Bazzite delivers the SteamOS experience Windows handhelds need - and it's terrific

That's a good question. I will have to test it out. I usually play wired. I think the minisforum BD790i I'm using has an Intel Bluetooth chip set. From my experience those have issues with the Xbox controllers and often the dongle is required. I do have the dongle so I will try it out.

Complete wipe. And it was easy without any hassle out of the box.

Is it PITA to run if you have Nvidia GPU?

As I mentioned in another comment, I recently switched from EndeavourOS to Bazzite on my laptop, and it has been amazing. I've only scratched the surface with regards to understanding the ins and outs of ostree, but I can say that so far I really like it. I'm all in on immutable, I think the whole idea is awesome.

This GitHub issue claims you just need to install the rpm, enable the service and reboot, has anything changed in the meantime?

In my limited experience with Tailscale, it was about that simple back then, at least.

FYI, this isn't true. I'm on Bazzite and I'm currently using MullvadVPN and Mullvad browser.

You just need to use rpm-ostree to install it. I don't remember the exact way I did it, but the documentation is out there. Just search for "silverblue" instead of bazzite. Or better yet, maybe even just "mullvad vpn fedora rpm-ostree" would probably get you in the right direction.

Edit: For the person who claims they bricked someone's system while trying to install a vpn application... I don't even know what to say. I would actually love to hear how that is even possible. Especially on an immutable distro... Do we have different definitions of "brick"?

I don't know bazzite but if you just want to use your vpn you could create a wireguard config on the Mullvad site and use this in any NetworkManager. So no direct need for the Mullvad appliction.

The top options here don't work https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=24.05&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=mullvad ?

Have you used BoxBuddy? I know it's not exactly a VM, but it could suffice depending on what you need it for.

It's very much set and forget, and straight up walks you through the basics with a friendly first time setup tool (that you can also invoke at any point afterwards). Useful gaming and quality of life tweaks out of the box, great balance between up to date and stable, atomic updates and built-in rollbacks so it's super hard to break too. It stays out of your way and keeps things updated as needed, you just have to reboot now and then to apply like an Android phone.

The one thing to keep an eye out for is manually editing config files and such isn't going to be the same as you'd expect since it's atomic, but you can still get it done most of the time. Lots of info for Silverblue out there, and as another rpm-ostree based distro, most should apply to Bazzite as well.

Sure! With this module, it's pretty much indistinguishable from vanilla steamos apart from some more complex decky plugins not working. I daily drive it on my own deck.

Yes, simply install Steam and run it in Big Picture mode.

When I used Bazzite, I had it on a samsung laptop and on my steam deck, both worked perfectly for the handful of months that lasted. It integrates seamlessly with steam's updater so apart from updates taking longer, you wouldn't be able to tell it wasn't vanilla from gaming mode. Layering my own packages on top was painless and worked fine too, I particularly remember using tailscale that way. Overall it was rock solid and hands off, most variants keep themselves and flatpaks updated on their own and whatnot.

I came from vanilla stramos and I had it on my laptop as soon as I got it. On the desktop side, I hadn't moved away from windows 10 yet, and by the time I did all my devices were already on NixOS. All in all if nix's declarative approach didn't tickle my nerd bones so perfectly, I'd probably be all in on it to this day.

I've been using it as my daily driver on my laptop for a couple of months, and I cannot recommend it enough. It has been running flawlessly.

I came from EndeavourOS. So it's a big change from bleeding edge, to the insane stability of immutable, but I'm here for it.

And you always have BoxBuddy if there's anything you can't do because ostree, or if you only know how to do it in Arch (or whatever other distro).

Bazzite lets people choose between GNOME and KDE when downloading it. I had no familiarity with either, but received tips that GNOME is more user-friendly.

In terms of discoverability, I was investigating the OS' settings menu pretty intensively, and saw no suggestions that I could add commands to the menu. My other annoyance was around having the right set of things available from the left-hand quick-access on the Files screen. On Windows, this is simply a matter of drag and drop. It's possible I could change this on Bazzite's base file explorer, but if so, it did not make anything readily apparent, even from investigating the available settings and everything in the default menus.

I'd definitely prefer Flatpaks for software, but not every program is available by browsing the Software screen. Programs that I attempted to install through BoxBuddy both took far more terminal knowledge and googling than should be necessary, and didn't actually export to my programs menu as they claimed.

I'm okay with adjusting to a different experience. Less okay with things just not working as documented, or losing out on obvious discoverability options. It feels like an OS has less longevity when its documentation is not built in and relies specifically on message boards - many of which apply their solutions more broadly to Arch or Ubuntu than something as niche as Bazzite.