Things that need work

Bazzite
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Install: The easiest installation is Mint. It goes so smoothly. These are the issues I encountered in my install:

Install was to be a simple replacement of Mint. But install for Bazzite does not recognize that there is another Linux there or if the partitions equal what Bazzite wants. If I delete the Mint partition and point install at that I get an error (no signature) killing the install. IF I delete all partitions and tell Bazzite Install do it automatically the install works. Why can’t install recognize what is installed and then delete the Mint data and install in that btrfs partition?

POST INSTALL:
Why are the two monitors treated as individual entities? I hate having to manually set wallpaper on each monitor separately.

Bazzite appears to think that I can only use a remote printer. I have my Brothers printer installed on the USB port and it cannot be found!!! So now I need directions on how the hell I get this printer installed? I do all printing for the entire family for school work so I have to get this connected. Bazzite is the ONLY OS that I have installed that does not install the printer.

KDE Partition Manager : wow this is extremely basic. Disks is fantastic and KDEPM is totally basic. Things it fails on: I cannot find any way to set a volume to mount at startup. It is hard to find ownership of volumes.

Network: My system is wired and as such I get the maximum speed of the network. Here in Colombia that is 500Mbps. However, unlike other OS I’ve installed, Bazzite sets the speed to 100mpbs. I have to enter the network configuration, change the setting from Automatic to Manual, change the speed to 1G and save it to get my maximum speed happening.

Network: NO FIREWALL???!!! WTF?

Integrity: No Timeshift or equivalent installed as far as I can tell. Having a backup of my system is important.

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  1. We are looking at moving to the newer webui anaconda that does have better detection for dual boots.

  2. Wallpapers: That’s how plasma works.

  3. Printer. If it’s a USB device you should be able to connect to it. Check in cups directly if you are having a problem. If not, ipp is the usual go to.

  4. I believe Bazzite is switching to disks from kde partition manager.

  5. We don’t change anything here. Your nic is auto negotiating 100 Mbps.

  6. There is a firewall. Its firewalld.

  7. Ostree has built in rollbacks. You can boot into your previous booted image from grub. You can also rebase to any previous image build as well. For user data (which time shift isn’t usually used for) you can use dejadup, pika backup, vorta, and there is btrfs- assistant

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  • Well, it isn’t exactly dual boot as much as installing in a partition already occupied by linux
  • Printer: I had to download and install Brothers drivers then I was able to see it.
  • I truly hope they do the switch. It is so easy to accomplish what could be complex tasks.
  • Network: I have installed many OS’s that set 1G as my speed. So as a developer I have to ask what is different between what they did and what you do in Bazzite install? To the best of my memory Bazzite is only the second OS I installed that gets it wrong.
  • Okay, I found the firewall. I’ve worked with and configured many firewall implementations but this firewall is horrible. I can’t even tell what the hell I’m looking at. The general config is Output allow all Input allow none and then I can write overrides. Specifically I need to write an override for Udp and Ip to allow two way on 53316 but it looks like it will take a week of study to do that.
  • So just a different viewpoint of how rollbacks work. I can do that!
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The default firewall config is:

1-1024: deny all - allow ssh, cups, and others
1025-65535: accept all.

You can change the default zone from Fedora Workstation to Fedora Server to make it more locked down. But will have to add your services.

Personally, I do this from either the firewall GUI or on the cmdline with firewall-cmd

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It took a bit of time to interpret what I was seeing. But I did find that all the ports are open. And I do know that if there is no listener on any of the ports they all appear closed to hackers. Since I do not play PVP games I think I’ll kill those and open just the one port.

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That was introduced since people were asking for it in the KDE community.