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Here is Fedora's upstream graph to compare:
I so badly want to do the "old man yells at cloud" meme and be angry that Bazzite is so popular.
I want to do it, I'm resisting hnnnngg
Atomic bad because different and I don't like things that are different. 🧓
Wait, so 0.2% of all Aurora Users are me?
I read Brazzite as Brazzers 😅
Mate I think you misread it again.
Let’s see, Microsoft kills 10, which nobody really loved but they were willing to tolerate. Microsoft insists they move to 11, which is universally reviled.
Gamers predictably say “fuck this” and install the first gaming-oriented alternative to windows 11 they can find on Bing, and then this happens.
Has Microsoft realized the Intel-level deep shit they are in yet?
Microsoft doesn't actually care because most of their revenue is from corporate environments tied to the OS and their cloud offerings. Everyday users are nothing to them, which is why they don't try harder to keep you from using unactivated copies of windows. You are nothing
Right up until these new Linux users start demanding linux at work as well. And IT folk will be more then happy to supply them.
No I truly think Microsoft is slowly losing the OS market.
Let me put it this way: if you had to start fresh. New company. Would you default to using windows? The fact that many are hesitant after that question, shows you Microsoft is losing.
you’re overestimating the “IT folk”.
5k users down 999,995k left to go!
Mind you that's only Bazzite, Zorin has been making large gains as well.
5k in 2 months isn’t a lot.
Not if we look at it as linear growth. But in the environment we are in, this has the potential to be exponential growth.
Remember when Intel intentionally ignored the mobile market?
But the mobile market is filled in now and android is the windows of mobile
This isnt a magical new market.
But a major player is basically leaving it.
? Which player?
I think it may be dawning on them. I'm on an international holiday & didn't get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I'd looked I'm sure ESU was for businesses only.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates
The bit that made me laugh was: "ESU enrollment does not provide other types of fixes, feature improvements, or product enhancements." Phew!
I'll crack on with upgrading to Linux when I get home, nice little winter project.
I’ve been on Linux for a bit. I was fedora for a long time and it’s totally fine but I tried out Bazzite for gaming and it’s been really good experience. I like tinkering but I never played as much game time because I was tinker with it. Now it mostly just work and that’s awesome.
There are a few things I don’t like about Bazzite, like ujust for example, but it’s still worth it to me.
If anyone likes Bazzite but doesn't want the immutability, Garuda is also gamer focused and easy.
I hadn’t heard of Garuda before! I’ll check it out!
I'm a long-time Mint guy, my current desktop is Fedora KDE because Wayland, and I'm looking at Bazzite for my old computer/HTPC but it doesn't support my old GTX-1080 GPU, I might get a low-tier Radeon for it (I don't want to buy an Intel card and fuck Nvidia's butt, that GTX-1080 was literally the only GPU available to me in 2020).
Is bazzite better than Steam OS?
Yes
They are different. If I could run steamos I’d probably run that. But on my hardware Bazzite is the best of the compatible options.
For all intents and purposes it is Steam OS.
This is a Linux distro focused on gaming.
In the future, please say what the project is for when you post about it.
I was also wondering what the fuck this is. From the Wikipedia introductory paragraph:
Bazzite is a Fedora-based[1] Linux distribution designed to be similar to Valve's SteamOS 3 while still functioning as a normal computer.[2][3][4] It offers support for handheld PC devices, including the Steam Deck.
while still functioning as a normal computer
Reminds me of when a school instructor walked by and looked at my laptop and he's like "whoa what is that" (I had Firefox running) and I said it was Linux and he was like "whoa I didn't know Linux could do that"
???
Maybe they'd only ever used it headless?
The amount of stuff i read about it ,i'd thought 30 Million! Lot of noise about it out there.
I too was surprise to read the actual number being so low considering how much it's talked about. I never really saw the appeal as steam is pretty easy to get set up and running on any mainstream Linux distro with little fuss, but I recognize it was set up for newbies who want an gaming ready experience. It's an interesting project regardless.
i'd think 30k is a lot for a 2-year-old OS, but i know very little
Bazzite is absolutely great, if you just want a very reliable system that just works and goes out of your way. I lean nowadays way more into recommending Bazzite to new Linux users, since there is literally not much to initially set up, no matter the hardware. Gaming works perfectly fine and any regular users software needs get easily satisfied by the Bazaar.
I've been using it for 3mo now. Mostly no issues, except for installing packages without flatpak, and also the weird random slowdown to freeze (I'm assuming memory management?) I mostly use my machine for learning freecad, watxhing jellyfin, using a browser, and playing Genshin (relaxing to play while people bitch at me on my phone job)
I also installed it on two machines now and really like it. But I have exactly the same freezing issues. I already increased my zram swap to 8GB (having 32GB RAM), but long running idle games still freeze the whole system after a while. Could be a memory leak. I also tried to tweak the config so that applications are automatically closed when on low RAM, but that still didn't help yet.
I don't have any slowdowns or freezes. Do you experience this with other distros as well?
Just years ago with Xubuntu. It may just be my use case. Seems to happen with WINE related stuff mostly, and I usually after days running. Once a week restart isn't too painful.
I am one of them! Converted my main machine this weekend. The worst problem I have had is getting the settings right for a Jellyfin container. Got all my games running, even City of Heroes (using Wine / Lutris). Takes a little getting used to when I have mostly used Debian-based distros in the past.
Bazzite is an awesome gaming machine but I def find it annoying for other stuff sometimes. I should probably install a separate distribution for everything else but I don’t want to flip between two.
