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Bazzite/any immutable distro question: every user duplicates app installs

Just installed Bazzite and it seems to work well so far.

Then I added a second standard user to the system and thought they'd have access to all software I just installed for the main user. But that doesn't seem the case, Bazzite prompted me to install all those again for the second user.

Is that just a thing with immutable distros or did I do this in a wrong way? I tried looking this question up, but I couldn't find any info on multi user setups with immutable distros.

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  • This should add the flathub remote to the system and then install all the existing user packages into the system level. Then removes all the user level packages.

    flatpak --system remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
    flatpak --system install $(flatpak list --columns=application)
    flatpak --user remove $(flatpak list --columns=application)
    

    Personally I would just pick all the ones you'd like to be global (system level) and leave the rest at the user level.

    • Woah, thanks for that. Didn't have time yet to look into it and this is quite helpful!

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