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100K Penguins! Bazzite hits 100,000 weekly active devices, growing 14k devices in the past 3 months. (universal-blue.discourse.group)
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[–] 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I just love Bazzite. For daily driving I use another distro, but for my gaming PC below my TV I chose Bazzite and it keeps happily chugging along. I never had any problems, it goes out of my way, never bugs me and does what it needs to do. I honestly never even noticed it updating before (it does though!). I was even able to swap from a NVIDIA GPU to an AMD one and could do the rebase with no issues and minimal knowledge. Steam launches in Big Picture mode and I get the full console experience. And if I feel like mouse and keyboard is needed I can just stream using sunshine to my other PC. It is not that hard, Microsoft.

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    • [–] 26 points 3 weeks ago

    Let a thousand penguins bloom

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    [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Been running Bazzite as my gaming / daily driver since the Win10/11 fiasco. Don't think I'll go back. Sure, I've run into a few small problems, but overall it just works better and more smoothly than Windows. Hell, my controllers work flawlessly on Bazzite while on Win they still struggle to work with certain games consistently.

    Bazzite forever!

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    [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

    Love my Baazite. The immutability is a bit annoying.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Only the main OS image is immutable, but there's distrobox, homebrew, virtual machines (now moved to bazzite-dx, only a rebase away), lots of ways to install stuff in userspace.

    Distroboxes are actually a really good developer workflow (except for system level stuff) once you adapt, install everything needed for a project, develop, archive the environment, all without touching the main OS. Obscure old project with instructions only for Arch, needing old python and CUDA versions, no problem. Super versatile and you never boot to a broken system.

    In a pinch you can also change the image with rpm-ostree install.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Distrobox has been hit or miss for me, the images (mostly the arch ones) sometimes just come out borked right out of the box, but I still second this. I haven't had issues with Bazzite's immutability and I use it on my gaming rig as well as my Framework laptop which I use for work. Whatever makes me feel like its straying from the path of Bazzite, I just throw it into a mint distrobox. I don't even attempt to install it directly into Bazzite unless it's an appImage or a flatpak. As a webdev who handles multiple node versions and multiple codebases at once, I have 0 issues with Bazzite for work.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (3 children)

    I tried it and I wanted to uninstall Steam because I use Lutris and don’t want something proprietary potentially collecting data. I’m sure it’s possible to do, but I couldn’t be bothered because it’d be going against the grain. I like the concept otherwise, especially for a gaming distro. An immutable gaming / HTPC distro with Plsma Bigscreen and no Steam would be the bees knees.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Aurora is what you want. Same family of OS, different flavor. It's what I use for my PC and my wife's laptop.

    https://getaurora.dev/en/

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Thanks, Aurora looks more attractive than Kinoite since it’s more batteries included like Bazzite. As far as Bigscreen, I think that might be possible with rpm-ostree, though my experience with this distro family is limited and not sure how much of a headache that would create.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    In general you want to avoid layering packages if possible. But it's not the end of the world. You can always build your own custom image that updates whenever the base image updates if you need something more customized.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I'm much happier using homebrew and pip to install things. If I absolutely need to modify system files, I'll use rpm-ostree.

    I feel like it's been a good thing that my first instinct isn't to modify system files anymore.

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    • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    What happened in May to cause those weird spikes in multiple distros? And some weird dips near the middle of August.

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    • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I just switched back to Bazzite and moved from Plex to Jellyfin. What an easy setup process.

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    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Thank Jay2Cents for that.

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Good thing the server logo has a penguin on it I didn’t put it together immediately and assumed their user base was full of aquatic birds

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    [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Had some really good experiences with Bazzite. Used it before I switched to Steam OS on my Rog Ally X, but I chose to switch because I felt Steam OS would be better supported

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