Bazzite and mesa-git
Hello!
Bazzite seems great so far, but one thing that I'm not really sure how to do is, how to use mesa-git. Specifically I'm interested in getting it working with Steam.
I'm currently dual booting Fedora 40 KDE, and Bazzite 40 Gnome. On my Fedora install, it's simple enough to enable this repo, then update the system: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/xxmitsu/mesa-git/ - of course, I suppose this will only work with rpm packages, not Flatpak, but on Fedora I'm using the native Steam install so it's fine there. On Bazzite, well, I'm not sure how to proceed here.
As far as I understand, there are at least 3 options:
1. I could still figure out how to layer mesa-git, but I'm assuming this is unsupported, could be prone to breakage, and lead to other issues
2. I could just install the flatpak version of Steam and run just Steam with mesa-git. For that, I would basically have to use this I believe: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mesa-git-extension
3. Distrobox container, for example: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite-arch - I would run Steam from this and have mesa-git installed on it
Bazzite seems great so far, but one thing that I'm not really sure how to do is, how to use mesa-git. Specifically I'm interested in getting it working with Steam.
I'm currently dual booting Fedora 40 KDE, and Bazzite 40 Gnome. On my Fedora install, it's simple enough to enable this repo, then update the system: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/xxmitsu/mesa-git/ - of course, I suppose this will only work with rpm packages, not Flatpak, but on Fedora I'm using the native Steam install so it's fine there. On Bazzite, well, I'm not sure how to proceed here.
As far as I understand, there are at least 3 options:
1. I could still figure out how to layer mesa-git, but I'm assuming this is unsupported, could be prone to breakage, and lead to other issues
2. I could just install the flatpak version of Steam and run just Steam with mesa-git. For that, I would basically have to use this I believe: https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/mesa-git-extension
3. Distrobox container, for example: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite-arch - I would run Steam from this and have mesa-git installed on it
GitHub
A ready-to-game Arch Linux based OCI designed for use exclusively in distrobox. - ublue-os/bazzite-arch
Solution
Trying to use a different version of mesa will lead to gnome or kde crashing
