Not everyone wants or needs to dig deeper though. If Bazzite meets all of someone's needs, good. The vast majority of people want an OS that just works out of the box.

Wendell uses cachyOs on his channel.

This should be a rule anyway, no shitting on people's preffered distros!

And excellent, because being linux, drawing attention to issues increases the chances of them getting fixed, whereas that is hardly the case for Windows.

This is the most important part of this whole thing to me. Imagine Nvidia watching Steve shitting on them for having horrible drivers on Linux and millions of people seeing that.

although i prefer the arch distros for bleeding edge and rolling updates. Bazzite makes sense for testing because of the immutable.

A lot of more experienced pc users might end up liking arch distros later in their life, but I would never recomnmend arch based distros to people who aren't comfortable with linux yet.

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Having his name on one of the most popular windows debloater was just as based.

LTT soon? They made a few Linux videos and still love windows too much to recommend it.

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DankPods my beloved as well. He’s not very technical with software so it’s quite interesting to hear him talk about it.

I think a big part of why they talked about it in the video is to explain their base assumptions for the test. They've discussed it with Windows enough that they don't need to say those anymore, but the Linux tests are new.

In addition, they do need to change theur workflow simply because they can't use the same software and scripts for Linux.

They're also addressing the reputation that Linux has among Windows users, even if that reputation is outdated

Gamers nexus blocks updates on every test round. When they do update their test systems they block updates and retest all hardware in their charts. The software is also the same, besides platform or driver specific software. They truly go for reproducible and as less unknown factors as possible, hence the discussion

Yes, if anything it seems easier to handle on linux. Just bake golden images that already have a static list of required packages.

I disagree. Keep in mind that most people seeing the benchmarks will be windows users, and seeing Bazzite's gaming performance along with it's reputation for simplicity to set up and may help convince them to switch. Plus, anyone that had experience with Linux will know the link between it and Fedora, and can adjust expectations for theur particular distro

They're aiming for "something the viewer can achieve themselves".

99% of ex-Windows users won't be going for Arch, Debian or Fedora. It's supposed to be easy to get in, difficult to screw up.

Bazzite would make it very easy to reproduce the same result. Just pull the exact version they used, set Proton and you're done

If it works and helps bringing new people over to Linux, why not?

This literally doubles (if not more) the workload to run these benchmarks, not to mention having to write new automation procedures and Steve just not being familiar with Linux at all, all for 2-3% (tops) of his audience.

Be glad that he is doing them in the future and don't be a demanding, entitled prick.

Sometimes you gotta be realistic that the majority of the population wouldn't have found Linux as friendly as many here are, even today, while Windows or is/was kinda the obvious mainstream choice for running any software... The balance seems to tip slowly, but honestly it took decades.

Even today you're still all debating which distro that didn't exist 10 years ago is the best, and which office suite can match Microsoft's... How am I going to convince my non-nerd friends to use Linux over Windows in that context.

About gaming, it's a matter of being able to run AAA games without issues, like, no bugs and anti-cheat problems. It's only since SteamOS that it is getting enough programmers and mainstream attention.

This is the way, but once again it required the power of a dominant company to move the lines.

Let's put that in a way that isn't so off putting. It's the duty of those in the know help those who are not when possible.