What does it mean by AMD support is unclear? You just need mesa which is included by default in most distros. Which is clearly included since it supports the SteamDeck.
If its based on Fedora 38 then for AMD HW everything should run fine out of the box
This is usually an oversight by people who might not have deep linux technical knowledge. I left a polite reply to let them know that AMD is good to go.
What's the advantage of this over running something like Nobara and booting into big picture mode? Considering Nobara is fedora and maintained by a Red Hat engineer, I would probably prefer that over something made by someone else.
Id say theres two components. Stramdecks UI has a bunch of extra tweaks that aren’t available in the regular BPM like TDP, FSR controls or even proton badges. They’re also designed to require the least amount of kb and mouse input so you could have a living room PC thats just boot and play with a controller or something like the ROG ally running “steam OS”.
I tried chimera OS (basically the same as this) for a cloud gaming VM i could connect to with a logitech gcloud and it seems promising, but needs some work still.
If Red Hat engineers are your measure of success then at least three of them have contributed directly to Universal Blue. Including the Nvidia support, upstream development of ostree, and tons of great support from the CoreOS community (like [@siosm](https://floss.social/@siosm))
All this stuff is new Fedora tech that's being deployed in the cloud, they've designed it in such a way that gives the end user a clear view of exactly what's being built. You can inspect each of our changes and what is cool is when you organize a community around it. It makes it very easy for us to scale quickly to get people what they want but in a reliable image-based way.
Kyle and Co. have been working with the folks at Nobara and ChimeraOS and there's a ton of sharing going on, so either way you win. Also check out the COPRs that bazzite maintains, you can totally try them out on your system.
For the other long term concerns check out https://universal-blue.org to check out our mission statements, vision, and information. We're just about to land our open source governance which should shed some light on how we intend to be a sustainable long term project.
Silverblue/Kinoite maintainer here. I really like Universal Blue. We're doing as much as we can in Fedora upstream and then the folks there complete the experience for driver support, extra packages and codecs that we can't include in Fedora for legal reasons.
That's a good question. I couldn't really find any rationale or clear list of differences, I guess except for defaulting to the SteamOS themes?
That's pretty cool but sounds like us noobs need to wait for a better installer. Too bad Valve hasn't been able to release SteamOS 3 for PCs, I think I would be on Linux if it was out.
Maybe want to consider Nobara. I've been using it on my desktop and it runs my Steam library very well. Currently playing Baldurs Gate 3.
I have used ublue os before it started to gain popularity. It's basically fedora silvervlue with different desktops made available.
It's pretty good for an immutable system and worth checking out.