• bsergay@discuss.online
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    4 months ago

    like not being able to put icons on the desktop with Steam due to it being Flatpak and Valve not having enabled that specific option)

    Interesting. Bazzite has (for some time now) been shipping the native Steam package; so not the Flatpak one.

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      Oh yes, that’s entirely my own fault. I first installed Aurora, then Steam as Flapak and later rebased to Bazzite. It was all just for trying stuff out, on my main machine, the install will be clean.

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        4 months ago

        I’m totally new to Atomic Desktops. How rebasing differs from installing fresh OS?

        And what exactly is rebasing though?

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          Think of it like you have a base OS that is stock, like Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. Then the different ublue offerings, Bluefin/Aurora/Bazzite/Ucore take those and add new things on top. If you rebase, anything you installed as a user isn’t touched. But all of the addons change to whatever the default is for that ublue variant.

          So someone rebasing from Bluefin/Aurora to Bazzite will have Lutris and Steam (and other gaming specific software and system tweaks) automatically ‘layered’ as part of the default experience, since Bazzite is targeted primarily at gaming, and the other two for general desktop use.

          You’re swapping out the default system image, just like when you update and the update is actually just replacing your entire OS with the new version (until the feature that let’s them only replace things that have changed gets finished).