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Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

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[–] [S] 19 points 11 months ago* (9 children)

its closest to nixos in functionality, but basically its just a very simple distro that doesnt require much work to maintain and comes with lots of useful premade scripts and configurations for gaming and making immutables easy to work with. if thats what youre looking for thats what its good for.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Can I setup docker containers on it?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you're installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.

    I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I'd had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.

    To me that's impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    podman works well, docker is a little finicky due to some systemd weirdness and the whole immutability of it all.

    it mainly tries to get you to use distroboxes which are awesome. you can even install something in a distrobox and expose it to the host.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Are distroboxes, podman, and docker all names for the same type of program? I'll have to start researching the ones you mentioned and see if it fits what I'm doing.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    they're all containerization programs yes. I believe they differ in some minor details but thanks to the OCI standards a image built with docker will run in podman or vice versa.

    distrobox is a little more feature rich for development, meant for exposing services and are interactive by default, vs dockers run and forget methodology.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Distrobox is more like running an entire other Linux distro to run your program, so like before my laptop died completely I had Bazzite and needed to install something locally that was way easier to do in an Ubuntu Distrobox, any time I wanted to run that program I open up my distrobox and run it, felt very native and the app and its files were still in my normal home directory yet ran with dependencies and such I had in the distrobox only.

    Definitely nifty but different from the goal of podman/docker imo

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