I haven’t bothered to actually search or troubleshoot yet, but since I’m here - have you had any problems with power management failing to automatically turn screens off when idle?

I don’t get consistent behavior there it seems (AKA it leaves them on when it shouldn’t), but that’s I think the only significant oddity I’ve found in the ~7 months or so I’ve been running Bazzite. And like I said I’ve done basically nothing yet to try to solve it, just wondering if you’ve seen it. I have the issue on a desktop and a laptop, using entirely different monitors (not even same brand) FWIW.

Yep I use KDE-flavored Bazzite and actually forgot GNOME was even offered! It works deliciously. Came over from Windows last winter finally and boy, the UI alone is just so much nicer.

You’ve never sharked a genie? What a prude!

Just wanna add another Bazzite recommendation! If you’re on the fence and feeling like “but my games!” - Bazzite’s got your back. Shit works great.

Yeesh. For the privilege of yourself and your users working with a horrible buggy mess of half replaced, half duplicated (triplicated? worse?) apps and features.

And a near guarantee that in a 5 year timeframe, you see 1+ others who paid for that “data in my own jurisdiction” service somehow get fucked in ways they shouldn’t, be it leak or strongarm or whatever.

I’m not suggesting Windows is doomed or anything extreme, but they have cratered their credibility with anyone paying attention. Whole thing feels closer to poorly strung together malware than a serious OS to me.

Auto PDF text extraction caught your eye too? Got a solution you like currently?

Maybe they’re hoping there’s an untapped market for that, which would involve strong margins and therefore help fund work on more run-of-the-mill hardware…?

Lots of assumptions I just made 😅

Hard agree, I have a B&W laser of theirs from similar era bought new and it just works and works.

As someone new to both, I’m commenting to hear your answer to the other person’s “why?” :)

For OP - Bazzite works a little differently as an immutable OS. Basically only a small handful of directories are editable, and the immutable nature is intended to help provide stability, particularly for users who don’t want to tinker as much (at least that’s my understanding).

Here’s their documentation on auto mounting drives. You’ll probably want the link titled “KDE Partition Manager Guide” under GUI Methods.

But you can edit /etc/fstab as suggested here, and I’ve done it that way. Just need to mount it under /var/mnt/ and disregard locations recommended by guides that pertain to other distros.

Edit: just saw someone else posted the same link, whoops!

LOL

Boy have I got news for you…

FWIW I boot Bazzite in desktop mode with two 27" displays and have been very happy. Mixed use, not nearly as much gaming as it’s really intended for most of the time, and occasionally patchy experience but (un-)usually great. So many quality of life little doodads.

For instance, the screens brighten and dim effortlessly with my scroll wheel on a widget in the taskbar, just by default. Discovered it by accident lol, what else don’t I know?!

It’s excellent. Folks should use it.

Yes, this one has tasted blood before. You can tell by the way that it is.

Sorry about the narrow urethra, Hank.