I am freaking out on how well distrobox is working for me. I buy a lot of games on itch.io and GOG, and neither have a flatpak. However, installing an Ubuntu container (max compatibility) and launching games from there just works. Okay, I have yet to install a GOG game, but it the Itch client works then what won't?
I am so excited. Containers are so fun. I guess arch would be easier, but whatevs.
You may be happy, or perhaps dismayed, to learn that I finally installed Bazzite on my desktop.
Well played! Welcome to the cool kids club! I've actually used Bazzite myself for a short while a couple of months ago. It felt like a holiday destination with lots of cool stuff, but it was more opinionated than what I'm comfortable with. So I returned back home (read: custom uBlue image) afterwards, where I am in command for what's found inside and where I am free to do whatever I will. Though, I did pick up some of the things I liked from Bazzite 😜, so it was not for naught 😉.
I did a bit tonne of sampling, with BlendOS and Vanilla, trying things out, but Fedora wins.
Very interesting! I've got my own reasons for preferring Fedora *cough*security*cough*, but I'm very interested to know your findings! I'd have to admit that Vanilla OS' upcoming 2.0 Orchid update is very tempting though.
I have Fedora Silverblue on a usb in case Bazzite does not like my computer,
Hmm..., perhaps consider the following:
Rebase back to Silverblue with rpm-ostree rebase fedora:fedora/39/x86_64/silverblue (assuming you're already on Fedora 39).
After you've booted into Silverblue, pin the Silverblue-deployment with sudo ostree admin pin 0.
While still in the Silverblue-deployment, rollback to Bazzite with rpm-ostree rollback.
Reboot, and you should notice that you have one additional entry in the GRUB-menu. That's the Silverblue-deployment where you can always fall back on; just in case*.
The above steps do assume that you haven't pinned any prior Silverblue-deployments; as you don't necessarily need multiple Silverblue-deployments 😅. Furthermore, they assume no additional steps involving Nvidia; but that's mostly because I don't have any experience dealing with that (thankfully).
I swear I will just jump onto the NIXOS (or guix) bandwagon if I ever decide to switch again.
FWIW, you can install both Nix and Guix on Silverblue.
Honestly, it is making my like using linux more. Flatpak made not having the app I wanted available and up to date, distrobox allows me to use a distro that has it up to date natively. Nothing is more dope than that. Except nature? But for computing, I adore it.