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Me after installing Bazzite (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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

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[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

yeah it's rpm-ostree install <pkg>

what's the big deal

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 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 1 points 2 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

this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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