▲ 715 ▼ 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 marcie@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 196 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (2 children) I guess we have different use cases is all. People who primarily use their computers for gaming. My PC is: My media server My workstation when WFH My entertainment center if the TV is busy My gaming PC My hobby development PC (In no particular order.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago I think a lot of people are basically looking for "Windows but not Microsoft/Windows". So it's their gaming PC where they also browse the internet/social media and watch YouTube or Twitch (sometimes at the same time that they're gaming), and maybe do some other ancillary stuff like art (digital art, 3d rendering, music, video or photo editing, etc.) or some other hobby related stuff. So Bazzite is kinda at the center of this perfect storm where plenty of PC gamers have seen the SteamOS/Big Picture mode and gone, "If I could use SteamOS as a traditional desktop, I would in a heartbeat" while Microsoft is also fumbling harder than they ever have - which is saying a lot - and Linux is the easiest to get up and running that it's ever been - to the point where immutable distros are as plug and play as Windows. Then Bazzite comes along and says, "Hey, SteamOS isn't desktop comparable yet, so we went and made it ourselves (with blackjack, and hookers)." permalink fedilink source parent [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) Just an fyi, Bazzite does all of that as well. It's not just gaming, it's a fully functional OS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) So you can install packages? It's not a fully immutable system? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) You install the package and it adds it to your OS image (that re-initializes every time you boot). They say you should try to avoid it if you can, so if there's a flatpak use that, if not, then a distrobox with Fedora toolbox for .RPMs or Arch (for AUR and yay) or whatever other distro you choose, then shortcutting it right to your host OS. By this point, you've probably already found a way (or three) to get it to work. If all that doesn't work, then you can layer packages onto your image by installing the local .RPM using rpm-ostree then rebooting. I've only had to do this with my VPN client so far. Only annoyance is that you have to update it manually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago I think a lot of people are basically looking for "Windows but not Microsoft/Windows". So it's their gaming PC where they also browse the internet/social media and watch YouTube or Twitch (sometimes at the same time that they're gaming), and maybe do some other ancillary stuff like art (digital art, 3d rendering, music, video or photo editing, etc.) or some other hobby related stuff. So Bazzite is kinda at the center of this perfect storm where plenty of PC gamers have seen the SteamOS/Big Picture mode and gone, "If I could use SteamOS as a traditional desktop, I would in a heartbeat" while Microsoft is also fumbling harder than they ever have - which is saying a lot - and Linux is the easiest to get up and running that it's ever been - to the point where immutable distros are as plug and play as Windows. Then Bazzite comes along and says, "Hey, SteamOS isn't desktop comparable yet, so we went and made it ourselves (with blackjack, and hookers)." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) Just an fyi, Bazzite does all of that as well. It's not just gaming, it's a fully functional OS permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) So you can install packages? It's not a fully immutable system? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) You install the package and it adds it to your OS image (that re-initializes every time you boot). They say you should try to avoid it if you can, so if there's a flatpak use that, if not, then a distrobox with Fedora toolbox for .RPMs or Arch (for AUR and yay) or whatever other distro you choose, then shortcutting it right to your host OS. By this point, you've probably already found a way (or three) to get it to work. If all that doesn't work, then you can layer packages onto your image by installing the local .RPM using rpm-ostree then rebooting. I've only had to do this with my VPN client so far. Only annoyance is that you have to update it manually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child) So you can install packages? It's not a fully immutable system? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) You install the package and it adds it to your OS image (that re-initializes every time you boot). They say you should try to avoid it if you can, so if there's a flatpak use that, if not, then a distrobox with Fedora toolbox for .RPMs or Arch (for AUR and yay) or whatever other distro you choose, then shortcutting it right to your host OS. By this point, you've probably already found a way (or three) to get it to work. If all that doesn't work, then you can layer packages onto your image by installing the local .RPM using rpm-ostree then rebooting. I've only had to do this with my VPN client so far. Only annoyance is that you have to update it manually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child) You install the package and it adds it to your OS image (that re-initializes every time you boot). They say you should try to avoid it if you can, so if there's a flatpak use that, if not, then a distrobox with Fedora toolbox for .RPMs or Arch (for AUR and yay) or whatever other distro you choose, then shortcutting it right to your host OS. By this point, you've probably already found a way (or three) to get it to work. If all that doesn't work, then you can layer packages onto your image by installing the local .RPM using rpm-ostree then rebooting. I've only had to do this with my VPN client so far. Only annoyance is that you have to update it manually. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance. permalink fedilink source parent
