Introducing the Bazzite Developer Experience (Alpha)

My understanding is that Bazzite has a decky version (boot to Steam game mode like Steam Deck) and a desktop version (boot to KDE or Gnome like other Linux distro).

Will bazzite-dx and bazzite-gdx also have both variations? Or would they only have desktop version like Bluefin and Aurora?

I would be interested in a bazzite-deck-dx. Are there any plans for it?

What is the update frequency of bazzite-dx? Will update the same as bazzite:latest, stable, etc?

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I’ve got a Renoise license that I haven’t used on Linux in a while. My recollection is that I had to download a binary from a site that requires authentication. How does this image get around that?

I installed bazzite-dx-gnome in my notebook and works really good, but in my desktop it freezes after login. Does someone have a similar issue? I rebased from bluefin-dx

If I understand correctly, it automatically picks up updates from upstream Bazzite and just adds the same extra bits to each release. See here: Package bazzite-dx-nvidia-open Ā· GitHub

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I’d look at this as a wishlist, for right now. Nothing’s been implemented yet. Starting to do that research, though.

FWIW Bitwig is available as a Flatpak and IIRC some version of Ableton is already packaged for ā€œBottlesā€.

Havenā€˜t had any success with the latter. IMO, Win Applications are kinda out of scope anyways.

A good few DAWs on Flathub are unofficial, unsupported releases. Maybe there could be something akin to bazzite-arch? The aforementioned would probably lend itself for that too, given its wide selection of packages. Question is how stable that would be, I guess.

I would migrate from Fedora 41 today if the ASUS version of the image was available but that’s not the case yet. Still, run a VM with it and I like what I see, seems much more cozy and focused than vanilla Fedora.

Does anyone know how to rebase to a dx edition? Website takes me to a GitHub with a rebase command, but I don’t think it is THE exact command I need.

docker pull ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-dx:sha256-2bf73c66b7b0065988ba72411f317cf829f0be68a6881b2ae59739bc38218287.sig

I don’t have docker installed. What should I do?

Don’t pay attention to the GitHub Packages instructions, you have to use rpm-ostree. This is explain very well in the docs: Rebase Guide - Bazzite Documentation

So it should be looking something like this?

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-dx:sha256-2bf73c66b7b0065988ba72411f317cf829f0be68a6881b2ae59739bc38218287.sig

Or without the sha256? And instead :stable?

With :stable at the end indeed

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Interested in this too! I have switched to PC handhelds as my main desktop, knowing that I can simply hook up a Steam Deck or ROG Ally to a monitor and then detach it for when I want to go outside - I no longer consider traditional laptops or desktops, and I would love this to be ported over

Really excited for Bazzite-GDX. I’m already really happy with the OS for my personal needs but installing unityhub, jetbrains rider and PlasticSCM (Unity version control) inside distroboxes doesn’t seems to work very well for me.

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…installing unityhub, jetbrains rider…

This is exactly what I’m going through right now! Really interested in trying out Bazzite-GDX when it is ready

How can I install those images as I don’t really see any information in the readme

You just rebase to them

Can you link a documentation?

found it: Rebase Guide - Bazzite Documentation