Bazzite has a very simple process for installing software that isn’t on Flatpak: You spin up a virtual machine running a better distro and install it there

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Bazzite docs repeatedly say ‘do not do that, it will lead to system instability as we update and improve the feature set of our custom rpm-ostree that is the backbone and fundamental core of what Bazzite is.’

        It is supposed to be a static, locked down, readonly core OS, just like SteamOS.

        Its just based on fedora instead of arch, and has a bunch of other customizations and tweaks and preconfigured apps and helper tools.

        • jimmy90@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 hours ago

          fair point

          https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/rpm-ostree/

          so you have to be careful what you add to your base; preferably just self-contained tools that will not interfere with the stability of the system, use distrobox or other container to create larger more sophisticated environments

          i used it for an icon theme, amd gpu info tool, android cli tools. they all come from the fedora repos so play nice with the base and i haven’t run into update issues mentioned in the info page

          it’s also very easy to rpm-ostree reset if you do, so it has that safety net

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Not really though… Not gonna be that annoying guy and repeat what I and others have said elsewhere in the thread, but you should read some of the replies here.