I recently set up Bazzite on my friend’s system after switching from Linux Mint due to some Nvidia driver issues. Although the hardware problems are not there anymore, the distro is now facing problems installing certain programs for software development that they had no problem installing in the previous distro. I think there are issues related to the immutability of the distro, though I am not sure since I am new to Linux too. Additionally, my friend is worried about higher storage consumption and slower performance in certain applications.

I realise the distro is primarily meant for gamers and my friend is not much of a gamer themselves, however they told me they appreciate its friendlier KDE interface so I wish to avoid switching from this distro again if possible. However I fear that they may encounter more errors in the future and that I may not be available to help them out whenever needed, so I am in a bit of a conundrum.

Thus I intend to ask here if it is possible to arrange something for easing development related tasks e.g. VM, distrobox etc. or whether it is easier to simply switch to some other compatible distro.

  • Damage@feddit.it
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Well I disagree. I tried Bazzite on my desktop and then installed it on my laptop, even though I seldom play games on it. I’m a long-time Linux user and a tinkerer, and so far I haven’t found anything I wanted to do and I couldn’t.

    I can compile software with compilers from distrobox, I can design and slice 3d parts and send them to my printers, manage my servers, customize my system… Sure you can’t easily change your DE, although I guess it would be somewhat possible with rpm-ostree, but other than that I don’t see many limitations.

    The main difference is that you should refer to Bazzite’s docs FIRST, because if you just search the web for your issue/goal, you’re going to find instructions that may not be compatible with an immutable distro.

    • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Well i am new user. Now I’m learning how to use this distrobox, so i can install something that would be a copy paste from a git-hub page. Maybe this tool is the solution to my problems.

        • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Well i try to install FAF on Linux. I set a container for fedora 41 and installed the prerequisites with the terminal from the container. So far all good. But when i run the ./setup.sh (step 4) i get

          ============================================================ Wineboot ============================================================ wineserver: using server-side synchronization. 002c:fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0) wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135

          Script error! The installation has failed. Please report this to the author

          Maybe i will check it later with clear mind.

          • Damage@feddit.it
            1·
            50 minutes ago

            Found this on the issue tracker, it tells you to try deleting the wine prefix, also from the error it does seem like a wine problem (can’t load a dll, those are windows libraries), not a system problem.

            So right now you’re on Bazzite? And you’ve run this in distrobox on a fedora container? What happens if you run it directly on Bazzite, ignoring the dependency installation (those packages are all already on Bazzite, if you want you can check yourself with rpm --query --all | grep -i packagename).

            BTW, asking for help is an option, they have a discord.