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Bazzite has gained nearly 10k users in 3 months while other Fedora Atomic distros remain fairly stagnant (lemmy.ml)
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10k added users since last post. Here are upstream Fedora numbers only

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ubuntu used to be one of the best gaming desktops that was still very stable and usable for everything else, but Canonical has been ruining it to make it more aimed at business and making more ways to profit, so Fedora has been filling the gap IMHO. Still some better dedicated gaming build distros, but Bazzite is good at being a gaming distro that works well as a productivity desktop too.

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ubuntu literally has never in it's history been a good gaming distro. It use to just be a popular one. But all of the Deb/apt distros have never been "good choices"

Arch and Gentoo were always the better options. And it's really only recently that the rest become reasonable options.

Gaming has historically been best on absolutely bleeding edge distros with a bunch of hacky community patches and fixes.

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[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I don’t think Ubuntu is ruined so much as that Bazzite is very focused on the gaming use case and is a better choice if that’s what you want to do. I use Ubuntu and have tried Bazzite (in a VM with an Nvidia GPU pass thru). Bazzite made the Nvidia based install incredibly easy, and is a particularly good choice for VFIO. I personally use Ubuntu specifically because it’s the same OS as my cloud servers. They solve real problems in that space.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gaming really benefits from up to date kernels. So Ubuntu just isn't a good choice for that.

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[–] TyrantTW@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Surprised to see it at the bottom of the graph, but for anyone with a homelab uCore is a present from the ~~heavens~~ cloud!

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Feel like saying more about what ya like?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Bazzite community really deserves tbe credit. Lots of work and great vibes all around!

[–] sgibson5150@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I use Aurora DX for my work box! But yeah all my personal PCs run Bazzite now.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

I started on Bazzite but transitioned to Aurora for my personal PC and wife's laptop. God I wish I could use it for work. I'm forced to use Windows or Mac.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I had been using Aurora-dx, but I also like to play games, so I re-based to Bazzite-dx when it became available.

[–] pirat@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Neat!

I've been running Garuda on my main rig for a minute. I thought all would be good but some of my music production stuff has been a bit slow to catch up as far as updates in the AUR vs the official .deb releases (and I haven't tinkered enough to just make that work myself).

Being able to install .deb otb seems nice; I was planning on running a new framework 12 laptop on it (which I dream of getting for a new performance rig for my music) but I may install it on my current performance rig to see how it runs.

How well does it play with nvidia? If it's all good and I eventually switch on my main rig I'd love to be able to run a local GPU supported AI. I know that for nvidia I have to have drivers that support cuda stuff.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You might want to check out distrobox. Nice way to access apps for other distros or package managers like they're native.

I'm also on Garuda for my main box (Bazzite on the framework 13), and I have an Ubuntu distrobox for dev work with one dev project, another for general tools that are only released as .debs, one running fedora for things that "only support RHEL", etc.

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[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Nvidia open source drivers are working pretty good, I have no complaints. Local AI stuff can be a little annoying to setup as a beginner I bet, but if you run it through llama.cpp its smooth sailing. I recommend something like StabilityMatrix (app image) if you have no clue whats going on

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[–] 7eter@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is there an overview of what differentiates all those Fedora Atomic derivates?

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fedora Atomic variants just differ in the desktop environments.

You can see Universal Blue stuff here: https://universal-blue.org/. But in short, Bazzite is for gaming and the others are for regular desktop uses. All have a “batteries-included” attitude. There’s also some images meant for servers.

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