Bazzite 42 is now available!

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The issue I have with brew, where the packages are stored in /home/linuxbrew instead of somewhere in the local home directory.

With nix you can at least use nix-user-chroot to change the /nix directory. But AFAIK this is not possible with homebrew-on-linux.

I like to have my personal development tools nicely separated from the rest of the system, in order to not have to rely on it.

This also allows to put my home directory on a USB stick and use systemd-homed on any system that supports it, bringing all your tools with you.

I sometimes have to work with systems where the home directory is either shared via NFS over multiple devices, or the system itself should be considered immutable. So anything outside the home directory, I donā€™t have much control over.

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Brew is capable of, but does not officially support, alternate install locations.

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For people updating to latest stable release 42.20250425:

If you update to it, please note if your game mode splash screen animation changes from Bazzite to stock Steam OS. Thatā€™s what happened to me last night when I did an update. Iā€™m curious if it affects other people too. Not sure about the cause at this moment.

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That has nothing to do with your Bazzite version, itā€™s a steam client update that would occur no matter what version you were on.

Itā€™s fixed in testing and will hit stable eventually.

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I presumed that much myself but I did not notice any Steam client update coinciding with Bazzite update. Thatā€™s what threw me off.

First boot of the system showed Bazzite startup video, I just did ujust update from the desktop, rebooted and on the next boot there was a stock Steam OS startup video. I did not notice Steam client update.

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I basically am a huge fan of the distro once itā€™s running. The installer is a mess though, at least for the gnome version.

I first thought the issues were due to me being on the nvidia hardware, but now being on AMD, the screens keep turning off during the installation, there is no proper desktop displayed, just the installer (which would be fine if it was not for the screens turning off).

I think the distribution is really great. The installer ISO really needs work. I tried to look into that, but could not actually find documentation on how to build the bazzite ISO and make changes to it.

Iā€™d like if that was changed to a proper live ISO.

I think for a first impression thatā€™s pretty bad. But once itā€™s running itā€™s a really good distro to run with less issues than actually running Fedora having to do the tweaks yourself like media support.

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To bad 5.1 sound over pc->tv-> soundbar still not working properly :frowning:

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Not working for me either: Surround Sound option not available