Idk what wm/de you're using, but disabling gpu acceleration in steam fixed this for me in hyprland

Bazzite was my first attempt at really daily driving Linux. I ended up on Aurora dev and I don't have any reasons to move to something different.

The U-Blue OSs really feel like the future to me.

Incredibly cool tech, but it just works.

I (want to) like Ublue distros but for some reason i can't get drag and drop in flatpak firefox and Thunderbird to work, how do you deal with this, if you don't mind the stupid question :D

Bluefin-dx user here. This is the way.

NixOS would be ideal for a purely testing, if I were setting a test bench I would definitely use Nix. BUT they also need to use something that people watching might be willing/able to use, and Nix has a very steep learning curve.

If I understand correctly, it's a different kind of "immutable", since distros like Bazzite provide premade immutable images you use and anything else you need you install using alternative means, whereas NixOS is an immutable image generator that requires you to set up your own definitions for the image, but also lets you install software by adding it to that image.

lol the truth comes out. I just wanna stay as close to Windows as would be comfortable without Microsoft's telemetry, personally ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I ran Arch for about a year and a half. It's great, you get the freedom to do anything you want provided you have the time and will to learn. Bazzite is the exact opposite: you can't do everything you might want, but you don't need to learn anything, you can carelessly play around in the little playground they setup for you.

I use Bazzite on my 2 desktop PCs, Aurora on my work laptop booting from an external 1tb nvme ssd via an usb-C m2 caddy.

It's pure bliss. I freaking love it. If Ublue ever disappears I'm fucked.

Yep totally

Please don't make me sub to LTT 😅

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Indeed. Took me 20min from starting install to having my first game on Steam. Best experience ever. Never looked back.

I've been using linux since the late 90s. I've tried all major distributions. My gaming rig runs bazzite, and nothing else comes even close in out-of-the box experience.

You may find it hard to believe but that doesnt mean you are right. Most ditros are quite easy to set up. Ubuntu and Mint are both already modified Debian. Why not some other modified one? A distro modified to game is already set up for gaming.

You could try it, it might change your mind. It did for me, I switched after a decade on Fedora.

I disagree sort of. I find it hard to believe a new distro is easier to set up than mint or Ubuntu

Mint is easier to setup than Ubuntu, and not only it's newer, it's based on Ubuntu. Ubuntu also is easier to setup than Debian even though it's newer and based on it. Being a new distro has nothing to do with being easy to setup.

Bazzite is special because it's an immutable distro, so it's highly unlikely you'll break stuff by poking around.

What also makes me sus is that if influencers are promoting lesser-known distros, it might be paid. Which is fine but could mean plans to monetize that distro in the future.

As opposed to Cannonical, which has been making slow pushes over the years to control Linux via Snaps?

but in this case, actually, I proposed it bc i've seen synthetic tests that compared this distro to others, and it yielded interesting results, so i actually wonder about what the results would be in the gaming context, as the testing specific varies greatly.

in other words

I'M THE NERDEST NERD, AND THOSE NERDS AREN'T NERDING THEIR NERDY STUFF ENOUGH

or... something like that

i guess it's my new version of archbtw

i just find this distro to be genuinely worth everybody's try, as it's easy to set up, and it comes with custom-built packages (they mostly just add some comptime flags), that favor optimisation for the modern hardware over backward compatibility.

Ah, the RTFM argument. So you didn't go to school, did you? You picked up a book and just started educating yourself?

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If what you've chosen to learn could help someone right in front of you, and they're asking for help, you do not feel compelled to help them? I doubt that.