don’t tell me, tell OP! I was just trying to read in their documentation how you connect a bluetooth keyboard. i did find a lot of posts from people having many problems with keyboards and controllers. it could be that either the kb model is not compatible or there is some issue with the bluetooth controller in this beginner friendly distro, that is not a distro in the traditional sense! (their words, not mine)

I keep reading their documentation and wow oh wow! This is from their FAQ:

Is this another fringe Linux distribution?¶

Bazzite is not a Linux distribution in the traditional sense. Yes, it is a Linux operating system that is distributed for the public to use however it is a custom Fedora Atomic Desktop image with a recipe on top of it. Universal Blue images are a proof of concept of using containerized workflows with transactional and in-place operating system updates, and Bazzite exists by being gaming focused with inspiration from SteamOS. Bazzite is a Fedora Atomic Desktop installation, but with the aid of Universal Blue's tooling, adds packages, services, drivers, etc. to the base image of it. Bazzite is using a new "container-native" approach that Fedora has been testing, and we are taking full advantage of it. The team is utilizing the Open Container Initiative (OCI) to build the images, and are adding packages, services, and kernel modules to existing Fedora operating systems.

Unlike traditional Linux distributions, most of the maintenance and security updates are done upstream by Fedora and Universal Blue contributors while the primary Bazzite maintainers only have to focus on creating a great experience for an OS geared towards playing video games. Bazzite provides several images that all get the same additions and fixes through updates at the same time unless specified otherwise. There can be a hypothetical scenario where everyone involved with Bazzite could stop maintaining the project at once and it will still continue to receive updates directly from upstream until the scheduled builds are broken.

The purpose of Bazzite is to be Fedora Linux, but provide a great gaming experience out of the box while also being an alternative operating system for the Steam Deck and other handheld devices.

This screams beginner distro to me!

the most immediate one i’d say is how to connect the keyboard… there could be others too. don’t know. i tried to look for bluetooth on their documentation but they have no mention of the word.

Wow

But is this any different than what is happening here with a supposedly beginner friendly gaming distro?

Endeavour is explicitly not for new users

There is no such thing man. It just works really. But I am not trying to sell this distro, just saying that an immutable distro for a beginner is much more of a black box than any of the “advanced” distros people are afraid of. sure if you are luck and everything works with the immutable, awesome. if it doesn’t? then you need the “advanced” stuff anyway. and by that I mean read some documentation.

ok OP what model keyboard do you have? maybe I should have started with this.

my point i was trying to make is: these days if you want to use linux and game, just install a “normal” distro without fear of what you read online. 99% of the stuff about arch based distros (except for maybe arch itself, i don’t have experience with pure arch) is simply fearmongering. stuff just works. Want to connect a mouse? Done. Keyboard? No problem. Same can be said about distros like mint and such. I wouldn’t bother with ubuntu these days.

i keep seeing so many comments about stuff that breaks and doesn’t work in linux but this is just not the case! unless you break it. in windows stuff would work, or not depending on how old the equipment was. there wasn’t much you could do about it. in linux you have options provided you don’t jump feet first into an immutable distro intended mostly for gaming.

my extra point is: ditch bazite and switch to a saner distro!

Don’t know man, my two cents are to go with a distro that has good established documentation. Also if you want to learn you have to break your system. You are probably right, I had a different path ending up with endeavor.

Also, if op managed to get the Bluetooth mouse going there is no reason why his Bluetooth keyboard is not working.

How did you connect the mouse? Do same think for kb.

Also for the life of me I don’t get how beginners like you decide to go with these kinds of distros. I for one never heard of it but I also don’t game.

I use endeavor with kde on my laptop and it just works.

Given how highly adaptable Americans are I am very surprised to not seeing more of you trying to make a life for yourself in Europe. A plane ticket to any eu country is far cheaper than an ambulance ride to er…

How much more polish you need to watch a movie? Jellyfin has everything you need. I keep seeing these discussions and for the life of me I cannot figure out what is missing from jellyfin that people use Plex after all they have been doing for years

Does this work for units that don’t have anything smart in them? I have 3 units 200 something without any sensors, Bluetooth or wifi connection

I have 3 imou dahua chinesium wifi cameras which are working nicely. They would be even better if I could get some cable to them. I think the most important aspect is the onvif protocol, then the encoding should be standard h264 no other bullshit, then cable if possible.

I love frigate so much!

Is there a European equivalent? At the moment I only do ddns with them and they are my registrar but don’t use the tunnela

I am using this and it works well: https://geekworm.com/products/pikvm-a3?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=e3dd7e750&pr_rec_pid=7163618558040&pr_ref_pid=8361776218425&pr_seq=uniform

They have many other options too.

But does open cloud have its own auth system? I have been using the next loud auth with the two factor authentication and it has worked fine so far.

Sound good. I’ll start testing soon

The nextcloud android app I use it to get a file off the server but not much more. Are you saying that the opencloud app can’t even be used for that at the moment?

shit i think what happened is I read about that announcement and got excited and then started hunting for that opendesk and somehow landed on opencloud. now i am even more confuse because opendesk seems to be more compatible with nextcloud but opencloud seems faster. i have to keep digging and run some tests this weekend

I only heard about open loud when the European criminal court made a. Announcement that they will drop Ms office 365 for this opencloud and I got excited. Makes me wonder why they didn’t go for next loud if it is European too?