PSA: If you use Bazzite you need to do a manual fix to get updates
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Bazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that's great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.

Bazzite is an alternative OS to SteamOS for the deck and other handheld PCs. Unfortunately due to a mistake, anyone who installed Bazzite before July 3rd 2024 won’t get automatic updates.

If this affects you, I’d suggest checking out the article to get instructions on fixing it.

    •  Fubarberry   ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) OPEnglish
      15•3 months ago

      It has all the advantages of steamOS, can boot straight into game mode, supports Decky plugins, etc.

      However it also supports installing traditional Linux programs permanently (which steam OS generally won’t let you do), and has other benefits too.

    •  CreativeTensors   ( @CreativeTensors@beehaw.org ) English
      9•3 months ago

      Because it’s based on fedora atomic it uses rpm-ostree, which lets you layer packages to persist between updates. Good for stuff that isn’t available as a flatpak or doesn’t work as well when installed as a flatpak. Beyond that not much, maybe if someone doesn’t trust Valve with their OS?

      On SteamOS you can still kind of have non-flatpak packages persist by using distrobox. It’s still a sandbox, just one that has a bit more latitude in what you can install than a flatpak.

      edit: distrobox seems more integrated with the host OS than I thought

      •  Telorand   ( @Telorand@reddthat.com ) 
        2•3 months ago

        Yep, distrobox is a wrapper for Podman, which is also installed by default.

        But I agree, there’s actually not a ton of functional difference between SteamOS and Bazzite, unless you want/need to use your Deck like a laptop. If you are only doing gaming, SteamOS is actually the better choice, because Valve has patches and modifications that aren’t yet included in upstream that maximize the hardware’s capabilities and stability.

  •  AutoTL;DR   ( @autotldr@lemmings.world ) BEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Bazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that’s great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.

    Developer Jorge O. Castro noted in a forum post how they “were rotating our cosign keypairs this morning, which is the method that we use to sign our images” and unfortunately they “made a critical error which has resulted in forcing you to take manual steps to migrate to our newly signed images”.

    They have a script set up that you can run that will fix the problem, so all you have to do is run this in a terminal app (code source):

    curl -sL https://fix.universal-blue.org/ | sudo bash

    To ensure it doesn’t ever happen again, they’ve noted some process changes to be implemented.

    See all the details in the forum post announcement.

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