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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 šŸ„³ (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 šŸ‘¼ I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[ā€“] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

The ā€œunless you know what youā€™re doingā€ part tells me itā€™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, itā€™s awesome. If you break your system, you get to keep the pieces and learn something new along the way.

Iā€™m utilizing this liberty by being a lazy admin who updates things like eventuallyā„¢ or soonā„¢. Havenā€™t learned any hard lessons yet, so I guess itā€™s ok. Or maybe I just know what Iā€™m doingā€¦

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  • [ā€“] 2 points 7 months ago

    Agreed. šŸ˜„ 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. šŸ˜

    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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