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I had a bad time getting Bazzite working and ended up switching to CachyOS, which I have been happy with.
They both worked fine for me, but installing almost everything through yay on CachyOS instead of having to deal these on bazzite (link below) was a huge QoL change for me. That and the sheer amount of documentation for arch is just awesome.
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/
To me, this was a mess and was convoluted. It helped me learn a ton, but if you want simple and need more than just gaming on steam, it's not worth it imo.
Yeah, I probably gave Bazzite less of a chance because I had so many issues installing it. I believe I had to wipe my other Linux partition to get it installed in the end.
You can just install through yay on distrobox on bazzite. Again, laziest distro ever just copy paste whatever the devs give you for install on an appropriate distrobox. No need to worry about what distro you're running.
Idk that installing a different OS to install software is better than installing another os to install software. I feel like that would just be keeping up with updates on two or more separate OSs, but with that said, I've never used it aside from just goofing around a little trying to get some theming stuff to work, which did not.
To each their own though, would be a great solution for someone that doesn't want to uninstall their current system because they've sunk time into it or other reasons.
Distrobox has very little overhead and runs the app as natively as possible, last I checked my overhead was like 50mb of ram. It's kinda like WINE but for distros.