I'm digging desktop bazzite ever since the update that fixed ddccontrol on desktop (no more blank mo

I'm digging desktop bazzite ever since the update that fixed ddccontrol on desktop (no more blank monitor on reboots, yay!). Kinda great that the only criticism on HN is a guy talking about a whopping 7 GB of flatpaks.

Oonedeadhero I'm digging desktop bazzite ever since the update that fixed ddccontrol on deskt...

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/1/24, 5:00 AM

too bad they didn't try the KDE image which has a lot less flatpaks installed lol

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EyeCantCU•1/1/24, 5:04 AM

Absolutely incredible

Ttryhardsoccermomswag too bad they didn't try the KDE image which has a lot less flatpaks installed lo...

Kyle Gospo•1/1/24, 5:13 AM

No doubt that's intentional

Kyle Gospo•1/1/24, 5:13 AM

I figured his original criticism is that it was all flatpaks

Kyle Gospo•1/1/24, 5:13 AM

If I knew he just hated the concept of the flatpak I would have just not engaged

j0rge•1/1/24, 5:16 AM

the space thing was debunked so long ago it's not worth it

j0rge•1/1/24, 5:17 AM

crack open most debs and RPMs and you'll find ... and entire operating system in there.

ChaiQi•1/1/24, 5:18 AM

Even if they did take up 10% more space, that would be an extremely low price to pay for not having incompatible libraries, broken apps, and broken updates because of dependency hell

j0rge•1/1/24, 5:18 AM

https://www.ypsidanger.com/wasting-disk-space/

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On "Wasting disk space"

One of the criticisms people have with containerizing their desktop apps is the "insane amount of space for their environment" that people think it requires. That's a direct quote from a reddit post on the topic from today.

Let's have a look

Today I'll compare two desktops, one will be

j0rge•1/1/24, 5:20 AM

if 1.3GB for 10 popular apps in the age of $50 1TB drives is worth having a broken computer, then by all means, keep using distro packages. And it only gets more efficient the more flatpaks you install.

j0rge•1/1/24, 5:20 AM

most of those comments are by people who don't use it.

Kabiigon•1/1/24, 5:20 AM

has anyone had any luck with steamlink

Kabiigon•1/1/24, 5:20 AM

its not working like it did with steamos

Jj0rge if 1.3GB for 10 popular apps in the age of $50 1TB drives is worth having a brok...

ChaiQi•1/1/24, 5:22 AM

$50 is a 1TB SSD on a good sale
I think I've seen packs of HDDs at $20/TB

Kabiigon•1/1/24, 5:22 AM

its good depending on the brand

ChaiQi•1/1/24, 5:24 AM

True, that does vary a bit. I think I saw those numbers for solid brands at Micro Center

ChaiQi•1/1/24, 5:24 AM

Wish I had one in the same city...

Josh G•1/1/24, 5:43 AM

Question? Would using an external m.2 drive plugged into the USB port run windows (for dual boot/destiny2 only works on windows) be faster, the same, or slower than running it off the microsdcard

JJosh G Question? Would using an external m.2 drive plugged into the USB port run window...

Kyle Gospo•1/1/24, 5:44 AM

Faster

KKyle Gospo 👀

Kyle Gospo•1/1/24, 8:06 AM

HikariKnight•1/1/24, 8:13 AM

that was a quick 400+ stars

tryhardsoccermomswag•1/1/24, 8:13 AM

yeah wow lol

Raltay•1/1/24, 9:02 AM

Sorry for repeating my previous message, but maybe now somebody may be able to help me:

I have a problem - after having to forcefully reboot OLED (window manager (?) hung in desktop mode), now every time I try to enter desktop mode I'm welcomed by a black/blank screen and I have to hard reboot OLED (Ctrl+Alt+F# to enter TTY doesn't seem to work). Gamescope mode works fine.

Deleting ~/.local/share/kscreen folder hasn't helped (per @Kyle Gospo suggestion at bazzite on steam deck, desktop mode is black screen)

I'm not personally sure whether it's kscreen issue or something deeper with systemd not reaching expected target due to some issue. The one thing which makes me suspect of the latter is that after executing 'just fleek-install-themes', I remember seeing in stdout some error about systemd service failing to reload (I don't remember exact details now, haven't paid too much attention to it). That's the same session where desktop UI 'hung' some time after (UI turned gray and never recovered).

I dumped journalctl from single boot where this issue happens.

I'll appreciate any help in recovering Desktop mode (Gamescope seems to be working OK).

desktop_mode-black_screen-journal.log636.7KB

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