Hi all,

I’m very much a Linux newbie. I originally read that Nobara was great for gaming (and it is) but I’ve read even better things about Bazzite and want to give it a whirl.

My question is, am I able to download it to a usb and just do a clean install without issues or do I have to do anything beforehand. I originally installed Nobara using btrfs if that makes any difference.

Like I said I’m really new at this, hopefully it’s ok to post this here but if not please let me know where would be more appropriate.

    • BlackArtist@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s the thing that has me worried, deleting partitions. A long time ago (15 years or so) I deleted a partition in windows and it really messed everything up, that’s what has made me question whether it is a simple case of just running the Bazzite installer and it holding my hand all the way.

      I’m planning on doing it next weekend as this weekend just became busy. No doubt I’ll be back here asking more questions.

      Thanks to everyone who has responded so far it’s been very helpful.

    • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      The partition manager should be KDE Partition Manager on the KDE Bazzite, and Disks on the GNOME Bazzite (I don’t think GParted is installed by default)

  • macniel@feddit.de
    41·
    1 year ago

    Keep in mind that Bazzite runs an entirely different approach as Nobara, as it is immutable. You won’t be able to use yum/dnf to manage packages and flatpak is the preferred way to add software. To add systemwide new packages/applications you need to use rpm-ostree instead of yum/dnf.

    • BlackArtist@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Good to know. I use flatpak in Nobara atm too. My main concern with being totally new to this would be not being able to install Bazzite over Nobara. It’s a steep learning curve for me but I do enjoy things like that.

      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        4·
        1 year ago

        Another thing to note, it seems that immutable is the future of linux. The Fedora project roadmaps the Atomic desktop taking over the traditional Workstation. OpenSUSE also looks to be moving to it as the default in Leap 16. Being new to the ecosystem might be advantageous because you don’t have the old habits.

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Flash a USB, install the same way you did before: by using the whole disk and thus erasing whatever was in it before.

    Have fun! Bazzite is probably the best gaming distro out there.