On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 2:34 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk < talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Bazzite is known for improved and streamlined Nvidia support, which does nothing for me on this all-AMD rig. It's also primarily aimed at being primarily a games system and secondarily anything else; I can and have installed Steam under Fedora, but to me that's Just Another Repository rather than the OS's main reason for existing. Games that work on the Steamdeck Just Work on Fedora too.
Steamdecks use AMD APU's. So AMD support ought to be good. But they have iGPUs that are a few generations behind that in your box.
No matter. In Fedora everything is as up-to-date as I need, whether in its kernel version, Vulkan or ROCm. I was warned ROCm in particular would be a pain to install (curl, unpack, scripts) but in Fedora it's just "*dnf install rocm*".
Annoying. I tend to only boot every couple of weeks -- when I feel the urge to do updates -- so slow boots would not be a veto.
Fedora updates system files weekly. Between them and the system's problem with sleeping, I find I'm rebooting far more often than I'm used to. Fedora does have flatpaks. I think that they are slightly better, but pretty
similar.
Three big differences: 1. The snap architecture is single-sourced from Canonical. I know that flathub is the default location but it's not a single point of failure as snaps are 2. Ubuntu depends way more than other distros on the snap/flatpak/appimage model. As in, last time I checked not a single browser was available for Ubuntu as a normal .deb install. I personally consider a browser to be so heavily used as to be part of the system software and should be a native package. In Fedora that is the case. While the community offers a repository of Firefox as a .deb package, the process to both set that up and disable the Firefox snap in Ubuntu is a royal PITA that I no longer need to deal with 3. There are no server flatpaks of which I am aware. Ubuntu server uses snaps. Why? One annoyance: "sudo dnf update" won't update them. You can use
"gnome software" gui updater or you can use "flatpak update"
The KDE "discover" app helps update them both.
KDE or GNOME? You used to use KDE, I think. I only use GNOME.
Still on KDE ... though something more lightweight has appeal. I have asked in another thread about Hyprland. Where is "Screen off but don't sleep" setting?
In the KDE power management settings. Screenshot attached. - Evan
