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Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’d love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.

Why?

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To spread the love, basically.

[–] j0rge@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Bluefin comaintainer here. The metrics are flathub and app developer donations, not the base image. You spread the love when you install a flatpak or buy a linux game and make those numbers go up.

The idea that the base OS is important isn't a thing, the only way to fix the economics of the linux desktop is to focus on applications, not distros.