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Immutable Gaming Distro That Just Works. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently use Mint, as do several family members and friends. Its been nothing short of impeccable. I was occasionally tweaking things until now sometimes the game crashes, PC freezes requiring hard reset. Everything used to work pretty flawless out the box. Should I reinstall my mint or look at PopOS, Bazzite, Nobara, Etc? I'm at the point in my life. Where we all need something to just turn on and play. I want some shit that just works. Or reinstall mint but how without losing all my files and settings? and keep it moving as usual as it used to be flawless. Tweaking is fun until you tweaked so much shit breaks lol. I'm over tweaking. Just wanna game. I keep seeing immutable is good so that's why I ask. Thanks!!

5600x 6700xt Its an all AMD build over here :)

Edit: You guys convinced me I'm booting it up now with KDE! I also plan to try PopOs. I'm excited. Thanks everyone!

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[–] Mechaguana 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bazzite. Its pretty swell for gaming, comes with an install script at launch for whatever you want extra, and you update manually or automatically so its pretty low maintenance.

Installed without a hitch, and I game on nvdia. Should work even better for you. Get the right iso though, the desktop non nvdia one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How true is this? This is kinda what turns me away. We all want shit that just works and if it breaks it'll update and be new again.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/14475472

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I ran Bazzite on a mini form factor pc for about 12 months. It was just connected to the TV and used to play games.

I turned it on, I used my controller to start a game, that was it. I’m not sure what actions would be doing to break it.

I haven’t used it in about 6 months since I got a steam deck, but I just plugged it in and tried it again. Still starts up fine, played dead cells for a few minutes.

But if you’re looking for immutable distro for gaming then Bazzite is the gold standard.

Other immutable distros like Kinoite, Aurora, Aeon are targeted to desktop use, but in my experience they play games just fine too, no reason they wouldn’t (Aeon used to have a weird security policy that caused problems with Wine, but I think they changed that)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've been running bazzite for about 6 months now, daily driving for about 5 months and its never once broken on me. During boot, you're presented with 4 snapshots you can choose between so if an update did happen to break something, it's easy as just choosing an older snapshot after a reboot. No idea why that commenter thinks it's hard tbh.

I'm running it on a 7600x and a 6700XT GPU. Everything just worked out of the box for me, steam games work perfectly 99% of the time in my experience, and when you run into an issue just go to protondb and you'll probably find the fix there.

Games run through lutris can be annoying at times, the EA app and battle.net games glitch out on me much more than steam games, but they do work, just gotta tinker with proton and wine versions till it runs.

Highly recommend bazzite, I love it after being a life long Windows user.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

During boot, you’re presented with 4 snapshots you can choose between so if an update did happen to break something, it’s easy as just choosing an older snapshot after a reboot.

Those are actually just two snapshots, there's a bug in GRUB that displays them twice. Purely visual, and you can fix it with a ujust script, run in the terminal with ujust configure-grub. There are lots of little scripted tweaks and installations available; you can get most of the list by running ujust by itself. Incredible work by the maintainers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh I didn't know that, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm just here to say Bazzite all the way. No clue what that poster meant by breaking issues or problems with rollback... Bazzite is literally designed to be the antithesis of both. The ONLY time I've had a problem with it was rebasing my laptop between Silverblue and Bazzite. Technically allowed, but I wouldn't advise it as that did cause me stability problems. I'd blame Silverblue more than Bazzite in that case, however. A clean Bazzite install has been solid ever since.

[–] Mechaguana 3 points 1 month ago

The only problems ive been having on bazzite, were nvdia based ones. Thats it. Nvdia drivers amiright? Honestly yeah ever since i installed in june my machine has been aging like fine wine. If you have probs for it on an amd system id be surprised tbh.