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Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[–] mfat@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (19 children)

What's so special about this? Aside from the immutable thingy, of course.

[–] h3ron@lemmy.zip 86 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

Probably the fact that they have many ISOs tailored for each supported hardware configuration, and they point the user to the right ISO with a clear wizard in their download page.

Also basically it is an unbreakable gaming focused OS very close to SteamOS, that you don't have to maintain, and it comes preconfigured with Steam and the right drivers for your setup. I'm not the target audience, but I see the appeal.

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is why I chose it. Gaming living room computer that kids can't easily break. It just worked. Well, except for my idea to dual boot and have games pulling from an ntfs hdd. Bazzite hated that idea. So if you're using bazzite, make sure your games are on a Linux partition. Even though Linux is ok with ntfs for some reason beyond my expertise... Games do not like it.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Steam tends to have massive issues with permissions for games on NTFS partitions. You might've run into that.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I second this, had the exact same issue but on Arch back in February. But luckily windows can be made to play nice with non-NTFS drives.

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