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  • Friend just hopped to Bazzite from Windows.
    I was hoping the atomocity would be a great boon - you kind of can't beeak it right.

    Well, he wanted to configure RGB lighting on his mouse but the flatpak openrgb did not work, supposedly the udev rules included in bazzite by default, are not up to date or there was some other problem.
    As such we had to install openrgb the usual system-wide way, with rpm-ostree in terminal - something I was hoping he would never had to do.

    • I honestly don't think an immutable distro is a great way to introduce people to Linux. It's not simple to do some things that are easy in anything else. It's going to drive a lot of new users away. The things that make it unbreakable also make it difficult for noobs.

      • NGL, I've been using Fedora Silverblue as my beginner distro, and while most of it has been great and plug-n-play with little issue, there's really frustrating shit about it. If I'm trying to look up how to do terminal stuff to install something not on flatpak, 99% of the time the instructions are for regular Fedora, not Silverblue. So I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to use Cisco packet tracer without using a wine app, because a version provided wasn't atomic.

        Just yesterday, I wanted to try getting ShareX to work, and was trying to figure out a more native way to do ShareX + wine from the CLI, so I tried to install wine, but it uses its own repo, so I had to look up how to install a repo for Silverblue, in which there were far less results, and the few answers I saw were like "put the repofile in the folder for repositories." I'm so lost man. Idk where these shits are in my files. I tried reading what I think is the Silverblue documentation, but it doesn't explain much.

        Sometimes I seriously think of switching to reg Fedora because my life would be far easier when having to find answers, and as long as I make backups, fucking my system up won't really matter much.

      • Honestly though, most actual non-techie users just need a web browser and the odd desktop office application.

        For people who have never used a command line interface, and who would have no idea what to do with one anyway, you really can't much more straightforward than something like Bazzite or Bluefin.

    • As such we had to install openrgb the usual system-wide way, with rpm-ostree in terminal - something I was hoping he would never had to do.

      There is nothing wrong with doing that if there's no better option. You're not losing out on anything.

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