Bazzite has a very simple process for installing software that isn't on Flatpak: You spin up a virtual machine running a better distro and install it there
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I love bazzite for handheld consoles but before I install it on my desktop there needs to be version based on ordinary 'non-immutable' fedora kde. That being said, immutable distros are more stable
Nobara
Nobara promised me a nice dinner and then punched me in the taint
Usually need to pay extra for that
Nobara's handheld ... 'edition', is a very, very rough ride in basic usability compared to Bazzite.
I tried it a month or so back, and it is just constantly asking for admin passwords to re-enable the basic gamescope overlay whenever you do amything to the system.
It asks you... to type in a password... after gamescope has been disabled... which means you have no keyboard.
A workaround to this is to hold the steam button on a deck and go into big picture mode, then use the joycons and buttons to kill steam, then you restart steam, then you can now type in the password.
... But you will have to repeat this process over and over and over again while in desktop mode.
This is what I would call unusable as a handheld PC OS. GE has to... actually figure out how to make it work when it is just a handheld, otherwise, you do not have a handheld OS.
What's your problem with the image based OS?
If there's really anything you need, you can layer it or build your own image quite easily.
Unlikely to happen. Not only is all their build tooling etc. made for immutable distros (and they have a lot of other ones besides Bazzite), but it would also mean throwing away the biggest advantages for little gain.
I've been using it on my laptop for over 6 months now and it has been fantastic.
I mean, if you're really hardcore, you can build your own immutable distro image using the distro you want... but that's way above my paygrade. I don't think it's that difficult, just something I have no intention of learning.
I switched from Bazzite to Garuda to get away from it being immutable. It's been great.
So, Nobara?
I would have stuck with Nobara, which is the first Linux distro I really tried, but it was maintained by one person and eventually they're going to get burned out or worse. I figured it would be better to just go with a distro that had a whole team working on it.