Bazzite AWS image
I recently came across Bazzite and have been going down the path of cloud gaming. AWS offers GPU instances at a reasonable price with a large number of locations, and as someone who travels globally for work often, and is a casual gamer (maybe 100 hours per year) it's nice to be able to play games from a more powerful machine than a laptop with low latency than having a desktop at home where this is probably infeasible due to latency.
I noticed there is a virtual machine download, but it's actually an ISO and you need to go through a full install. Has anyone build a cloud image compatible to be uploaded as an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) to use instead of setting up Windows Server to game more which is 20% more expensive to use? I'm an expert with Ubuntu and somewhat familiar with the Ubuntu Core desktop which is another type of atomic desktop, but the implementation is vastly different than Fedora's. I'm used to using cloud-init / Ansible to configure something like this, and don't know much of the RH ecosystem to get started.
Has anyone done this before, or at least would you have any pointers to make this a pleasant experience and more worthwhile than trying to turn a Windows Server image into a cloud gaming station? If I get a working image, it's easy enough to publish it and nobody would be opposed, I wouldn't mind publishing it (or letting the team) publish it on the store.
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I'm probably going to switch to CachyOS. Every message I've sent in this server has been ignored and the installer doesn't work when you already have things preinstalled. Not to mention it being immutable is much harder to tinker with
hmm i wouldn't think anybody was ignoring you
bazzite is actually a container image bootable as a distro
It's alright. This looks better anyways. I loved Arch when I used it previously and never really liked RH products except for Ansible. Feels more natural to pick Arch anyways
so when you really need to modify the distro you modify the container image
Yeah, that's annoying. Though I'm more than capable of learning new tooling, I'd rather just use cloud-init and Ansible
Super easy to pair with Terraform to do what I want
it's barely even new
I get the design choice, just thinking this community isn't for me
you modify the image the same way you modify any docker image
with a dockerfile
that lists instructions mostly commands to run
to create a new image
Okay, I know how to do that. Still, I think I'm going to switch. If someone else decides to pick this up feel free to continue
fun fact the underlying tech that fedora atomic & thus bazzite uses is just OSTree
which is just a solution for distro storage
essentially how to store a bootable distro
& have multiple versions of one or even multiple distros
being that it's just this
there\s a script that can make an arch installation that boots with OSTree
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