Hello! I’m very new to linux… I was trying out Mint and it didn’t seem to work well with this laptop, so I switched to Bazzite as it’s one of the distros officially supported by framework. I;ve never tried a non debian based OS before.
I am reading that it’s not good to use the ostree command to install things - for example, I ran into a problem where I’m using Protonmail, installed from flatpak, and it’s telling me to upgrade to a new version (1.9.0) and I can download that directly from proton website, as a .rpm file. Is there a better way to install a .rpm file, and or should I just wait for flathub to eventually update?
Similarly, I wanted to install a version of the Cider app - the one on flathub store on Mint was unusable, once I installed paid version it worked great. I’m wondering if it’s similar with version on Bazaar which i can’t get to work, vs one I could download directly from Cider. I’m still also trying to understand when appropriate to use containers/sandboxes for apps… Would appreciate some recommendations, and maybe also video tutorials. I don’t do well just reading things unless it’s super step by step.
Thanks!!!
Which Linux distro are you using? Bazzite
Which release version? 03.03
Which kernel are you using? linux 6.16.4-107.bazzite.fc42.x86_64
I don’t have experience with updating Bazzite. For the FlatHub bits, have you also raised tickets at FlatHub so that their versions of ProtonMail and Cider get updated?
Oooooh new to Linux and went with Bazzite? Bazzite is an excellent distro but it’s complicated.
So simplest thing I can think of is see if there are beta versions of the flatpaks on flathub, if there are then use that instead and hopefully it’s stable enough for you to use.
If not then you may need to resort to using rpm-ostree install <package name> or sudo rpm-ostree install /path/to/package.rpm to install it into the OS.
Good news on this is that it’s added to the OS atomically along with everything else, so when ever you do a broad upgrade that package will be upgraded along with everything else.
Yeah… I decided to go with because I want to play BG3, I did play last night, and I had a WAY better experience than in linux mint. The graphics could be mostly tuned up to middle/high quality and I was having problems running it in mint, even at lowest quality settings…
Plus, this is one of the 2 distros that Framework officially supports for my processor
Yeah, ive been reading about ostree commands and that there are benefits and drawbacks of using them. I also wonder if most of the community using Bazzite is using it solely for gaming - I’m trying to use for a mix of daily driver for work, & for gaming.
I tried to create a container using the app BoxBuddy to run Cider (which I could also theoretically do to run Protonmail in an Ubuntu container) and it does run the program, but I get no sound. (& have been having problems in general with sound and mic thus far…)
I think it’s going to take me more than a minute to get used to!