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100K Penguins! Bazzite hits 100,000 weekly active devices, growing 14k devices in the past 3 months. (universal-blue.discourse.group)
submitted 12 hours ago* by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 1 hour ago

What happened in May to cause those weird spikes in multiple distros? And some weird dips near the middle of August.

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    [–] 29 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    I just love Bazzite. For daily driving I use another distro, but for my gaming PC below my TV I chose Bazzite and it keeps happily chugging along. I never had any problems, it goes out of my way, never bugs me and does what it needs to do. I honestly never even noticed it updating before (it does though!). I was even able to swap from a NVIDIA GPU to an AMD one and could do the rebase with no issues and minimal knowledge. Steam launches in Big Picture mode and I get the full console experience. And if I feel like mouse and keyboard is needed I can just stream using sunshine to my other PC. It is not that hard, Microsoft.

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    • [–] 17 points 11 hours ago

    Let a thousand penguins bloom

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    [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    Good thing the server logo has a penguin on it I didn’t put it together immediately and assumed their user base was full of aquatic birds

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    [–] 11 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

    Love my Baazite. The immutability is a bit annoying.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 hours ago

    Only the main OS image is immutable, but there's distrobox, homebrew, virtual machines (now moved to bazzite-dx, only a rebase away), lots of ways to install stuff in userspace.

    Distroboxes are actually a really good developer workflow (except for system level stuff) once you adapt, install everything needed for a project, develop, archive the environment, all without touching the main OS. Obscure old project with instructions only for Arch, needing old python and CUDA versions, no problem. Super versatile and you never boot to a broken system.

    In a pinch you can also change the image with rpm-ostree install.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

    I thought the immutability was the reason it was peoples choice over a distro like cachyos.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    For me and my needs it is lol

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    If its just a gaming PC you really don't need much outside of the discover store, steam, and a web browser so its fine and probably just a safe move especially if its a shared PC.

    Its only really annoying if your gaming rig is your main rig too.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    Not quite. I've run into a gaming case where immutability becomes a problem: Syncthing.

    If you want to synchronize emulator saves between devices then Syncthing is great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks (aka Syncthing-gtk). At least not on Steam Deck, which doesn't have Syncthing baked into the main distro

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago*

    I tried it and I wanted to uninstall Steam because I use Lutris and don’t want something proprietary potentially collecting data. I’m sure it’s possible to do, but I couldn’t be bothered because it’d be going against the grain. I like the concept otherwise, especially for a gaming distro. An immutable gaming / HTPC distro with Plsma Bigscreen and no Steam would be the bees knees.

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    • [–] 1 point 8 hours ago

    Thank Jay2Cents for that.

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