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does bazzite work on macbooks?
does bazzite work on macbooks
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Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:51 PM
i
'm tired of fighting with windows to get my egpu to work and looking at quick google searches linux seems less pain
S
Sebaskitten
does bazzite work on macbooks?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:51 PM
what model
?
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:51 PM
a1707 macbook pro
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:51 PM
igpu and amd dgpu
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:51 PM
should
work
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:51 PM
but by default booting anything else besides mac os
. the Intel IGPU get
's disabled
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:52 PM
I can
't promise but I see nothing here that stands out as non
-working
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:52 PM
so the radeon DGPU becomes the
"igpu
" along with mux switch
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:52 PM
in your case I would install stock silverblue or kinoite
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:52 PM
and then rebase once you
've confirmed that works
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:54 PM
what is the difference of silverblue or kinoite
? just trying to read the github and stuff right now
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:55 PM
i just like how well proton works on my steamdeck and at this point linux gaming is literary a bettery experience than getting it to work on bootcamp windows LOL
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:55 PM
and heard the peeps at the deck discord speak well of bazzite
S
Sebaskitten
what is the difference of silverblue or kinoite? just trying to read the github ...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:55 PM
Silverblue
= GNOME
, Kinoite
= KDE
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:55 PM
Both are immutable Fedora like Bazzite
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:55 PM
ahh yes
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:56 PM
i was kinda thinking of tossing the steamdeck os on it but that might not be good idea
?
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:56 PM
i
'm not gonna use it as a desktop os
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:56 PM
that
's mac os for
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:56 PM
i mean the deck
/HTPC image
S
Sebaskitten
i was kinda thinking of tossing the steamdeck os on it but that might not be goo...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:57 PM
SteamOS is very tailored to the Steam Deck
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:57 PM
bazzite
-deck will do the same thing with more hardware support
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:57 PM
you can use that on your macbook
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/26/23, 11:57 PM
if you want KDE like SteamOS
, install kinoite and then rebase to bazzite
-deck
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:58 PM
ah ye
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:59 PM
i
'm not too experienced with linux environments so it
's
alot
of googling XD
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/26/23, 11:59 PM
i like how the deck has summoned alot more user friendly guides
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 12:24 AM
should i uh
.
. install bazzite with the egpu connected or can i do the connection later
?
@KyleGospo
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 12:24 AM
it is a thunderbolt connection
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 12:24 AM
so a uncommon setup
S
Sebaskitten
should i uh.. install bazzite with the egpu connected or can i do the connection...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/27/23, 12:24 AM
@sebaskitten doesn
't matter when
, i
'd do after
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 12:25 AM
ah yeah
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 12:25 AM
before apple upgraded the firmware on older macbooks if you booted a non mac os with a egpu selected
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 12:25 AM
it would not only disable the igpu but also the dgpu and thus no display
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/27/23, 1:29 AM
@EyeCantCU update
, it
's not plymouth
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/27/23, 1:29 AM
and it works fine in a TTY
K
Kyle Gospo
@EyeCantCU update, it's not plymouth
E
EyeCantCU
•
12/27/23, 1:34 AM
That
's interesting
. I wonder what
's causing issues though
. Can experiment in a little bit
T
termdisc
•
12/27/23, 2:07 AM
Nobara 39 is out today
https://nobaraproject.org/category/changelog/
T
termdisc
•
12/27/23, 2:07 AM
Interesting changes implemented
M
matt_schwartz
•
12/27/23, 2:10 AM
Kyle helped out with a lot of the OLED Deck support components
as well as with transitioning to some of the packages that Bazzite uses
E
EyeCantCU
•
12/27/23, 2:12 AM
Lots of exciting stuff with session select over there
. Will definitely have a look
. GDM on the Deck GNOME image would be nice
E
EyeCantCU
Lots of exciting stuff with session select over there. Will definitely have a lo...
M
matt_schwartz
•
12/27/23, 2:13 AM
its been working great now that GE got it all figured out
. ChimeraOS will most likely start using that method as well
M
matt_schwartz
•
12/27/23, 2:13 AM
lots of trial and error to get there lol
M
matt_schwartz
•
12/27/23, 2:15 AM
its my first time having a package included in an OS which is pretty cool
, it was a good way to learn the RPM packaging process as a total noob
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 3:11 AM
Apparently BCM43602 does not work on Linux
S
Sebaskitten
OP
•
12/27/23, 3:11 AM
_
_cryptagion
•
12/27/23, 3:16 AM
so I have a question
. do you guys create a new container for every app you install
? or just one for each distro you need
?
_
_cryptagion
so I have a question. do you guys create a new container for every app you insta...
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/27/23, 3:16 AM
really depends
, usually i
'll have one box per distro for stuff I plan on keeping long
-term
K
Kyle Gospo
•
12/27/23, 3:16 AM
if it
's a one
-off thing like dependencies to compile something I
'll spin up a new box
_
_cryptagion
•
12/27/23, 3:17 AM
that
's what I figured
, but I wanted to be sure there wasn
't a good reason to do seperate containers for each app
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