I’ve installed Bluefin a few days ago due to a recommendation and I’m liking it so far.
I’ve seen a few post about rebasing between Bluefin and Bazzite and from the recommendation I understood that that’s fairly easy but am now having “design” problems.
My intention was to regularly rebase. While working I stay on bluefin and when I want to game I can rebase to bazzite and play. A first attempt worked fine but it seems this was never intended? Obviously I’ve chosen bazzite gnome for compatibility.
My question is aimed at understanding whether that’s a feasible approach and what things I should look at. I’d want to try this out for a bit and see where the systems are lacking to maybe fix it, so I can streamline this and have them separated.
Is this feasible
What do’s and dont’s are there for rebasing between the two regularly
What commands, internal functionalities should I look at?
Yes, I agree with @inffy on this (and the recommendation). Re-basing back and forth, I don’t think frequent re-basing is a good thing.
Although… on second thought, it IS an interesting use case that had not occurred to me.
If you continue to do this, though, I’d recommend not hand-editing anything in /etc (or be very careful), as that would effectively get pinned between rebasing due to how ostree does 3-way merges of stuff in /etc when ostree finalizes the staging (as I understand it… still wrapping my head around how it all actually works).
I see. Yes the idea behind it would be that bluefind-dx has everything managed and pre-installed needed to properly and most of all comfortably develop stuff and work in general. Bazzite has everything managed and pre-equipped to comfortably game. My whis would have been not to choose one and build the other one alongside it myself as then I’d again have to build the “gaming” part and take care of tooling I use to optimize etc. I can just say: “I’m done working… I wanna game now, let’s switch to Bazzite” dual boot is obv. an option but I really liked the idea of rebasing as this would keep data between the systems and would mean I really do just reboot instead of maintaining two different OS’.
I’ll play around a little. I already noticed that steam gets ‘removed’ during a rebase back to bluefin. On my next gaming rebase I’d see how that works out. I just thought there might be more who have tried something like this ^^
I mean, if you want to do it and report back, I’d definitely be interested I’d just be afraid you are causing drift and odd things to happen due to the default stuff in /etc.
But as @inffy said, you can still game on Bluefin unless there is a specific thing in Bazzite you need. Also, Bazzite is fine as a desktop. Many people use that regularly.
So.. I’d say that doesn’t work. Rebased between bluefin-dx and bazzite normal a couple of times. Switched to bazzite -dx and remained there for a while. My PC is slow now. Take over two minutes to boot, Applications need ample time to open. Even writing this lags a litte.
Anyhting I can do despite a full Re-Install like any old Linux distro?
I’d just be afraid you are causing drift and odd things to happen due to the default stuff in /etc.