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.
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.
Wouldn’t it be fun to have “a ready-to-game Arch Linux based OCI designed for use exclusively in distrobox”?
If you want a smooth transition, then consider waiting a couple of weeks to a month. And if you’re on one of the ‘immutable’ spins, you can just try it and rebase back to Fedora 38 if you don’t like what you see.
Thank you for reporting back! Much appreciated!
Interesting. Unfortunately, I don’t own an Nvidia device. Therefore, I can’t tackle it myself. Distrobox should allow the use of Nvidia, but I’m unaware if this applies to the bazzite-arch container as well. The picture you shared and the link to its FAQ-page (found below) do suggest otherwise, unfortunately…
FWIW, I’ve always experienced better performance inside the bazzite-arch distrobox container, at least compared to Flatpak*.
Because the
distroimage it’s used in conjunction with, Bazzite, is Fedora-based, while Steam OS is based on Arch. Bazzite is Fedora-based in the first place, because Arch doesn’t officially have any plans for ‘immutable’ distros yet. As for the remaining distros, only Fedora and NixOS (see Jovian-NixOS) have a sufficiently mature and suitable platform at this point in time.This happens way more often than you might expect. Even the so-called ‘toolbox’ containers from Distrobox miss a lot of packages required to support software graphically. Consider running it inside a terminal and pay attention to error codes etc; those might/should help you resolve the issue. Sometimes it helps to explicitly use the
-v
or--verbose
option to ensure that the program actually communicates what’s happening.