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Evaluation question (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/bazzite@lemmy.world
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I currently use Ultramarine KDE Plasma, which is a very nicely configured Fedora 43 based distro.

I'm evaluating switching to Bazzite. Simple test: Try to add my wireless Canon printer - works. Try to add my wireless Canon scanner - oops! No scanner software.

Normally I would sudo dnf in skanlite and continue with my day.

On Bazzite, I'm guessing I will sudo rpm-ostree install skanlite ?

But wait, doesn't this involve the dreaded - dun duh daaa - 'layering'? Have I just ruined the precious immutability??

Is it generally OK to add in fedora packages or not??

Confused ...

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Doing anything with rpm-ostree is considered a last resort.

Ideally there's a flatpak you can grab, (there is). If not, then you're supposed to run it in a distrobox and export the app.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Thank you very much Botzo. I finally wrapped my head around this. Flatpak first, then spin up a container of an operating system for one lousy app and only use ostree as last resort. I had it backwards after decades of doing it the other way lol.

    Take a look at the difference in resource usage would you:

    Skanlite Rpm installed size - 3mb

    Skanlite Flatpak installed size - 16mb (plus Flatpak run time files etc)

    Not even gonna guess how much a container of Fedora 43 in Distrobox just for one 3mb application is going to consume lol.

    For me, the voracious storage consumption is something to stop and consider ...

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