Quoting: PyrateI appreciate the insight into Bazzite. Do you reckon it could be used on a gaming laptop that is also used for general desktop work? or is it exclusively about gaming, where I'd be better off using something like Nobara? (I'm thinking of Bazzite because I'm interested in the whole atomic variant concept of Fedora)

I use Bazzite for my work laptop (I'm planning to do the same to my backup laptop, though rebasing it to the uCore server image once I don't need the UI). And it's fine? You'd need to add some stuff if it's not provided by default, but it's not hard to do and in fact integrated to their default yafti and ujust recipes. If you don't like the setup, you can always rebase to Bluefin [External Link] or even plain ublue or Fedora Atomic images.

Granted, I also use the Blue Build system [External Link], as it's called now, which might look daunting but if you look at the How-To page [External Link] it's still the six clicks process that it remains to be from back when it's still under the Universal Blue website.

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Expanded hardware support for TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption.

Very excited for this at least if it's implemented in a way that can be re-used by other distro.

The requirement to input password before the boot process continues can be really annoying - I'd rather it be dealt with automatically, and I just have to deal with the DM's log-in page. I could easily turn auto-log-in on and off, very useful while tinkering.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyWould you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?

I hear Bazzite/Nobara are currently some of the best Just Works(tm), no tinkering distro's out there.

I can second Bazzite, particularly because of the greater Universal Blue group's work on the `yafti` GUI setup tool and `ujust` CLI scripting tool, which makes setting up a lot of things so much easier. They also write a lot of guides in their forums (like how to install Davinci Resolve), and have the very robust Blue Build which gives fairly easy-to-learn declarative-ish custom image builder, so it's also great for power-user or just as a learning experience as well.

Granted, Plasma 6.0 is still pretty rough from what I hear, but you can use the GTS channel to stick with the older Fedora 39 base, then jump straight to Fedora 41 once they come out with improved Plasma 6.1 or 6.2 (this is what I'm planning on doing myself).

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Quoting: hardpenguinSo like EasyRPG [External Link] but for MV and MZ editions!

From what I saw, it's closer to a wrapper. nwjs is the engine, and rpgmakerlinux-cicsoffs runs it with custom parameters. Similar to how Bottles runs Wine with custom parameters or how LEGUI runs locale-emulator.

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Oh my god, I love this. I've used normal nwjs for so long, and sometimes it has weird annoying issues that I don't know how to fix. I don't even know you need to manually fill in package names in package.json files (since MV often doesn't give it a name) to fix issues running with nw >v.0.72 until earlier this year. Don't even get me to weird scripts and filename issues.

If this could just automate everything, it would really, really help with all the RPGM games I play. I'm definitely going to try this on Black Souls - really need to finish that one, one of these days.

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The Yuzusoft fixes are big. It may not sound like much to people not into Visual Novels, but in VN world they're big. I wouldn't say they're the Call of Duty of VN world, but people who've been in the community for a while usually have an opinion on them or at least have tried their games - and if you're into moege then you have to have played at least one of their games.

Also, they're the gold standard for customization settings in VNs (when Sakura Miko promoted their game, going to the options was one of the thing she highlighted).

For a long while now, I was stuck with Proton 4.11 because that was the only one that can correctly install WMP9 and have the correct window behavior for their custom Kirikiri engine. Not needing to tinker with it anymore is great!

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Quoting: GuestHow does one manage to make a distribution that doesn't support native Linux games? That sounds like royal kludge.

Maybe it's that by default they won't allow execution of binaries beyond certain sources like Steam or Flatpak?

Alternatively, by "support" they meant in the service sense. In which case, that's understandable, given that updates can break games relying on older libraries and ABIs (see the glibc problem). Officially supporting Linux native games in that case would require an automated container setup so that they can be certain users would always have access to their games regardless of when they bought it.

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Quoting: PenglingAw, but Desktop Mode is a really nice feature to have on a device like this.

AFAIK it is going to be based on Universal Blue's work, Bazzite was explicitly mentioned I think, so it should already have Desktop Mode.

Honestly, doesn't make any sense to start from scratch for these kind of projects. Bazzite was super transparent with how they do things - you can just clone their repo and you'd get a fully set-up pipeline for your own image-based Linux distro*

*custom image

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BURIKO! A lot of VNs use that! Oh man, I don't know who's working on them, but there's been a steady slew of very VN-relevant improvements for quite a while now.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyUh . . . the way of the future, I'm sure. This is how we'll get all those Windows and Mac users into the fold--letting them define their system through a config file! Yup, I feel so archaic now. :tongue:

You don't need to go full advanced mode on it. There are many people who uses Bazzite as SteamOS replacement (I'd argue it's already better than current SteamOS). In fact, I got into uBlue as a whole by installing Fedora Silverblue and then, with a single rpm-ostree rebase command, changed to uBlue's images. You can basically change distro and DEs without manual reinstall or cleanups.

Universal Blue is Fedora Atomic made usable, and SteamOS but actually supported for more hardware (they have specific images for Nvidia, Framework, ROG Ally, Legion GO, etc). And then you can just layer more stuff in, either locally, or if you're an advanced user in a cloud-native manner via GitHub (I always get a kick how I'm basically using Microsoft infrastructure to build me a distro for my personal use and backups).

Edit: Chris Titus covered it recently - https://youtu.be/wdC_qiFoHN4 [External Link]

NixOS is the new Arch - obviously, new users shouldn't use it, but it offers a lot of power that most distributions just cannot offer any time soon. The ability to define a stable channel as your main channel and then define unstable or specific version (down to the commit) per packages or configs, and they don't conflict. Everything is in a config file, so a NixOS-based 'distro' really can just be people sharing their config file.

It's so powerful I'm using it to sync packages (including Flatpak) between all my machines, including the non-NixOS ones. Again, it wasn't easy to learn at first, but if you've been using Linux for a few years? It's worth looking into at least Nix Home-Manager because it really can do so many things.

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For me, Ubuntu and anything Ubuntu-based just feels archaic. I've hopped on the NixOS and Universal Blue (Bazzite and Bluefin/Aurora primarily) train, and nowadays I can just define my system through a config file. uBlue goes even further with enabling creating whole distro image and ISOs with all of my configs in it.

I haven't needed to think about system updates in a while. Even in the case of something having a problem, I haven't needed to worry about anything breaking. When I saw Matt from The Linux Cast talking about reinstalling your distro to have a clean experience, I outright found it cavemen-like because... why not just check what's layered in `rpm-ostree status` and then re-layer what's necessary after an `rpm-ostree reset` (assuming you even layer anything, instead of adding things declaratively in your Blue Build image creator github repo).

Mind, I still need to do `cd ~/.config/home-manager ; nix flake update ; home-manager switch -b bak ; distrobox enter arch -- paru -Syyu --skipreview --noconfirm` every now and then (really need to make that a script file in my home-manager), but that's like... maaaybe if I feel like it? And doesn't impact my main system. I don't know, my current setup allows me to not really think about the underlying system I have, and anything else that I have to actively manage feels like a downgrade.

Oh, and I use KDE, I guess. Not that it really matters, changing DE is just an `rpm-ostree rebase` or a single line change in NixOS config away. It was a bit of a heavy learning at first, but it was well worth the time investment IMHO.

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