I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I’m pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn’t want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But sometimes when I want to game or when I wake up my computer from sleep the display would just keep blacking out and won’t let me use it until I restart the computer (I am using an AMD GPU btw). This issue has been happening on Plamsa 6, and Gnome as well. I have tried various fixes from the ArchWiki but it’s still there. Other than that I really liked the Distro.
It’s not like changing distros can solve my moitor blacking out problem, but I’m going to try something based on Silverblue for a change. Yes, I have tried the Ublue project in the past, it was good but I couldn’t get into the whole immutable thing back then, so I hopped back to my staple Arch/Tumbleweed and carried on. Fast forward to today… I’m thinking about trying Bazzite or Aurora as the idea of having a low maintenance system is now very appealing to me.
I’m not necessarily a hardcore gamer but I do play games every other day and also run some LLMs locally every now and then. I’m not sure which one I should go for between Bazzite and Aurora. Maybe someone who has run both can give their opinion.
Running bluefin here and loving it although I am forced back to x11 for work
I can vouch for Bazzite. Been running it on my desktop and laptop (both amd gpu’s) with virtually no issues or hiccups. The desktop is even dual boot, despite that not being advised.
+1 for Bazzite. I stopped hopping around when I tried it with Fedora 38, been using it since.
I’ve had one problem related to kernel 6.9.x affecting Steam game stability on my old hardware ( i5 2500k). Newer systems have BIOS settings that mitigate the issue. It’s not a Bazzite specific problem. However, I was able to roll back and pin a previous image that uses kernel 6.8.x. Will unpin and update once I see a fix deployed.
Is it related to the issue described in the post attached to this comment? The linked comment also links to an issue page with details about the issue the poster experienced. If so, then that issue should actually be fixed in kernel 6.9 (which still has not been added to the Fedora 40 repos), and not caused by it.
An extension of this issue is present in 6.8.9+ before 6.9, which is why I ask if this seems to be related (since the versions are pretty close in time and Fedora doesn’t even have 6.9 yet).
I have an older laptop with an Nvidia GPU, and it runs Bazzite mostly fine. There’s a few annoying things, but that’s mainly a product of Nvidia + X11. Playing games on it works just as well as my Steam Deck, and I’ve even rebased a couple of times due to (usually upstream) bugs that affected my specific setup.
I can also vouch for Bazzite, and it’s the distro I’m using as a comparator as I’m looking for a replacement on my main desktop.
ETA: I’ve also dabbled a little with Silverblue and Kinoite, and they feel just as solid and “complete.”
Been on Bazzite myself since the F38 Beta.
I haven’t had to so much as perform a rollback even once on my AMDxAMD desktop.
In fact the upgrade from versions isn’t even a worry anymore.
I played some games, turned off my computer at the Fedora 40 launch and magically it upgraded to Bazzite 40 the next time I booted up, with 0 effort on my part.
I tried Bazzite for a couple of months. After the 3rd or 4th update, Wayland started acting up, so I had to fall back to Xorg. So I ended up going back to Fedora Workstation. Other than that, when it was working, it worked great, dGPU or integrated, just worked. I did find it somewhat slower to boot, and the same for opening software, but nothing that I would have considered a deal killer.
Now, that’s just my personal experience, I’ve also read of people that have had nothing but a very solid experience.
Yes, just yes. Try it. If you want, I can elaborate further.
I’ve been using it for about a year now, and I just can’t imagine going back to a traditional mutable distro.
I’ve never encountered any personal issues (capabilities, convenience, breaking things, annoyances) as a casual user.
I would recommend you Bazzite, but you can always just rebase to Aurora if you want, it literally takes just 2 minutes.
Just search for Fedora Atomic here on this community, and you will find dozens of great experience reports.
Rather than rebasing, would there be a way to to layer the Bazzite Optimizations (Kernel & scheduler Optimizations for gaming, not Lutris etc) on top of aurora-dx?
I recently switched to bazzite. What i ended up doing was using bluebuild and making my own github repo. Which takes the newest version of bazzite upstream and strips out flatpaks i dont want or certain packages. And installs some i want. The documentation could use some work but its a great concept
https://blue-build.org/learn/getting-started/
https://github.com/Steamymoomilk/yboxproworkstation
And my repo if you need insperation and or help with configuring bluebuild feel free to ask!
Im still trying to figure out how to make it automatically take distrobox assemble distrobox.ini and setup my distroboxes
And to answer your question with bluebuild you can take bazzite-dx and set that as your image in recipe.yml and then specify what packages you want added via brew, flatpak, or rpm-ostree or removed
I am currently struggling with build a custom image.
- Do I need to specify somewhere where the recipe.yaml files are? If I use multiple ones, and they are not in the top dir?
- If I get random Errors without any output, do you know how to increase that?
I already asked the devs that so no problem if you dont know it.
Bazzite is awesome. Installed it yesterday, first “distro” that just works with everything out of the box, including Logitech Keyboard/Mouse and fan control. Had to switch to X11 with dual monitor setup and nvidia, but anything else is just smooth. No tinkering, no going back because that one programm doesn’t work properly. Love it!
In easy terms, it’s a bit like running a phone OS. The further you deviate from the default, the more issues you’ll have.
It’s the opposite end of the spectrum to Arch.
