2y ago

Gaming on Fedora Silverblue

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.

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Wouldn't it be fun to have "a ready-to-game Arch Linux based OCI designed for use exclusively in distrobox"?
- That would be so fun I am buzzing with excitement. I am not talking facetiously either. I am out in the cold as I type this, happy and quivering.
  I cannot wait to get home and try it out!
  
  I cannot wait to get home and try it out!
  Please consider reporting back after you've tried it; I'd love to read your experiences.
- You may be happy, or perhaps dismayed, to learn that I finally installed Bazzite on my desktop.
  I did a bit tonne of sampling, with BlendOS and Vanilla, trying things out, but Fedora wins.
  I have Fedora Silverblue on a usb in case Bazzite does not like my computer, but I think I have done enough hopping for a lifetime.
  I swear I will just jump onto the NIXOS (or guix) bandwagon if I ever decide to switch again.
  
  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.
distrobox is a godsend for immutable distros
- 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.
Use the heroic launcher or lutris flatpaks for those. I know as a fact that lutris supports both.
- I am really keen on Lutris. Nothing beats it for downloading GOG games, not even the galaxy launcher.
  
  That's what I just, it's really just the best

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