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Bazzite gets a new app store, newly supported devices, improved WiFi and more (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Article also mentions this

Fedora 32-bit Libraries

You might have seen some news regarding Fedora wanting to drop 32-bit libraries in the distant future. This is no longer the case as the proposal has been rescinded without a vote.

That's good news I hadn't heard yet. I also noticed the bazaar suddenly appeared yesterday. Now I know why.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

Iirc they came out right away and said more or less of this is the case we just won't do it. Not official but it felt like a dead end

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Do games perform significantly better on this compared to a desktop Ubuntu with a gaming rig?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 9 points 7 hours ago

Out of the box? Probably, as Ubuntu doesn't come with everything you need for gaming, so it doesn't work at all. Once you install all the same packages I imagine it's about the same. Usually a distro isn't doing anything particularly special. It's mostly just a collection of packages, which you can install on any other distro as well.

[–] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Word on the street is that Ubuntu gets updates very slowly. If people want latest and greatest drivers kernels etc then fedora and its spins is the way. Or arch if you are into that sorta thing.

[–] nebulaone@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago

Can someone fork it and rename it Brazzite?

~sorry.~

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Time to update and check it out

[–] zewm@lemmy.world -1 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

Did they fix the horrible performance of Firefox based browsers? That was deal breaker for me. YouTube videos would lag and stutter for 1-2 seconds before playing. Smooth as butter on chrome based browsers. I don’t want to rely on chrome based browsers.

[–] coaxil@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

I yeeted the installed one and just went with the rpm Firefox, works a treat

[–] kewjo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

have been using bazzite for a while now and don't have issues with Firefox, could be tests Google are running. they recently are targeting users of adblockers and artificially setting high load times in hopes users disable them. a decent alternative is freetube (on flathub) which is anonymous so you can't login but you can import playlists and includes ad+sponsor block. they're pretty fast at fixing Google's attempts to break it too, sometimes you might have to change instances to get it working.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

This feels more like a codecs issue tbh. Not a bandwidth problem. It’s more hardware lag if that makes sense.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I just installed and run my browser through a Fedora toolbox (distrobox) and it fixed that problem completely.

I use FreeTube for yt, but that has issues with IP blocks and stuff while using a VPN, but it works if I switch servers once or twice.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Didn’t think of that but too late now. Just nuked and went with Fedora proper.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to Flatpaks, Lemmy's beloved way of distributing packages but the source of your Firefox performance issues.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Dude I read this over like 3 times and can’t make sense of it. You having a stroke or are you good?

[–] kadup@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think you should worry about your own health, it was a super simple sentence to parse.

Bazzite uses Flatpak. Lemmy users love using Flatpaks. Flatpaks are notoriously filled with issues, including Firefox performance.

Let me know if you're good or a drawing is needed.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago

My bad homie. I should have been more aware of your autism. I will try to do better in the future to pick up the signs before commenting.

[–] besmtt@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I personally wouldn't describe it as horrible, but it is good to hear someone else seeing problems with video playback on YT. Just curious though, did you have any add-ons? I do and I need to compare playback without them. Hrmm

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

I did clean installs no addons of zen and librewolf and all of them had the same laggy stutter the first 1-2 seconds a video loads.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I recommend some variant of the h264ify plugin if you're having weird video issues with firefox based browsers.

There's some nonsense going on with some of the codecs Youtube uses + FF... YT used to let you more manually set your codec preferences, now they don't, but the h264ify plugins basically allow you to set those prefs yourself, and by default just disallow the problematic ones.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I just nuked it and went with regular Fedora and it works fine now. It was only a problem on Bazzite.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Huh. Well, glad you found a solution!