mereo comments on Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11

After using Bazzite, I'm convinced that image based distros are the future for end users. Need to install an app? Flatpak. Need to install command line? Homebrew.

It all installs in user space. And Flatpak at least uses an effective sandbox system.

Distros that maintain their own package spaces are duplicating a. lot. of work.

The downside of Flatpak is the disk space usage. But that doesn't matter as much to me as it used to.

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Disk space usage isn't that bad anyway since there's some deduplication going on.

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[–] Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 months ago

I ran SteamOS for a while before they made the recent announcement. It works great. Previously, just had to tell it to always boot in Desktop mode.

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I can chime in for Bazzite. It's imperfect, but I've blown up my fair share of aliens and they make playing your games on Linux really easy compared to anything else I've used. I can even stream the game from my desktop to a laptop in my bedroom via sunshine/moonlight which Bazzite helps you install as SteamLink doesn't play nice with Bazzite.

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[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Upvote for Bazzite - the caveat being how much support the distro gets and how long it lives. That said it turned a truly piece of crap all in one hp to something that was fun in about 30 minutes. it's a good gaming OS but I wouldn't use it as my daily driver.

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