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[–] valter@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. I'm a software dev and I also have a ton of weird and niche hobbies I use my PC for and I've never run into anything I felt like Bazzite prevented me from doing. Even if they didn't offer the super convenient developer edition.

For example, the immutable root partition doesn't stop me from adding udev rules in /etc.

In fact, DistroBox gives me the freedom to use any package from any distro I want, including the Arch AUR.

Anyone who says Bazzite is "too limiting" doesn't understand how it actually works.

I love distrobox.