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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 πΌ I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive
It's amazing. Everything works perfectly, all my favorite games run smooth and gnome is amazing.
I left Linux 10 years ago because I didn't have the time to maintain a system.
Now it's less work than Windows to set everything up
I'm one. I set up a Windows/bazzite dual boot situation and I've never booted windows since.
what's bazzite like? might experiment with it when I get my caseless frankenstein floor computer to work lol
think steamos with all of it's goodies (and more bazzite-exclusive features), but on a more standardised linux base so you can run it on any pc and handheld, not just the steam deck. bazzite is also just as unbreakable as steamos, since it is an immutable (read-only system files) os, and updates the same way as a phone does (downloads an update in the background, and uses it on next boot with a rollback option in the super rare event that it breaks something).
Someone else could explain better than me I'm sure but, it's a Linux distro that is gaming focused. It comes pre-loaded with steam and video card drivers so that someone has a decent chance that their games will just "work".
buy, buy, BUY!
Been a happy Bazzite users for over a year. Not much of a gamer but NVIDIA drivers that don't require tinkering during updates (like with immutable Fedora) and being able to just use the old install until broken updates (sleep mode maybe once?) is sooooo convenient! Also people on their Discord (yeah, I know ...) are generally super helpful.
I've recently dove back into Linux and my last try was on Mint. After a few issues I went back to Windows. With the recent Microsoft news I wasn't happy using a system that could start spying on me.
It's been close to a month and aside from some specific game issues likely due to running a nivida GPU I've been enjoying my time so far.
Copy paste did take a while to get used to. Also the default screenshot tool doesn't automatically put the snip on the clipboard.
My main focus is gaming so this has been a solid operating system to use.
The universal blue distros are the fastest I've been able to have a usable computer up and running and doing what I want it to do. They are fantastic.
There are no official cosmic variants anymore, but there are things like Origami that you can rebase to, if you want to try. Can't vouch for their stability, but it's an option. If support is dropped you can rebase back to regular bazzite. Rebasing is easy and pretty safe, it basically acts like an update and switches out the system files, but you should back up your config files just in case the different DE's don't play nice with each others config settings. From what ublue developers have said this can cause problems or annoyances.
Or you could develop your own derivitive with bluebuild or something. I'm not sure how involved that requires you to be, but it's probably easier than learning nixos.
Yeah I tried out Origami I just felt the philosophy for the distro is a little strange lol. Cosmic itself was nice, it ran way snappier than GNOME and KDE on one of my really old computers, so thats interesting
I think its a new shiny thing but I expect most users to go back to ordinary Linux, and in a year there wont be many still using bazzite. But thats fine. I love playing with new tools myself. But most of them are just temporary and then its back to what works the easiest.
But this is what makes Linux fun. Its not just one system. Tons of desktops, tons of apps, tons of configs.
In my mother language, kinoite sounds like "what a night", ans I can't read it without some giggling >.<
Also, TIL that kinoite is a mineral
I installed Aurora today. My first immutable experience.
Is that 0,0002 % market share?
I actually want to completely undo DirectX and it's box.
No words can express my disgust for this gaming monopoly infrastructure.
Many had cool presents it seems π€
