Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now
Yes… ha ha ha… YES!
(i dont even use bazzite but love that for them)
I wish people stopped recommending Mint to Windows users
Fedora Kinoite is, probably, the best recommendation.
Mint’s mouse acceleration was what killed it for me. Setting acceleration to “constant” still felt rubber-bandy and fucked up, and there’s no obvious “Off” option. That was a hard stop. It never felt like I was using my PC but instead a rubber-bandy immitation. I immediately switched. It’s frustrating considering that the rest of the OS seemed OK, I could have seen myself using it if not for that.
Bazzite immediately felt “good” to use right out of the box. No baked in acceleration weirdness. Kudos to the team for really putting in the effort to make this old gamer feel right at home in it. Now going on over a year of it and still loving it.
Can someone ELI5 why Bazzite is so popular? I’m a Linux longtimer (since 2006!) but never heard of Bazzite.
Besides the reasons others mentioned, it’s also popular as an OS for gaming handhelds, like the Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS Ally X and what have you.
Thanks, Steve
I am looking forward to GNU+Linux usage share numbers a year from now. I think it is very likely to pass 5%.
Does this count torrent downloads?
probably not
Gamers rock
Installed this on my Legion Go recently, it’s amazing.
I’ve been using Pop OS and it’s been pretty good but I’m not super tied to it, would Bazzite be better at all?
Why do people use PopOS? I genuinely don’t get it.
Idk, it was recommended as a more entry-level distro for people who are used to Windows and Ubuntu. Seems pretty good and looks pretty professional
Reddit apocalypse
How is Bazzite for NVIDIA users?
At most you might have to switch to the closed driver image
What’s the appeal of Bazzite over regular Fedora immutable version? I’ve personally never had an issue running Steam on Fedora, then again I wouldn’t consider myself a “gamer,” certainly not my biggest requirement as far as computing is concerned.
they have nice scripts and tweaks, and afaik steam as a flatpak runs a bit weird so youd have to layer it whereas it comes prebaked on bazzite.
