[freedomben]

Glad to see this finally up here. I posted it a couple weeks ago and was shocked that I hadn't heard of it sooner. I expected it to rocket to the top, but instead it just languished (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38642298).

I've been blown away by Bazzite. I haven't yet (so far at least) run into any downsides of being on Bazzite instead of SteamOS, yet have had numerous upsides. I've wanted my Decks to be on my tailnet for a long time, but that was not an easy proposition. There's numerous packages that don't flatpak well that I've wanted to install into my base OS but haven't been able to until now! An example, I use Remote Play to run the games on my beastly desktop while viewing them on my TV. Something I routinely do is SSH into the host machine and run htop in one tmux pane and nvtop (for my AMD card, yes it works great with AMD now!) in another pane. To me this feels like the difference between driving with a speedometer and tachometer vs. driving without. Such a simple thing, so hard to do with Steam OS, yet so easy with Bazzite.

[ParetoOptimal]

I also have my steam deck on my tailnet via `services.tailscale.enable = true` on NixOS.

I might have to do a comparison of NixOS and bazzite since bazzite has me curious.

[Cloudef]

Here is my "steamdeck os" https://github.com/Cloudef/nixos-flake/blob/master/modules/s...

[bsimpson]

extest is in a nixpkgs PR and SteamOS is packaged by Jovian. Any reason you're doing it all manually?

[sweeter]

JovianOS is also similar to Bazzite, ChimeraOS and SteamOS but its based on Nix.

[otikik]

I can’t find anything online about this one (Jovian). Do you have a link at hand? Happy new year!

[KyleGospo]

https://github.com/Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS

[bsimpson]

I wasn't sure whether to start with Bazzite or Jovian (NixOS), but I started with Jovian and haven't looked back.

I'd be curious to know what you find.