I have a spare SSD (messing with which was the subject of my aforementioned FAFO), so I’m not opposed to trying new things. I’ve also heard about layering and ostree before, but never taken the time to understand them in depth. Maybe when I’ve next got some time off, I’ll spend a day or three toying around with it. It’s been a while since my last distro hop (currently using Nobara, so Fedora isn’t entirely new ground to me).
If I did want to mount something at boot in the manner of fstab – putting aside the “why”, this is just technical curiosity – what would be the idiomatic way to achieve that?
I just use the KDE partition manager. I haven’t had to mess with mounting anything via command line once since installing Bazzite, so I’m not sure if there’s another way to edit fstab (there usually is, it’s just recommended against unless you have no other options).
Yeah, if you’re familiar with Nobara/Fedora, then you already have a leg up. Bazzite is based on, I believe, Kinoite. It is just optimized for gaming, and it includes a ton of ujust “recipes” (pre-made scripts basically) to add/remove gaming-related functions, among other things. For example, I just type “ujust update” into the terminal and it updates everything, including firmware, flatpaks, local packages, etc.
It just works. It’s very beginner friendly, but don’t let that turn you off. There’s a lot you can do, you just need to do it a different way than you’re used to.
Edit: I just saw you said “at boot.” As I said, I don’t know beyond the gui partition manager… I’m sure there is a way, because it must be a relatively common thing that people run into.
Side note, if you’re troubleshooting, or looking for info on Bazzite and can’t find what you’re looking for, try searching for “silverblue” instead as it’s very similar.
I imagine the partition manager requires sudo permissions though? I generally keep my admin account separate from my normal working/gaming accounts, both for security and also to put another hurdle between myself and dumb decisions.
I have a spare SSD (messing with which was the subject of my aforementioned FAFO), so I’m not opposed to trying new things. I’ve also heard about layering and ostree before, but never taken the time to understand them in depth. Maybe when I’ve next got some time off, I’ll spend a day or three toying around with it. It’s been a while since my last distro hop (currently using Nobara, so Fedora isn’t entirely new ground to me).
If I did want to mount something at boot in the manner of fstab – putting aside the “why”, this is just technical curiosity – what would be the idiomatic way to achieve that?
I just use the KDE partition manager. I haven’t had to mess with mounting anything via command line once since installing Bazzite, so I’m not sure if there’s another way to edit fstab (there usually is, it’s just recommended against unless you have no other options).
Yeah, if you’re familiar with Nobara/Fedora, then you already have a leg up. Bazzite is based on, I believe, Kinoite. It is just optimized for gaming, and it includes a ton of ujust “recipes” (pre-made scripts basically) to add/remove gaming-related functions, among other things. For example, I just type “ujust update” into the terminal and it updates everything, including firmware, flatpaks, local packages, etc.
It just works. It’s very beginner friendly, but don’t let that turn you off. There’s a lot you can do, you just need to do it a different way than you’re used to.
Edit: I just saw you said “at boot.” As I said, I don’t know beyond the gui partition manager… I’m sure there is a way, because it must be a relatively common thing that people run into.
Side note, if you’re troubleshooting, or looking for info on Bazzite and can’t find what you’re looking for, try searching for “silverblue” instead as it’s very similar.
I imagine the partition manager requires sudo permissions though? I generally keep my admin account separate from my normal working/gaming accounts, both for security and also to put another hurdle between myself and dumb decisions.
Oh yeah you still use sudo… I’m probably doing a really bad job at explaining this lol
You do still have admin priviliges for everything else, it’s just your OS partition that is locked down.