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  • No bazzite on this handheld. It is not usable on it. Wifi disables after each suspend and I’d have to reboot the device to get it back. Also, the screen never recognized by the system, so it’s always black, and all I can do is connect it to my external monitor to get things going. It’s just a brick on Bazzite. I guess I’ll just create the script and call it a day then. Thank you.


  • penquin@lemm.eetoLinux@lemmy.mlImmutable Distro Opinions
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    Yo, mister foobarrington. So, since you’re an expert on these immutables, thought I might ask your help on something. I have a handheld that runs like shit on windows (they all do), and I’ve installed chimera OS on it. It works pretty nicely, but the fan is full blast at all times, so I wanted to install a program called HHD and it’s UI, but this thing is a freaking immutable. I did unlock it with a random command I found online and installed my program via their aur helper called ‘pikaur’. It works now with no issues, but I know that any new update is going to nuke it and I’ll have to redo this whole thing again. How can I make this installed program stick throughout updates. Does distrobox do the trick? Never tried distrobox, so I’m not sure if it allows installation of actual dependencies/drivers that stick through immutable updates. Chimera OS is based on Arch, just to add some context. Thanks

    Edit: oh also, I’m about to experiment with Fedora knt os-tree, on an extra laptop I have, to see if I can make it workout. I do like the idea of a system that won’t break on me easily. And if I miss my AUR, I’ll mess with distrobox. If I like it then I’m moving it to my main machine. Will see.



  • Simple. Just don’t switch to Linux 100%. I’ve used Linux only for about 7 years then there was this game that wouldn’t work on Linux and I really liked that game. So I dualboot now. If you have an extra SSD/Sata in your PC, definitely use that to put Linux on it(to make sure both systems are separated from each other). Once Linux is installed, then install osprober on it and make sure you set your grub timeout to at least 5 seconds. That way both systems show up in grub. Grub is a boat loader for Linux. And the reason why I’m suggesting to separate the two OS’s is because windows always takes over the bootloader when it gets a feature update, and if you have both systems on one drive, it’d be a nightmare to recover your Linux partition. But if you have them separately and windows takes over, it becomes a matter of going into your bios and changing the boot sequence to make the Linux drive primary. Go in there and reinstall osprober/grub and you’re in the game.