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Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

In my experience, Debian has been very low maintenance. Occasionally, you may run into an issue that would be solved by having newer packages. If that happens, consider switching to Fedora.

My Fedora installations have been pretty smooth. The only thing that always breaks randomly is the software update GUI. I just got fed up with that and ended up using the terminal for installing all updates. Apparently this distro requires a bit more maintenance.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Fedora installations have been pretty smooth.

    ended up using the terminal for installing all updates.

    My experience as well with my Arch installations after a decade with that distro. I run a system upgrade because I want to, not because I need to. Never does it break unless I'm careless when upgrading and not checking the news page beforehand, which you are supposed to do. As long as I play by the rules, it's super stable. (Never did it break for me anyway though. Never happened apart from hardware failure.)

    Although admittedly I almost never do check the news page before upgrading, but/because there's rarely anything there. And after a while you learn to recognize the volatile packages which can break your system, so e.g. if systemd has an update I'll check the page before hitting enter, and so on.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Remember this one from 2022?

    Yeah, that one ended up being a learning experience… After recovering from that dumb misadventure, I finally learned to take those announcements more seriously.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, vaguely 😅 I use syslinux for booting, habit from when I used to dual boot, so I was luckily not affected. But yes, it is definitely wise to check the news before upgrading system-critical packages!

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I can't be bothered to update every day, or even every week. LOL. More like once a month or so, which means that it's usually 100 MB or more and there's at least one package that is more or less critical. When I start updating, and before hitting Y, I pause for a second and realise I should totally check the news first. Usually, it's fine, but over the years, there have been a few times when intervention was necessary.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    If you only update once a month (which should be fine as well, definitely), then you only need to check the news page once a month too, less often than I do probably. 😄 Seems like a win-win. 👌

    You can also selectively update packages of course, but this is strongly ill-advised unless you know what you're doing.

    But like, doas pacman -Sy firefox should be fine...

    You didn't hear it from me. 🤐🥸

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    The “unless you know what you’re doing” part tells me it’s totally worth it in some highly exceptional situations. You just need to be able to justify spending a few hours to figure out exactly how to do it safely.

    Best thing about Linux is that you can do literally anything you want. If it works, it’s awesome. If you break your system, you get to keep the pieces and learn something new along the way.

    I’m utilizing this liberty by being a lazy admin who updates things like eventually™ or soon™. Haven’t learned any hard lessons yet, so I guess it’s ok. Or maybe I just know what I’m doing…

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Agreed. 😄 Arch and pacman definitely adheres to this philosophy of "unless you know what you're doing". Pacman allows this type of selective upgrade, and it allows to ignore any package you like during a system/all-package upgrade, which may or may not break the system.

    You can also post-install make changes to the database of installed packages, like change the install reason for a package (as a dependency or as explicitly installed).

    All these things are happily executed without warning. 😁

    The reason for the need to check the news is that the system can have any combination of package versions installed, and requiring manual intervention by the user in any quirky upgrade situations helps to keep the complexity down of the system and package manager. I think it's worth the low complexity.

    The overhead of checking the website is super low. It's basically the same as checking the release notes when there's a new version of Ubuntu, or whatever other software you might be curious of. Same thing.

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