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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] 69 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Bazzite.

I found it really easy to get started with. Although I’d recommend KDE over Gnome. I tried Gnome for a few hours before changing my mind and it was just a little too different from what I was used to.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    That's honestly the way. Bazzite just works without tinkering. It doesn't eat into your game time with debugging. Plus KDE is very Win10 like, so it's all just familiar and easy.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I'm glad Bazzite is what it is, but I'm hoping some of y'all get interested in other distros in the next few years. There's several great options out there (and I don't want to say … have everyone wind up on Ubuntu flavors and be having the same conversation about corporate overreach in a decade with Canonical as the new Microsoft)

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

    Eh, I already have a decent amount of skill with running other distros headless. When it's gaming time I prefer a solution that just works 99% of the time.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Bazzite exists because of SteamOS, and SteamOS is Arch-based. If there's a danger of one OS starting to dominate, I'd still think SteamOS is more likely because it has Valve's backing.

    I don't think there's much danger of all other distributions disappearing any time soon, even for gaming applications.

    What I hope is that container-based atomic-type distributions take off. I've been using Linux for decades, and it's such a nice change to have an OS where I don't have to fiddle with drivers or the base OS.

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

    have everyone wind up on Ubuntu flavors and be having the same conversation about corporate overreach in a decade with Canonical as the new Microsoft)

    Bazzite is Fedora based, not Ubuntu.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yes, I know - but my concern is eventual capture, like Microsoft has done to GitHub or how IBM is 'partially closing' RHEL's source code. My point is that off were all in one basket (Bazzite) it's easier to be taken over and reigned in. Bazzite is fine, but I hope is not the only distro all the influx of Windows users settle on. There's a wealth of great projects - Garuda for example is a great gaming Linux distro.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    if you miss iphone + cydia, gnome + extensions is max dopamine, plus with arcmenu (customizable start menu, many presets) and dash to panel (panel like windows/kde) it's basically like any other de.

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

    The current gnome (3) is very different from previous versions. You might like a modern fork of gnome, like mate. Don't let something that has a gnome connection turn you off right away if all you've seen is gnome 3.

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

    I... don't think Bazzite has a... mate flavor/spin/variant?

    I think its just KDE or GNOME?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    if on cachyos you get like 12+ de options which is nice when initially testing them all out, just demo each for a while

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Thats neat, I didn't know that!

    Yeah, a benefit of arch based distros is that they are much, much more customizable than other OSs... downside of that though is that there are a whole lot more bugs that can happen, whole lot more crazy custom solutions that may need to be figured out.

    I've not used Cachy, but I have used Arch before... if the Cachy people can figure out a way to keep all that just generally more stable, honestly kudos to them!

    Bazzite basically narrows its official support scope so they can focus on a feature set that 'just works'... I am sure I could figure out how to torture a Bazzite install to work with a non KDE / Gnome DE, but it would be a lot of work.

    Or maybe it could set it up with the built in distrobox/distroshelf tools? Not sure, never futzed with a different DE in a distrobox.

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