I am too much of a tinkerer for Bazzite, but it’s still the distro I recommend the most for new users. If they decide they need more freedom, then Fedora KDE is the next step I recommend.

Most Windows expats should be completely happy with Bazzite.

Absolutely. I switched to Bazzite and it is everything I wanted from the switch. So painless. I have yet to find a game I want to play that wont play. Ive been using it for all my normal computer tasks. Its been the best transition to linux I’ve experienced as ive tried in the past but always hit some sort of snag

It might be beginner friendly, but it doesn't mean you can't do pretty much anything else you'd want to do on any other distro. It's just a different process.

I've been using it for 3mo now. Mostly no issues, except for installing packages without flatpak, and also the weird random slowdown to freeze (I'm assuming memory management?) I mostly use my machine for learning freecad, watxhing jellyfin, using a browser, and playing Genshin (relaxing to play while people bitch at me on my phone job)

Microsoft doesn't actually care because most of their revenue is from corporate environments tied to the OS and their cloud offerings. Everyday users are nothing to them, which is why they don't try harder to keep you from using unactivated copies of windows. You are nothing

5k users down 999,995k left to go!

5k in 2 months isn’t a lot.

I think it may be dawning on them. I'm on an international holiday & didn't get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I'd looked I'm sure ESU was for businesses only.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

The bit that made me laugh was: "ESU enrollment does not provide other types of fixes, feature improvements, or product enhancements." Phew!

I'll crack on with upgrading to Linux when I get home, nice little winter project.

I think its hitting a critical mass, that much upward growth is very encouraging to see. I was able to convince a handful of friends to switch to linux due to windows getting so bad, they liked the extremely simple approach Bazzite has. I think its better than Mint in this regard, Fedora has come such a long way.

Bazzite cured my desire to distro hunt ever again

You run Jellyfin on your main computer? It's a lot easier to deal with it elsewhere, unless you are running docker locally.

Bazzite is an awesome gaming machine but I def find it annoying for other stuff sometimes. I should probably install a separate distribution for everything else but I don’t want to flip between two.

It's too bad that we're holding a gun to your head to make you switch. 😔🔫

Steam installs proton on its own when you just click the button insettings so you don't even need to install proton. Just works

I'm a long-time Mint guy, my current desktop is Fedora KDE because Wayland, and I'm looking at Bazzite for my old computer/HTPC but it doesn't support my old GTX-1080 GPU, I might get a low-tier Radeon for it (I don't want to buy an Intel card and fuck Nvidia's butt, that GTX-1080 was literally the only GPU available to me in 2020).

If anyone likes Bazzite but doesn't want the immutability, Garuda is also gamer focused and easy.

i'd think 30k is a lot for a 2-year-old OS, but i know very little

I too was surprise to read the actual number being so low considering how much it's talked about. I never really saw the appeal as steam is pretty easy to get set up and running on any mainstream Linux distro with little fuss, but I recognize it was set up for newbies who want an gaming ready experience. It's an interesting project regardless.

If you're on a Gigabyte mobo openRGB may not work at all.

For all intents and purposes it is Steam OS.

They are different. If I could run steamos I’d probably run that. But on my hardware Bazzite is the best of the compatible options.

Yes

Yu could just... stop playing League.

Yeah vanguard fucked up linux compatibility...

Same, I'm not gaming, but this distro for me that I find just working. I used Aurora for a bit before making the switch.

Do you know whats the difference between aurora and bazzite? Its from the same team and looks a bit similiar so I am a bit confused about it