to adding the repository and installing the app in the command line, Bazzite popped up a warning basically saying to use rpm-ostree as a last resort.
It was late and I was tired so I gave up. Lol. I'll try again later this week and pay closer attention to the details.
Judeau (EatTheRich)
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