Install Bluefin and Bazzite adjacent

Hi fellow dino lovers,

Would it be possible to install Bluefin and Bazzite on the same hard drive? I would like to have these on separate partitions but on the other hand I would like to keep it as close as possible to what is the result of the automatic partitioning. Is there a documentation somewhere that I missed that describes what would be a manual setup required to achieve what the automatic partitioning does?

The following is what I’ve got on my Bluefin with the automatic partitioning.

I would like to have Bluefin for my work and Bazzite for gaming. I also have Windows 11 on the second hard drive.

I found the following article regarding manual partitioning for Bazzite:

Would I follow the same procedure for Bluefin? Are partitions mentioned in the article sufficient for Bluefin as well?

Installing to same drive is not really supported. So you are on your own with that pretty much.

Thank you @inffy. Do we know what kind of issues I can expect when running two atomic installations on the same drive? I managed to get through the installation and systems seems to work, at least for the moment.

This is what I have at the moment. Bluefin partitions are at the beginning of the disk. Both Bluefin and Bazzite have all partitions separate, including /boot and /boot/efi.

I feel like bluefin + ujust install-gaming-flatpaks or bazzite + dx + the gnome variant would be easier.

I think ujust install-gaming-flatpaksis only available on Aurora. I have installed Steam and Lutris flatpaks and they work. I just wonder is Bazzite better for gaming compared to Bluefin in anyway? Does it make it easier?

Huh. I thought bluefin had it as well, I guess not. do you have anything that doesn’t work right now? You can also flatkap install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope if you haven’t already. I would worry about bazzite only if something doesn’t work out of the box for you but as always up to personal choice. I tried bazzite for a bit but I’m not much of a gamer myself.

We have already removed it from source repo few days back