But have you read The Good Book (Dolstra et al, 2004)?
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.
Everyone loves Bazzite, and they’re probably all right, but it did not run very well on my old gaming laptop.
Since people often mention Linux (in general) as being a good OS for older hardware, I thought this anecdote might be a helpful perspective to some.
I tried two or three other distros on that laptop, and they all ran fine as expected. I assume Bazzite has some higher system requirements to power its cool features.No, that’s Garuda.
Also gaming focused, also super easy, not so locked down it won’t let you change your login background, also has great Nvidia support. Arch.
It is nice to see someone using the “Nobody:” meme format correctly.
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
It’s Fedora based. If you want to develop on it, it supports containerized workflows. There’s a DX version explicitly designed for developers.
I use TempleOS btw.
Excuse me, this is a Linux community, I’m afraid you’re going to have to leave.
/joke
The developer died in 2018 BTW
That’s ok. TempleOS is not just an operating system. It’s a spiritual experience. Also, it’s not like he would have made it useful if he kept working on it.
Gaming like God intended
B-b-but NixOS!
Haha… No its not, but bazzite users really want it to be. :)
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 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
I’m glad all of you are using various Linux distros and I’m glad there is so much choice within this community. Keep it up!
I use Windows BTW.
For work. They force me to 😭
Please send help!Just leave a penguin’s head in your boss’ bed
/joke
I love penguins. Can’t I just put a broken window in there?
Well, use a whole penguin then
/joke
The window it is. I’ll add extra shards as a garnish.
Your it guy gets a window?!
It could be worse. You could be stuck with legacy or embedded windows shudders
The worst thing is it is legacy, but it’s legacy Java. Why on earth am I developing with Windows?
I use Kinoite btw. I thought the idea of an immutable file system was neat but didn’t want to go all-in on just gaming. Even though my gaming experience on Kinoite has been nearly flawless.
