But have you read The Good Book (Dolstra et al, 2004)?
No, that’s Garuda.
Also gaming focused, also super easy, not so locked down it won’t let you change your login background, also has great Nvidia support. Arch.
… I use Bazzite btw
I don’t use Bazzite, but I do recommend it for new Linux users.
Generally I think immutable distros are the best entry-level distros for newcomers. Stops people from accidentally bricking their system.
Why?
Not judging or anything. Just curious why it’s your go-to. Mine’s either “Ubuntu” or “try several live distros, see what you like the feel of before installing one”.
I would never recommend Ubuntu to anyone. Canonical cannot be trusted and Snaps are a plague on Linux. They care more about their own control than the needs of users.
But why Bazzite?
- Being atomic makes it hard to break.
- KDE Plasma is familiar to Windows users, and familiarity is important when making the jump.
- It installs fast and, being based on Fedora, has excellent hardware support with no fuss.
- It comes with gaming software preinstalled and ready-to-go.
- It’s Flatpak-native, so finding, installing, and maintining software is safe and easy.
It lets new users get back to their lives without having to learn much of anything. If users get more advanced and need to go non-atomic, I recommend graduating to Fedora KDE. It stays familiar but gives more control.
From there, a Linux pilgrim has all the tools and experience they need to make their Linux journey their own.
Thanks. Let me check my understanding here. You don’t trust Canonical, but you do trust Red Hat?
No I do not. However, Red Hat does not control Fedora, they sponsor it.
I use openSUSE btw.
Same here, for over a year! Made me love Linux, and computing again! Even games like I’m not missing anything from Windoze, and that’s all I really needed! :)
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useam compiling Gentoo BTWThere are dozens of us. Dozens!
I’m on Aeon. Does that count?
Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!
Don’t know what’s all the fuss about (I use mint btw)
Did you test it?
No, haven’t tested bazzite. I’m sure it’s great as I’ve heard good things about it. My comment was just a joke comment since we are in a meme community (but I do actually use mint, btw)
Ahh, I didn’t see that! Sorry 👻
No worries :)
I truly believe Nobara to be better suited for gaming than Bazzite. I don’t really get the hype. But then again, to each his own distro.
Nobara didn’t used to have a Steam Deck image. Bazzite was one of the first distros, if not the first to have one. that’s why Bazzite is more popular. there was a huge surge of people on r/SteamDeck who switched to Bazzite, and that popularity moved on to other handhelds like the ASUS ones.
As a nobara user: it needs a better update tool, what’s implemented is complete dogshit that acts invisibly but if you interrupt it oh boy enjoy reinstalling the entire system because you just destroyed it
Which is why I use
sudo nobara-sync cli(this is built-in)Fast, simple and verbose
Bazzite is like a easy newbie introduction to Linux. It’s really hard to mess up Bazzite, like really hard. In the same regard it can also be a pain to install anything outside of their ecosystem. If you run it with Distrobox it’s not a big deal but I don’t see a lot of new users going that route. If you’re just looking to browse, stream, and game than Bazzite is perfect and you don’t need anything else. Beyond that? Distrobox or use a different distro.
I tried Bazzite, I didn’t like it, I found it too limiting but I do see the appeal of it.
I’m on Bazzite after giving the other ublue flavours a try. It took a couple of weeks to get comfortable with the new philosophy, but now I can’t see myself going back. What felt like limitations at first, now feels like good habits. All my dev work is done in containers, so it just makes sense.
Haha… No its not, but bazzite users really want it to be. :)
Pft. I compile Gentoo for my GameCube, btw
It is nice to see someone using the “Nobody:” meme format correctly.
I use TempleOS btw.
Excuse me, this is a Linux community, I’m afraid you’re going to have to leave.
/joke
The developer died in 2018 BTW
That’s ok. TempleOS is not just an operating system. It’s a spiritual experience. Also, it’s not like he would have made it useful if he kept working on it.
Gaming like God intended
There are just so many good distros available these days. Doesn’t stop me from using bazzite, though.
Everyone loves Bazzite, and they’re probably all right, but it did not run very well on my old gaming laptop.
Since people often mention Linux (in general) as being a good OS for older hardware, I thought this anecdote might be a helpful perspective to some.
I tried two or three other distros on that laptop, and they all ran fine as expected. I assume Bazzite has some higher system requirements to power its cool features.Guy came into my workplace this week and I was saying I was slowly getting into developing a game engine with SDL. When he heard I was using ubuntu he recommended Bazzite, saying he has no trouble with it and uses his machine mostly for gaming. Is it Debian based or something else? At least it’s not that meme distro Arch I guess, might try it
It’s Fedora based. If you want to develop on it, it supports containerized workflows. There’s a DX version explicitly designed for developers.
I’m glad all of you are using various Linux distros and I’m glad there is so much choice within this community. Keep it up!
