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Rightfully so!
(I use Bazzite btw)
It’s honestly so easy to get into and works, I’m honestly surprised it isn’t suggested more!
(I use bazzite btw)
The user base for other universal-blue distros like Aurora is way smaller so it’s actually special. I use Aurora btw.
It’s on my Framework 13. 😌
I use openSUSE btw.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I’m on Aeon. Does that count?
Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!
I’m on Aeon. Does that count?
I use Fedora which is Bazzite with different preinstalled bloat
Can easily make your own Bazzite FROM Silverblue.
Guy came into my workplace this week and I was saying I was slowly getting into developing a game engine with SDL. When he heard I was using ubuntu he recommended Bazzite, saying he has no trouble with it and uses his machine mostly for gaming. Is it Debian based or something else? At least it’s not that meme distro Arch I guess, might try it
I don’t use Bazzite, but I do recommend it for new Linux users.
Generally I think immutable distros are the best entry-level distros for newcomers. Stops people from accidentally bricking their system.
Why?
Not judging or anything. Just curious why it’s your go-to. Mine’s either “Ubuntu” or “try several live distros, see what you like the feel of before installing one”.
I would never recommend Ubuntu to anyone. Canonical cannot be trusted and Snaps are a plague on Linux. They care more about their own control than the needs of users.
But why Bazzite?
- Being atomic makes it hard to break.
- KDE Plasma is familiar to Windows users, and familiarity is important when making the jump.
- It installs fast and, being based on Fedora, has excellent hardware support with no fuss.
- It comes with gaming software preinstalled and ready-to-go.
- It’s Flatpak-native, so finding, installing, and maintining software is safe and easy.
It lets new users get back to their lives without having to learn much of anything. If users get more advanced and need to go non-atomic, I recommend graduating to Fedora KDE. It stays familiar but gives more control.
From there, a Linux pilgrim has all the tools and experience they need to make their Linux journey their own.
Thanks. Let me check my understanding here. You don’t trust Canonical, but you do trust Red Hat?
No I do not. However, Red Hat does not control Fedora, they sponsor it.
Haha… No its not, but bazzite users really want it to be. :)
I don’t use Linux yet but when I do change it will be Bazzite btw. (I have an Nvidia graphics card and from the little research I did, Bazzite seems to be a good distro for Linux gaming)
I use Bazzite btw and I am yet to encounter a game that it won’t run.
Pft. I compile Gentoo for my GameCube, btw
B-b-but NixOS!
… I use Bazzite btw
I truly believe Nobara to be better suited for gaming than Bazzite. I don’t really get the hype. But then again, to each his own distro.
As a nobara user: it needs a better update tool, what’s implemented is complete dogshit that acts invisibly but if you interrupt it oh boy enjoy reinstalling the entire system because you just destroyed it
Which is why I use
sudo nobara-sync cli(this is built-in)Fast, simple and verbose
Bazzite is like a easy newbie introduction to Linux. It’s really hard to mess up Bazzite, like really hard. In the same regard it can also be a pain to install anything outside of their ecosystem. If you run it with Distrobox it’s not a big deal but I don’t see a lot of new users going that route. If you’re just looking to browse, stream, and game than Bazzite is perfect and you don’t need anything else. Beyond that? Distrobox or use a different distro.
I tried Bazzite, I didn’t like it, I found it too limiting but I do see the appeal of it.
I’m on Bazzite after giving the other ublue flavours a try. It took a couple of weeks to get comfortable with the new philosophy, but now I can’t see myself going back. What felt like limitations at first, now feels like good habits. All my dev work is done in containers, so it just makes sense.
Nobara didn’t used to have a Steam Deck image. Bazzite was one of the first distros, if not the first to have one. that’s why Bazzite is more popular. there was a huge surge of people on r/SteamDeck who switched to Bazzite, and that popularity moved on to other handhelds like the ASUS ones.
I’m not sure if that reasoning is true, though. The popularity over time of both Bazzite and Nobara can be viewed through many different ways, but the data seems to suggest that Bazzite overtaking Nobara in popularity happened long after both had received their respective Steam Deck images. Heck, even Bazzite’s own metrics seem to suggest that the hype is a very recent one. This is also reflected on social media platforms like Youtube:
- Bazzite’s most viewed videos were all created within the last year or so
- While Nobara’s most viewed videos were all created over two years ago
As for how or why Bazzite succeeded in overtaking Nobara? I actually don’t know. Perhaps it’s simply because it happens to be closer to SteamOS[1] in design philosophy. Or, maybe its atomic/‘cloud-native’ (or whatever) nature makes it (somehow) more attractive to install for the crowd that (at least traditionally) never got into Linux.
FWIW -perhaps we may find the crux of the matter in here- if I had to pick a distro to use on my personal gaming rig, then I’d probs go for CachyOS[2] for its (ever-so-slightly) superior performance. But…, if I were to install a distro on the gaming rig of a new-Linux user, then I’d undoubtedly go for Bazzite instead.
Honestly I’d welcome this, the Linux podcasts I listen to are still going on and on about nix. At least it would be something different.
I’m considering Bazzite for a Win 10 machine that I only use to play Steam games. Really hoping that it “just works” for most of my library.
Could I consider any game that is Steam Deck Verified will work fine? Am I likely to run into a ton of issues? I game exclusively with a wireless XBone controller.
I think the controller is the least compatible thing there.
(I use bazzite, btw ;) )
I do have a Steam controller which would probably be a suitable replacement.
Is there a different controller that works better for you?
I’m clueless about Linux, so I tried it. It seems to be just working for me for most of my Steam library, at least with Proton Experimental. I don’t have a XBone controller, but my SteelSeries knockoff does fine. That said, I have no idea what might cause it to break. (Though, it doesn’t seem to like my mechanical hard drives much.)
(I use bazzite, btw ;) )
idk, but I use Ubuntu and pretty much everything on Steam works for me. I’ve only ever come across three games I wanted to and couldn’t play, two of them are Epic gacha trash, and the other one’s Skyrim with dll mods (non-dll mods work fine).
It is nice to see someone using the “Nobody:” meme format correctly.
