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Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November. (thelemmy.club)
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Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's Linux for people who don't know how to use Linux. I don't mean that in a derogatory way either.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    I'm a Linux user since the age of Slackware diskette installs.

    I tried Bazzite, or Aurora, rather, and found that it wasn't for me. Having to spin up distro boxes or VMs to do things that are pacman -Syu some-random-app in my current distro, is just not for me.

    I lived in ultrastable Debianland for years, and recently tried Script Kiddie Arch (CachyOS). I have my at-least-for-now forever home.

    I have a fairly bleeding edge distro that is slick, fast, polished, friendly, and If something goes boom, I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me, and I don't have to live in a system where the important decisions are made for me.

    I have an old iMac for that.

    CachyOS is friendlier and less problematic than W11, and if you need help, it's wiki + Arch's legendary wiki + community is way more useful than your average Windows "run DISM" bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me

    FWIW, openSUSE literally pioneered the above workflow with Tumbleweed. But that didn't prevent them from developing openSUSE MicroOS (and its desktop-adjacent siblings). So, unless openSUSE has absolutely no clue on what they're doing, there is more to it than that. Even if 'that something' isn't relevant for you (yet).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    What about the people who already have many computers for other purposes, and they just don’t feel like using the gaming machine for any of the purposes. What if they already get to tinker and tweak the other computers to such an extent that there’s no need for them to do any of that with the gaming system.

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