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Okay why is your distro the best? (programming.dev)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Bazzite just works, it runs every game I have with zero fuss, it's easy to run Windows programs / emulators / local LLMs, AND it's basically unbreakable.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I can't claim it's the best, but it's the best for me right now.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    On a gaming laptop I'm using Aurora because KDE Plasma btw (:

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bazzite has a KDE version too. I think it is more popular then the GNOME version of bazzite actually. At least according to the results of the latest steam survey

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yep I use KDE-flavored Bazzite and actually forgot GNOME was even offered! It works deliciously. Came over from Windows last winter finally and boy, the UI alone is just so much nicer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I had avoided KDE for years due to some multi-screen resolution issues back in the day.

    I'd be running gnome, and install a half dozen plugins to make it look and feel closer to Windows It was just a personal preference. Every other update some plugin I was using would be broken. I'd replace it with another plug-in or uninstall it and wait for a fix. Fight fight fight fight fight fight. Some number of years later I tried KDE again, and I realized that it did exactly what I was trying to do in Gnome but it did it out of the box.

    I don't have anything against Gnome. The same way I don't have anything against OS X's "window manager" or even Windows 11's "window manager" they're just not my preference.

    Bottom left navigation, thin, stacked app indicators, bottom right tray. Fractional scaling, widgets.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I tried KDE over a decade ago before using Mint for a while. Then I saw someone's laptop running vanilla GNOME and thought it looked nice. But a couple of years ago I realised that GNOME's insistence on hiding settings in "tweaks"/gsettings and generally making it harder to do what I wanted was getting in the way. KDE still has the configurability that I loved when I first started using Linux and GNOME 2, without being an infinite config hellhole like the niche WMs

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I haven't bothered to actually search or troubleshoot yet, but since I'm here - have you had any problems with power management failing to automatically turn screens off when idle?

    I don't get consistent behavior there it seems (AKA it leaves them on when it shouldn't), but that's I think the only significant oddity I've found in the ~7 months or so I've been running Bazzite. And like I said I've done basically nothing yet to try to solve it, just wondering if you've seen it. I have the issue on a desktop and a laptop, using entirely different monitors (not even same brand) FWIW.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I haven't had any problems like that, but I generally don't leave my screen on. So perhaps I would have this issue, but just never notice it because of how I use the device.

    I'm very conscious of energy use, I almost always manually set my laptop to sleep if I'm leaving it idle for a while.

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