The number of issues I’ve been having with Bazzite, due to its immutability and my lack of experience, has finally reached the point that I’m no longer willing to deal with.

But I like basically everything about Bazzite, aside from its immutability, and I’d like to preserve as much of it as possible. In particular, I like KDE/Plasma (right?) way more than I liked Cinnamon on Mint, and the whole reason I gave Bazzite a try over Mint was that it supposedly was better for NVidia gaming. Which has absolutely been true, all the minor performance issues I was having on Mint vanished under Bazzite.

So, thoughts and recommendations? Thanks in advance.

Since I’m sure some nerds like me will want to know WHAT issues I’ve been having, the most significant ones would be…

  • I’ve hit a dead-end with trying to setup multiple audio sinks, so I can do what’s been standard behavior in Windows for decades and use both my speakers and headset separately, at the same time, per-application. There’s basically only ONE source of info on how to do this, and it’s written for mutable distros, as it apparently involves doing some firmware config mods or something.

  • I’ve had quite a lot of issues with getting JetBrains Rider and the .NET SDK to work properly with each other, ranging from the inability to get .NET 10 installed, since Rider’s flatpak only includes up to .NET 8, and there IS no flatpak for the .NET SDK itself, to getting .NET CLI tools to run properly from Rider, due to the sandboxing.

  • I was looking to install GameMaker to continue a little side project I started on Mint, and it’s not available on flatpak, nor can I find any wisdom on how I might work around that fact.

  • T͏i͏d͏b͏i͏T͏@mander.xyzEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    At it’s core, Bazzite is Fedora. Nobara is a fork of Fedora with gamers and creatives kept in mind, plus it’s not immutable. So using either just Fedora or Nobara with KDE as the desktop environment will give you the same overall feel and let you dial in your audio. As far as the .NET stuff goes, thats all new to me, but I’d think finding an AppImage or Snap with 10 could be a work around, or just waiting until the Flatpak updates would be the move there.

  • tyler@programming.dev
    6·
    2 days ago

    If you’re going to be doing development, CachyOS is aimed exactly at your use case:

    • gaming
    • with development
    • on nvidia gpu

    It has worked fantastically for me. I tried bazzite as well, but put my wife on it rather than use an immutable distro.

  • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I also love bazzite but had to move to something else because I needed to mess with GPU installation. I looked around and landed on CachyOS. It has a lot of the same focus (performance, out of the box gaming, fast setup, Plasma) but it also lets you sudo mess with everything. Obviously, you’ll be liable to break things more easily but it was a worthy change for me and my needs

    • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      BTRFS with snapper snapshots and a grub bootloader hook (which CachyOS can do out of the box) will protect you from the worst of the mistakes you can make