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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux (www.tweaktown.com)
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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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