Excited about bazzite I ve been
Excited about bazzite. I've been disappointed by kinoite before. I like the idea of an immutable usrmerge. All the inevitable cruft being relegated to $HOME as much as possible is exciting. I intend to use it as more of a user than as an admin though - admin is the day job. Is there a good document/article on the general delineation of what's part of the immutable partition, and what's containerized? I'm assuming that the DE on down is part of the immutable installation, but anything else is expected to be installed as a flatpak, appimage, via distrobox/toolbox, or homebrew if I'm being cheeky? I suspect that I'll need to get my head around rpm-ostree as well eventually, or is that just if I need to add RPMs or other such things? When you say OCI Image, do you just mean the immutable part being able to run containers in podman or flatpak?
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Lots of good questions here, just creating a thread to keep things tidy. 🙂
As someone who's been helping with the docs, I think there are areas of improvement to explain all this more than we do already!
yeah for rpm's you'll use rpm-ostree, that will let you customize the image part, but generally speaking it's easier to do things in the flatpaks/userspace
many of the things that would be annoying for you to have to use rpm-ostree for just come with bazzite already
you 100% can run any container on the thing, it comes with a container runtime. So any docker/oci image will work, that pretty much means anything can run on the thing
the OCI image part for the OS is the transport mechanism, the entire OS is deliverted to you that way from github:
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/pkgs/container/bazzite-deck/121777065?tag=latest
see those list of tar+gzips? that's the payload (bazzite), and then at the end you'll see the metadata if you scroll down
Right. I've had my head in linux on and off since 1994 running slackware 1.2. Trying to get less stuck in my ways. I'm generally happy running in anything RPM or DEB based, but it becomes a headache every couple of years anyway. Quite hoping that this is a solve for that. Doubly so if I can still run steam/proton stuff.