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Bazzite is an alternative OS to SteamOS for the deck and other handheld PCs. Unfortunately due to a mistake, anyone who installed Bazzite before July 3rd 2024 won’t get automatic updates.
If this affects you, I’d suggest checking out the article to get instructions on fixing it.
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If you use Bazzite anywhere, you need to apply this fix.
I had to fix this on my desktop and laptop.
As someone who’s never heard of Bazzite until this thread, what is the appeal of using it on desktop?
It’s an atomic variant of Fedora that satisfies all necessities for gaming with Linux, like coming with built in drivers and the option to install stuff like Steam and Discord during initial startup.
Atomic varieties of Linux are really cool, they are much less prone to breakage because all updates happen at once or not at all. They are just generally more stable and you can rollback easily if necessary.
Personally I just like Fedora, so my preconfigured options are either Bazzite or Nobara. I also prefer the stability of atomic variants. It’s just a solid base to work with, regardless of if you’re using a desktop or a handheld.
Also if an update gets completely borked while installing (i.e. you lost power), then it just boots into the version you were running previously thanks to the A/B update scheme. It’s neat.
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“It just works” from what I understand.
Is there a benefit in using it over the default OS?
It has all the advantages of steamOS, can boot straight into game mode, supports Decky plugins, etc.
However it also supports installing traditional Linux programs permanently (which steam OS generally won’t let you do), and has other benefits too.
Does it also have the power-limiting features?
Yes and they apply while the device is off too.
Including the xone kernel driver for proprietary Xbox dongles is quite nice
(you can connect Xbox gamepads via bluetooth but that will often times give you a higher input lag for Xbox pads anyway)Their GitHub has everything you’d want to know.
Build Bazzite | failingI guess so.That really doesn’t mean much.
Unless you’re planning on building from latest source, that info isn’t for you.
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main one for me is installing software from distro repos that aren’t in flatpak and having it persist through updates.
This goes for any Ublue project Aurora and Bluefin too
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that’s great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.
Developer Jorge O. Castro noted in a forum post how they “were rotating our cosign keypairs this morning, which is the method that we use to sign our images” and unfortunately they “made a critical error which has resulted in forcing you to take manual steps to migrate to our newly signed images”.
They have a script set up that you can run that will fix the problem, so all you have to do is run this in a terminal app (code source):
curl -sL https://fix.universal-blue.org/ | sudo bash
To ensure it doesn’t ever happen again, they’ve noted some process changes to be implemented.
See all the details in the forum post announcement.
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I was puzzled for a while why it wanted to update again right after it seemigly finished but doing again it in the terminal put out an error which for ‘atomic’ distros usually means a fix like this is needed.
