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I'm running Fedora 40 on my PC and my laptop. Now, having read how much most of you like the experience, I guess I'm moving my laptop to Bazzite. I did install Bazzite on my Steam Deck, but the experience was worse than with SteamOS for the Stadia controllers, which is what I use (not that the experience is stellar or anything on SteamOS, but Bazzite never once reconnected without having to re-pair, SteamOS at least does like 60% of the times.)
It is true that Bazzite had some bluetooth issues, if that's what you're referring too. Personally, got hit by this too, but can warmly say that none of those issues remain on their latest 3.0 version. PM me if you need help setting it up or have any questions :)
Thanks for letting me know. I installed Bazzite on my laptop last night like 5 minutes after I read this thread. I guess it's the Steam Deck's turn to give it another shot.
If you are like myself and use your PC mainly for gaming, and your laptop just for casual use (watching videos, writing notes, etc.), then you can also take a look at Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE).
It's a "replacement" for the stock Fedora Silverblue/ Kinoite with QoL stuff and on the spectrum between Bazzite ("bloated") and the uBlue base image (extremely lean, missing a few standard apps by default) and gives you the choice between "I'm a casual user" (-> only what you need) and the "developer edition", which includes some IDEs and stuff.
I like it a lot and think of it as "Bazzite, without gaming stuff". Maybe you'll like it too!
My case is the opposite. I game on my laptop or my Steam Deck, and work on my PC. I installed Bazzite on my laptop yesterday right after going over this thread. On my PC I also tinker quite a bit, so I just have plain Fedora Gnome on it. I'm going to spin a VM with Bluefin to play with it a bit. Thanks for the tip. One thing that could be an issue with Bluefin, and maybe you can enlighten me here, is that according to this video on their site, they have done away with OS-tree? Because that would make this entirely based on FlatPaks and no other options, which is a huge block for me.
I don't understand exactly what you mean with that, but I think you are afraid of any restrictions.
I use rpm-ostree on Bazzite. What put me off was when the guy in the video (I'm assuming he's one of the maintainers) said "you have FlatPaks, and that's it". But if OStree is still there, I'm golden to take it for a spin.
I'll spin the VM and see if I encounter any blocks. And you are absolutely correct, I am afraid of any restrictions.
Compared to Bazzite, there shouldn't be (m)any differences. You can see Bazzite just as a gaming-oriented Bluefin