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Only the kernel module is open source, and it's just a wrapper for closed source blobs.

In actuality the open source drivers just kill all support for the 10 series, and otherwise do nothing to fix Nvidia's utterly fucked up driver problems.

Bazzite lead developer here, we actually never used the flatpak. Our first release had it installed in a distrobox container on the desktop images. Deck images always had RPM Steam because Steam is essentially functioning as a desktop environment there. We moved them both to be RPM for support consistency reasons.

The very first release was actually a steam deck release, the desktop release came later.

Your use case works

Those we leave alone, they're really only meant as a base for other images anyway.

Not being able to relayer it is a good thing in this case, you don't want the browser to have any limits on when it can update.

If you need something other than the flatpak, I would recommend installing it in a Fedora distrobox and exporting it.

We (ublue) remove Firefox and install the flatpak because you want your browser to update when it needs to update, and not only when your OS image updates.

We're aware of it, it's just complicated and directly related to kernel differences between Valve's heavily modified 6.1 and Fedora's 6.6/soon to be 6.7

This release lays the groundwork since it's the first one with a fully custom kernel. In addition updates will be coming faster for the foreseeable future. A lot was held back due to us working on maintaining secure boot support when switching kernels.

Only missing feature compared to SteamOS 3.6 is HDR, we're waiting for Fedora to land it in stable rather than port all of that from SteamOS.

And then of course there's a ton of features we add that SteamOS doesn't have. We build from stable Fedora and keep our patches minimal so the intent is for Bazzite to be as stable.

Preview of the next release, need to fix an issue with Xbox controller detection and then we'll add it to the Bazzite Portal for anyone to easily use.

And yes, the SteamOS keyboard works!

Should support both, but there's an upstream kernel bug at the moment that can cause certain RDNA GPUs to lock at the lowest clock speed at certain resolutions and refresh rates. Just something to look out for

Screenshots are on the GitHub, https://bazzite.gg/

There's a KDE and GNOME version, the deck release has gamemode and Valve's KDE themes/similar themes for GNOME. It's functionally identical.

The installer will even offer to set up EmuDeck and Decky Loader for you.

Hopefully won't be a very long wait for that, red hat is really pushing for HDR right now.