I’ve been running bazzite as my primary OS and while its pretty great for gaming but just about every other software is a bit of a pain to figure out. I recently heard about Drauger OS which is based on Ubuntu which I’m way better with. Does anyone have experience with Drauger? I’d like to hear about is before I do the full hop.
I tried installing Drauger before Bazzite but never got it to the point of stability before breaking it and moving on to try other things. (I know he put out a new version recently so I might pull something together to try it again to see if it improved.) Really, though, I’d say just go with Debian itself. Between Steam, Lutris, and Heroic, you don’t need to install gaming tools yourself much anymore, and if you are a fan of the Ubuntu toolkit, that’s mostly Debian. I’ve done a bit of gaming on Debian and never had any issue.
What are you having trouble with on Bazzite that you expect to be different on anything else, though?
That’s actually my primary reason for looking for other options, bazzite had everything pre installed so I didn’t have to hunt down which game software to install or what they so, I could just switch around and see what works. Now that I know what I like and what works, I can just install those myself instead of getting bogged down.
The big issue I have on bazzite is installing the little softwares I use for all my hobbies. Cura, linuxcnc, vsmodelmaker, media rippers, etc. I can’t install them straight to the machine because of the immutable setup so its flatpak or box buddy. There’s a 50:50 that the flatpak is broken, and I can’t for the life of me get anything to actually run in box buddy. If it does actually launch, any graphic sections like the build space in cura are just black. In comparison my partner’s laptop is Ubuntu and our server is Ubuntu server with docker. If I can’t just find the working copy in a software market it’s like two lines in terminal and I’m already using the software.