I decided to abandon Windows on my desktop this year. After some searching I ended up with @bazzite After being a Debian user (server and vm) for a while it’s taken some time to adjust. But I will stick with it to the end of 2026.

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[–] 11 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Bazzite has been the most plug and play distro I've ever used!

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Its a bit tricky if you have never used an immutable distro and are adding packages but otherwise its rock solid. I have been very happy with it.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm relatively a Linux newbie and "open app store and click install" couldn't have been more user friendly to me, so I'm very excited by it all

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Flatpak with Flathub as a source is fantastic for a lot of things. It's the more specialty stuff like I install clevis to use network bound disk encryption. It isn't difficult, it's just rpm-ostree install and a reboot instead of dnf install. Other things you can usually install in a distrobox and keep your host OS clean.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Be careful with rpm-ostree install as you can get into situations where some packages will block upgrades. But, once you get the hang of distrobox its pretty easy to install them in there - in whatever flavour of linux you want - and then expose them to the bazzite side.

    I've got a handful of weird apps for odd hardware type things that the flatpak side just couldn't handle so learning distrobox has been an absolute boon.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I've just started using Bazzite myself. Years ago I used Ubuntu but have been stuck with windows for quite some time. After a few teething problems it's starting to look very positive. Am especially grateful for the "ujust" command that someone showed me just now. Will definitely stick with it for at least 2026 as you said.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I have been using bazzite for over 2 years now, and am quite happy with it. My biggest gripe is that the keyring app (using gnome) is wildly unreliable.

    I had a system freeze at some point, and since then it is unable to store/provide any stored passwords or login data. Each time an application wants to store or retrieve some it asks to create a new keyring, while never allowing apps to retrieve existing information. I actually had this happen before, forcing me to reinstall, but sadly since that one crash it is back to being broken, and i just cant if it is just going to break again.

    Well, that is my gripe and also that i cant seem to wrap my head around getting niche Windows programs to run. Some i can do through steam and a tutorial, but neither lutris nor bottles has ever allowed me to run things such as older game editors or game server software that was not integrated with the steam game. I'm sure it is possible, so i must be doing something wrong.

    Guess this went a little off the rails, sorry about that 🫠

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