Thinking about switching from Nobara; container life sounds interesting, but I'm worried about game
Thinking about switching from Nobara; container life sounds interesting, but I'm worried about game development woes
VLooks like I'm not leaving my home anytime soon lol
VMy towns construction crew dug up our road for the new gas hoses and new pipes for the trench water to flow better
VWelp nvm they just pushed the dirt back into our road lol
VBut there's still a big ole hole so nvm again
KOwned
KIf you're into game development I would love to chat with you
KThat's how I started my career, and I'm still planning to make a game development oriented version of Bazzite
KWould love to hear your use case and what tools you're reliant on
Myou could include something like godot by default. right?
Mblender
Mhmm
MThough, some of those things are already available in the portal
Ma lot of tools are proprietary tho
LFamilies beta in desktop and game mode steam beta keep telling me I have updates when switching between desktop and game mode, I saw one message on here about it a few days ago with no solution, is this occuring to anyone else?
Hsystem update in most cases
Tsteam gaming mode changelogs are never accurate
Topen the system update application
Tsee if you actually have an update, at least there will be a log provided
Tkeep in mind applications and containers also update during this
Tand anything upstream (ublue/fedora)
LNaw no update under the desktop system update app. But when steam launches on desktop it'll say I need to join families beta so I do and when in game mode it'll bring me back into stable and then the cycle occurs whenever going back to desktop
CWell - nothing fancy as I'm only now starting proper, you could say; I'm just worried about GPU acceleration in rolling up containers and things of that sort, as I hear it's a bit of a sticking point. Only things I need that I already don't use sandboxed are Godot and Reaper.
CThat last one is important because I use yabridge for Windows VST compatiblity, and the current versions of Wine have broken compatibility with that. Wasn't too difficult to downgrade and ignore the packages here in Nobara, but I've never really messed with immutable distros.
Hsteam being weird
CGiven my current status, I'd be more than happy to use Bazzite to brave those waters, honestly.
Kgood news is Distrobox is fully GPU accelerated, it's running on your active kernel and not a VM
K
KHere's blender in a fedora distrobox, exported to the desktop
K
Kand here it is picking up ROCM HIP
CVery cool!
Talso good news here
Tno need to downgrade packages
Tcan always rollback to a pinned deployment
Talso rollback to any bazzite build within the last 90 days
Tso if something at a system-level broke, this will take you back keeping your userdata intact
CNow that I think about it, I could just spin up a Reaper + yabridge box with the proper Wine version
CSounds like an even more robust solution.
CThere's been talks about a yabridge Flatpak too, so it could be even easier in the future
Kwe ship BoxBuddy to make it easier, too
Kbutton press to export stuff you've installed
Kso it just shows up as a native app
K
CSuch cool technology
CWhat of kernel versions, though? - either to test regressions in isolation, or just some custom patches
Trollbacks/rebasing
CThere's a lot of niche controller patches that aren't merged upstream, for instance
Tyou can't change the kernel individually without building your own version of bazzite
Tit's all in the image as is
