Yup! I've been running Linux on my machines in some way or another for 20 years. I've worked as a systems administrator and in ops teams. So I'm not a Linux beginner, and I'm not afraid of a shell.

But I play steam games online with friends. I had a Windows 10 PC in my house specifically to be the gaming PC, I would turn it on, play a game, then turn it off. I didn't do anything else with the machine, but when I was running it I wasn't at work, I wasn't tinkering, I was relaxing.

So anyway Microsoft botched Windows 11, big surprise, and people were talking about the Linux gaming revolution, and I was like "Hot Damn, if there's a Linux gaming revolution I want to be part of it!", so I installed Bazzite and... yup. I'm part of it.

I haven't had a single issue since, at least with my machine and the games my friends play. I've been able to basically treat the system like it's a console. I boot it, navigate it with a controller, then I turn it off. Delightful!

So thanks to everyone involved in making it a great experience!

I daily drive bazzite

I just treat it like an atomic distro that happens to be good for gaming

I use it for development and other general use cases

I can use disposable distroboxes without worrying about updating or breaking my base system it's nice

Exactly. I do the same thing.

I even put bazzite with KDE on my mothers computer because she started complaining about windows being slow and seeing ads on her start menu. My mother isn't very tech saavy, but bazzite was perfect for her use case and it just works. So far no complaints at all in about 6 months.

Easy setup to be a HTPC with (usually) no fuss. Gaming focused to be a Steam Machine before the Steam Machine. I'm definitely looking at an immutable distro for my HTPC when I get around/afford to building one. I'm still hopeful that content providers will make native interfaces for both Steam Big Picture and KDE Plasma Big Screen.

It's a fedora atomic distro. I like the isolation of apps and it being "almost impossible to break", and I want to give a serious try to what looks like the future of OSs.

I tend to fiddle with the OS a lot, and this isolation limits me to flatpak and distrobox. It is a big limitation, but is perfect if you want to have a reproducible, isolated environments to develop code, but installing a system package is just too easy. Basically you need to spend time and know what you are doing to workaround this isolation, which makes sense to me.

Bazzite tweaks everything to be gaming-focused (it also ships with steam preinstalled, for example). The other fedora atomics (silverblue/kinoite) are just more "generic" and not gaming-focused compared to bazzite, but they have a similar setup. I think bazzite just customizes them.

You can also switch your entire system between them, with just a CLI command, with the ability to rollback too. So once you are in an atomic distro, you can switch without too much pain (in theory, at least).

I really want to make it or fedora kinoite my main distro at some point

If you plan on gaming on atomic Fedora it is basically just that with everything already preconfigured. I chose it because it came with Nvidia drivers, codecs, a bunch of tweaks and gaming utilities preinstalled (protonqt, distrobox, lutris, etc)

You could install all of this on Fedora but IMO it's convenient to just have everything already configured for you if you were going to do it anyways

I also like that it is atomic. Builds on the same image tag guarantee an identical build, which completely fixes the "works on my machine" problem when helping my friends. Two users on the same release will never have mismatched shared libraries or rogue packages, everyone on the same tag has the exact same environment. Plus, it makes rolling back bad upgrades incredibly easy

Because if I want to game I dont want to troubleshoot. Bazzite just works and updates itself. I got other machines for experementing

Codecs, the avarage user doesn't know what they are, let alone figure out how to install them on fedora

If you try it you will understand how simple and amazing it is.

I see this as an absolute win! That’s more devices than people who’ve played assassin’s creed black flag resynced in the last 24 hours. That’s a sizable install base.

Does feel small, but I would say bordering on 100k is nothing to scoff at. This is an incremental battle, as seen from Valve's approach. Progressively chipping at it and you've suddenly cleared the major hurdles. I personally think Linux is ready now for a majority of users, so it's exciting times.