Wouldn't it be fun to have "a ready-to-game Arch Linux based OCI designed for use exclusively in distrobox"?
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You may be happy, or perhaps dismayed, to learn that I finally installed Bazzite on my desktop.
I did a bit tonne of sampling, with BlendOS and Vanilla, trying things out, but Fedora wins.
I have Fedora Silverblue on a usb in case Bazzite does not like my computer, but I think I have done enough hopping for a lifetime.
I swear I will just jump onto the NIXOS (or guix) bandwagon if I ever decide to switch again.
That would be so fun I am buzzing with excitement. I am not talking facetiously either. I am out in the cold as I type this, happy and quivering.
I cannot wait to get home and try it out!
I cannot wait to get home and try it out!
Please consider reporting back after you've tried it; I'd love to read your experiences.
Also, what is nice about this somewhat failed experiment is that it was easy to just rm the container and everything went with it.
Yeah, I am not going back to regular linux.
Yup, it's absolutely lovely. Did you experiment with a custom home directory for your distrobox yet?
So it turns out, I cannot use my NVIDIA card using distrobox. I guess it only works with AMD?
Anyways, gaming using Bazzite is a dead end for me. I still find Fedora Silverblue super fun to use, and I think I will just run Steam + Lutris using Flatpaks. I was wondering if distrobox would somehow allow better performance, but I don't understand the technology well enough to even make those presumption. I see that this image is used a lot on Steam Deck, which I also don't understand why (as opposed to having everything native).
Anyways, I can still game well on Silverblue. Baldur's Gate 3 runs okay. So, that means I am fine, hah!
The only gripe I have, which is just my stupidity, is that I have way of using Mozilla VPN. I tried to run it on an Ubuntu container, but I must be doing something wrong because it does not launch. Maybe I need to look into podman more closely, or maybe I am missing some graphical dependencies that is assumed to exist on a DE. I shall keep trying.
Thank you for reporting back! Much appreciated!
So it turns out, I cannot use my NVIDIA card using distrobox. I guess it only works with AMD?
Interesting. Unfortunately, I don't own an Nvidia device. Therefore, I can't tackle it myself. Distrobox should allow the use of Nvidia, but I'm unaware if this applies to the bazzite-arch container as well. The picture you shared and the link to its FAQ-page (found below) do suggest otherwise, unfortunately...
I was wondering if distrobox would somehow allow better performance
FWIW, I've always experienced better performance inside the bazzite-arch distrobox container, at least compared to Flatpak*.
I see that this image is used a lot on Steam Deck, which I also don’t understand why (as opposed to having everything native).
Because the ~~distro~~ image it's used in conjunction with, Bazzite, is Fedora-based, while Steam OS is based on Arch. Bazzite is Fedora-based in the first place, because Arch doesn't officially have any plans for 'immutable' distros yet. As for the remaining distros, only Fedora and NixOS (see Jovian-NixOS) have a sufficiently mature and suitable platform at this point in time.
maybe I am missing some graphical dependencies
This happens way more often than you might expect. Even the so-called 'toolbox' containers from Distrobox miss a lot of packages required to support software graphically. Consider running it inside a terminal and pay attention to error codes etc; those might/should help you resolve the issue. Sometimes it helps to explicitly use the -v
or --verbose
option to ensure that the program actually communicates what's happening.
Interesting. Unfortunately, I don’t own an Nvidia device. Therefore, I can’t tackle it myself. Distrobox should allow the use of Nvidia
THANK YOU.
I've been searching for a few hours how to get distrobox to utilize my GPU and that link got me there.
Concerning Baldur's Gate, are you using Wayland or X11? For me Wayland was much smoother than X11.
I think I am using Wayland since that is the default.
Also, I once made the mistake of running on DX11, which was worse.
distrobox is a godsend for immutable distros
Honestly, it is making my like using linux more. Flatpak made not having the app I wanted available and up to date, distrobox allows me to use a distro that has it up to date natively. Nothing is more dope than that. Except nature? But for computing, I adore it.
Use the heroic launcher or lutris flatpaks for those. I know as a fact that lutris supports both.
I am really keen on Lutris. Nothing beats it for downloading GOG games, not even the galaxy launcher.
That's what I just, it's really just the best