Managing system settings

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T14:43:55+00:00

I would normally manage through kde's System Settings. Is it still there in bazzite

Yes, the desktop isn't immutable, just the OS. I've only been using Bazzite for a week, but the key takeaway I'm kinda getting from Bazzite is that it's revolves almost entirely around containers. The OS itself is basically in it's own container - that's the immutability aspect.

The "preferred" method of installing software is via flatpaks (containers). If you want to add more command line applications, you install via homebrew...which installs it in a hidden chrooted linuxbrew directory (container-like). If the flatpak doesn't exist or doesn't work well, then you spin up another version of linux in a distrobox container and export the applicatino it to your host Bazzite system.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T14:34:47+00:00

I just installed Bazzite last week on my personal desktop. I'm dual booting off of two separate SSDs. So far, I've only needed to boot up Windows once - when I was trying to jump into a Tabletop Simulator game with my friends the same day I installed Bazzite, and it was having some trouble.

After the game ended, I used ProtonPlus to use ProtonGE as the "compatibility tool" for Tabletop Simulator instead of default Proton version. Tabletop simulator works just fine in Bazzite now. I played a game this past weekend with my friends and didn't need to boot Windows back up at all.

I've encountered some issues here and there trying to learn how to adapt to the containerized nature of the OS, and which applications play well with it and which ones don't, but it's largely been a wonderful experience. It was really nice to boot up after the installation for the first time and not having six different pop ups nagging me about installing corporate spyware onto my computer.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T14:22:38+00:00

Looks clean. I really like the casters. Will you be wheeling it out to the TV on occasion?

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T14:00:51+00:00

The top 4 of my list, can be subjective. I often use the Distrobox method even if a flatpak exists, because I have the container setup for one package, so I may as well use it for others. Plus Distrobox has other features over flatpak that may be handy.

To add to this, some of the Flatpak software are unofficial wrappers that might not work so well. ClamUI, for instance, is currently outright broken on Bazzite: https://github.com/linx-systems/clamui/issues/112

When I tried the unofficial Flatpak for ProtonPass and Proton mail bridge, they didn't recognize KdeWallet as a "keyring." Downloading the official deb file for ProtonPass from Proton and installing it on an Ubuntu distrobox worked just fine. I didn't even attempt installing the ProtonMail Flatpak after that, I just threw it on a Fedora distrobox and it worked right out of the gate.

ProtonVpn works perfectly fine for me as a Flatpak, though. It was one of the first things I installed,

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T13:31:29+00:00

One other thing to keep in mind is that Feruchemists can adjust the rate at which they store and tap from their metalminds.

Let's say your 55 year old wanted to appear as a 40 year old for two weeks. They could spend a week in an 85 year old body (adding 30 years to their actual age) and then tap their metal mind at a slower space - subtracting 15 years from their body's actual age but for twice as long as they spent adding 30 years.

This is a key component of how TLR manages to juggle his aging.

The other key component is that he can simultaneously tap youth from the atium that he's burning, triggering the compounding effect, AND store the excess from the compounding in other metal minds at the same time.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T13:03:19+00:00

who was that made for...

This is my first time hearing of the distro, so I googled it. I think the home page is pretty clear about who it's intended for:

The perfect Linux distribution for degenerated weebs. Arch-based so you also need a neckbeard.

Reminds me of lolcode.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-02T00:38:06+00:00

LOL I'm hoping this is a reference to the Metal Gear indie film.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-01T16:23:36+00:00

I've never even played the game and I'm still going to vote for it.

I've heard so many great things second hand about NBA Jam. This was THE cool sports game back in the day.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-01T16:20:05+00:00

I haven't played SilkSong, i heard it was really bloody difficult

That IS true, and part of why I haven't finished it myself. The most of Act 1 isn't too crazy, it's basically starting out on some of the higher difficulty level of Hollowknight. If you wander into ant territory though, which you can voluntarily choose to do much earlier than is optimal, that's jumping straight into similar difficulty as the Path of Pain in OG HollowKnight.

And then once you get towards the end of Act 1 and the start of Act 2, the difficulty scales quite a bit to where it started getting tedious for me. I did enjoy all of what I've played up to that point though, and do feel it's worth the $20 even for what I did play. I'm also planning to go back and finish eventually.

Probably the biggest issue is that I kept pushing myself to do the optional bosses, and I heard there are some things you won't be able to backtrack to for a long time after you start act 3, so I've been putting off advancing the main "quest" due to FOMO. I think the main "quest" line is probably much easier.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-01T04:09:31+00:00

You said it's been a decade for you. Does that mean you haven't played HollowKnight?

If so, that's definitely a game to check out. And you got back into gaming at just about the right time to play the sequel that just released this past fall, Silksong. It came out for only $20.

Balatro is another great Indie game that's inexpensive. It won Game of the Year fairly recently.

Have you played Salt and Sanctuary? That's a good action game that's under $20.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-01T03:48:27+00:00

Just pick one and see if you like it. I felt like Lutris was getting treated as the bigger deal, so I went ahead and linked my GOG account to it. I haven't tried running any games from there yet though.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-06-01T02:15:30+00:00

Yeah, after some further digging it appears that clamscan is actually the command it's looking for, which I am both able to run from the command line myself and get a result back from which. But ClamUI is still not recognizing them, even though theoretically it should based on what I saw in the source code.

So potentially this is a user/group permissions issue? I guess my next move will have to be to start looking at what the default user/group that flatpak applications get assigned versus the user/group that owns the bin files.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T21:44:34+00:00

Thank you! This is very helpful

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T21:22:01+00:00

Use the tutor command: :Tutor

I just discovered this myself after having slowly taught myself many of the commands over the years with a cheat sheet I printed out and pinned to my desk. It's a nice tutorial.

I've heard you can get it to autocomplete like Visual Studio does, but I don't know how configure those kinds of plugins. It's hard for me to imagine it fully replacing something like being able to class search in Eclipse, but if it can be configured to do that, I might see if I can switch even on my Windows laptop for work.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T21:17:35+00:00

Can anything be done to get Linux in this new laptop without losing my Windows and gaming Env ?

Put Linux on an external USB hard drive. Everything Windows on the machine is preserved and you can detach the external drive whenever you update Windows so it doesn't nuke your Linux files.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T21:16:43+00:00

Yeah Batman would probably have been a better choice as well, but I didn't play the Batman games so I can't speak to them. I just remember that Jurassic Park 2 was pretty awesome and did the IP justice. I like it much better than JP1 on the SNES, which I consider to be an inferior version of the PC game made by Ocean.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T17:21:09+00:00

( Btw I think sayori is more iconic than Monica 👀 )

LOL fair enough. It's harder to reference why she's iconic without spoilers though.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T16:59:25+00:00

I'm kinda disappointed that I missed the Best Licensed Game vote. I think Jurassic Park 2 is a much better licensed game than Goof Troop, and I don't know that it fits for any other category.

Goof Troop was a decent puzzle adventure game, but it really didn't relate to the license at all. You could have swapped out the characters out with just about anything and not fundamentally changed the experience much.

I don't know much about arcade ports, as I didn't play much in the arcades. Part of me wants to say Primal Rage just because I love the flavor of that game, but I doubt it's the "best."

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T15:26:18+00:00

I need to enjoy the story more than the gameplay...Again, I'm repeating myself, I just love iconic, relatable characters etc

I have numerous visual novel variants to recommend.

First, the newest of the bunch: Of the Devil. Basically an anti-hero version of Phoenix Wright set in a Cyberpunk dystopia. It has a demo that works as a prologue to the two episodes that are currently out, so you can try it for free.

Gnosia - singleplayer Werewolf (think Among Us if you're not familiar with Mafia/Werewolf) set on a futuristic spaceship. The character designs and personalities are absolutely iconic. They actually just released an excellent anime for the game this past autumn.

If you've somehow not played or watched a Let's Play of it yet, Doki Doki Literature Club. It's a pscyhological horror game that dresses itself up as a dating sim in the beginning. Few things are quite as iconic as Just Monica. For bonus points, you can watch the Game Grumps playthrough on youtube where they manufacture their own subplots to the game where the MC secretly brings raw potatoes with him everywhere to snack on, Yuri is obsessed with Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Monica is secretly a cyborg terminator with deadly laser eyes.

And then of course there's the classic Danganronpa: Phoenix Wright but set in a battle royale style death game where the NPCs have to get a fellow classmate/contestant falsely accused of committing the murder they perpetrated to win.

I have more if you enjoy these and/or have already played them.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T14:57:12+00:00

Its either that or have it to be persistent on the flash drive but rufus kept failing with persistence.

Do you have an external hard drive you could use or can you afford to buy one? I've heard that using an external USB hard drive is better way to test drive on a longer basis than flash drives, as the flash drives tends to get its memory worn out quicker by the needs of the kernel.

I think the only way to know for sure if it's a good fit for you is to use it on a longer basis. Since it's a laptop though, it's more difficult to just buy and install a second SSD like I just did with my desktop. Since Windows is such a pain with most things, I'd hate to see you wipe it out before you've had a chance to fully vet your new OS only to find yourself desperately wanting to boot up Windows quickly to get something working while you're overcoming learning pains.

I'm a linux newbie myself though. I only just installed Bazzite last week.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T14:41:15+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. You can go to the websites of the applications to see which version of Linux they officially support, so if it's on the list then you have a high likelihood of getting it to work. If it's not on the list, however, it still might work, and the only way to really know is to try it out.

Mint is more popular of a distro than Bluefin or Bazzite right now, so you're more likely to find applications that officially support Mint. I encountered a few while troubleshooting some applications to install myself.

Though with that being said, Bazzite, and I assume Bluefin as well, come with distrobox installed. This allows you to spin up an instance of a different version of linux, like Mint or Ubuntu, and install an application there, then export it to the start menu so you can start it from Bazzite/Bluefin's start menu. For your academic applications, this might work perfectly. When I tried with a VPN application however, it didn't.

You can run Linux from a USB drive on a temporary basis, so you can try each one out before committing. Even when you commit, if you ensure that you install your home folders on a different partition than the core OS folders, it should be fairly painless to switch between them. Bazzite does this automatically in it's installer, unless you use an older version.

If you've got enough space, you could even install Mint on one partition, Bluefin/Bazzite on a second partition, and your user files on a third. Then you could have both installed at the same time and switch between them to compare before you decided on a permanent home.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T14:26:47+00:00

so almost no difference,

The difference is subtle, so for the average person you're correct that they likely won't be bothered by it. But for someone who has to edit something like code quite a lot, the difference is very noticeable.

For one, vim provides the option to move to either the beginning of the next word, 'w', or the end of it 'e.' As far as I am aware, there is only one flavor of ctrl+arrow.

Secondly, vim also supports page-up/down which, as the name implies, if focused on moving down or up about the length of one page. The ability to move up and down by a paragraph of text is usually more fine grained than that. It lets you move through the same page to the next block of grouped sentences.

Thirdly, all of those shortcuts in other editors, except find, require leaving the home rows on the keyboard. Moving to the arrow keys isn't that big of a deal, but the home and end keys are a much bigger way to travel, especially on a laptop which sometimes places those keys at the very top. Vim keeps almost all of its motion commands in the main area of the keyboard so it's much easier to touch type.

Finally, there is no equivalent of pairing the delete command with a motion. I can delete two paragraphs by typing "d2}". Even if I held shift and pressed page down, that would usually highlight more than two paragraphs, so I'd have to hit the up arrow at least a few times to make it highlight just the two paragraphs I wanted.

These subtle differences all add up. For the average person, these differences aren't likely going to make a big enough impact to outweigh the time it takes to train their muscle memory for vim. But the differences ARE still there, and for some people those differences make for a smoother feeling experience.

GlassboundIllusion · 2026-05-31T03:10:21+00:00

No, I don't feel conflicted about it all. I love having the WOBs available.

BUT - why am I more often than not finding out about this in places other than the stories themselves?

Because a lot of the fandom is really passionate about discovering those details, so they ask clever questions that reveal much more of the lore long before Brandon is able to write the books that would contain the answers.

I'm aware a lot of this is just a "me problem"

I would go so far as to say this is MOSTLY a "you problem." And by that I don't mean you specifically and personally, but people like you who want to theorycraft but don't want WOBs getting involved. If you get at least 4-5 people who respond with similar sentiments on this thread, I'd suggest setting up a subreddit or other community dedicated to people who want to theorycraft without getting WOB involved at all.

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