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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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[–] 22 points 4 weeks ago

The rise of Bazzite makes me so happy, it's carrying the torch that Steam OS lit.

Hopefully linux makes some significant gains in the future and microslop will be tossed in the trash where it belongs.

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    [–] 13 points 4 weeks ago

    Penguins are cute, no need to hit them!

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    [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

    I live under a rock, what tf is Bazzite?

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    It’s a Linux distro that is gaming focused. Based on Fedora but preloaded with gaming software like emulators and Steam. It’s pretty easy to install and run without knowing anything about Linux so it’s growing in popularity among gamers that don’t like Microslop.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

    I think it's important to point out (for someone familiar, such as everyone on lemmy obviously) that Bazzite is based on the immutable Fedora Silverblue.

    Being immutable makes it apparently stable, but comes with tradeoffs (you are basically limited to flatpaks for installing things, or at least highly discouraged from using other install methods).

    If you want a gaming focused distro that is based on the standard Fedora, I can recommend Nobara. Their default version now uses KDE but I use the Gnome version. I think KDE did something recently to make everyone angry but I can't remember what (AI related maybe?), I use Gnome because I like it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'd add to this that you can install stuff from package repositories, but only if you "layer" it onto your system, which I think slows up boot time, plus you have to re-boot for it.

    Also, I highly recommend getting familiar with Distrobox. It can run even gui apps without issues, and is grate for whenever I need to install more stuff and just want to do the regular dnf install, i.e for dev environments.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    They discourage layering on the packages, as that's how you get conflicts that might break things in future releases.

    I tried to run Bazzite as my daily driver but I just couldn't do it. I probably was not familiar enough with Distrobox, but everything I tried to do had some caveat that meant I couldn't work it out.

    The desktop the kids use runs Bazzite, and I'm pretty close to changing it. Issues with xbox controllers, issues waking from sleep, issues going to sleep to start with. It's barely used outside of the kids playing games and it still has more issues than I do running Nobara as my main.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    How do dependencies work for immutable distros, do you just download them and stick them in a folder with the thing they are a dependency for to run it, for everything? At least if it doesn't have a flatpak version already which IIRC basically does that for you?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    For the most part, something either comes with the system or you install it as a flatpak. Or as someone else mentioned, run in Distrobox.

    Therre's actually a Bazzite help page on this: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/software-intro/

    The very last resort is that you can install packages sort of as normal, by layering them in rpm-ostree, then rebooting to rebuild things. It's discouraged though, as if you manually install packages then it can break updates and upgrades take longer to run. Basically, installing packages manually is defeating the purpose of an immutable system (the purpose being basically to keep things super stable).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Homebrew is the first go-to for software. Distrobox for more heavy-duty things.

    There's also ujust which has a handful of things made specifically for Bazzite. And AppImages work just like on any other distro.

    The only thing that's really discouraged is rpm-ostree. That's a last resort, and almost never necessary.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    I think KDE did something recently to make everyone angry but I can’t remember what (AI related maybe?)

    Partly true. Somebody talked about the idea of KDE Plasma becoming an "AI-native" desktop at Akademy (the KDE conference), and the discussion (which, as far as I'm aware, was all it was. I'm pretty sure it was just some guy, not the KDE team), and the media overblew it with headlines like "KDE Plasma becoming an AI-native desktop???"

    There are good reasons to dislike KDE Plasma, but I don't think this is one of them. If you prefer GNOME because you prefer how it looks, that's cool too! And again, it's made by developers who do it at no cost to us, and the fact that Plasma is so good (as is GNOME, Cinnamon, etc.) is awesome

    edit: The people who talked about Plasma as an "AI native" desktop in Akademy used to be KDE developers but are no longer active contributors. It was not the KDE team saying "this is what we will do in the future". There's a good video about it by Nicco (a KDE dev who makes videos regarding Linux and other bits) if you want to learn more: https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/b97487b5-b544-4652-8548-c0a732f87f45

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago

    It's kinda like SteamOS, but not. Not managed by Valve, a little more cutting edge, a hair more performant, a hair more customizable, but also immutable, and also very gaming-focused. Comes in flavours for handheld PCs, regular desktop, or home theater gaming PCs, KDE or Gnome, and supports AMD or Nvidia.

    Like SteamOS, it's immutable, very beginner-friendly, while also being very open and modifiable like any Linux distro. A strong recommendation for any gamer who's sick of Windows, so it's seen amazing growth.

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    • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    So they have analytics enabled or what. How they know they have 100k weekly active devices

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    • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Bazzite seems cool. Used it to set up a game station machine at my workplace and it runs great. My only complaint (and it is tiny, and was quickly fixed by an alias) is the 'rpm-ostree'. For some reason that name is super unintuitive and hard to remember for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    I think rpm-ostree has origins from Fedora, or to be precise CoreOS. I'd also say when it comes to atomic/immutable, and even if you're a power user, using it should probably be down to a minimum. I've been on Bluefin for almost a year now and I can't recall using it once.

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    • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Aside from Fortnite (family time), Total War Warhammer 3, and Wardogs, I've transitioned from Windows to living in Bazzite.

    I feel greasy whenever I have to swap back to Windows and I stay there as little as i need to.

    Give it a shot, its relatively intuitive and Linux gaming has never been better thanks to Steam and Proton.

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