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’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!
It is nice to see someone using the “Nobody:” meme format correctly.
Honestly I’d welcome this, the Linux podcasts I listen to are still going on and on about nix. At least it would be something different.
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.
B-b-but NixOS!
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.
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.
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.
I’m not sure if that reasoning is true, though. The popularity over time of both Bazzite and Nobara can be viewed through many different ways, but the data seems to suggest that Bazzite overtaking Nobara in popularity happened long after both had received their respective Steam Deck images. Heck, even Bazzite’s own metrics seem to suggest that the hype is a very recent one. This is also reflected on social media platforms like Youtube:
- Bazzite’s most viewed videos were all created within the last year or so
- While Nobara’s most viewed videos were all created over two years ago
As for how or why Bazzite succeeded in overtaking Nobara? I actually don’t know. Perhaps it’s simply because it happens to be closer to SteamOS[1] in design philosophy. Or, maybe its atomic/‘cloud-native’ (or whatever) nature makes it (somehow) more attractive to install for the crowd that (at least traditionally) never got into Linux.
FWIW -perhaps we may find the crux of the matter in here- if I had to pick a distro to use on my personal gaming rig, then I’d probs go for CachyOS[2] for its (ever-so-slightly) superior performance. But…, if I were to install a distro on the gaming rig of a new-Linux user, then I’d undoubtedly go for Bazzite instead.
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
Pft. I compile Gentoo for my GameCube, btw
Haha… No its not, but bazzite users really want it to be. :)
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! :)
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I’m on Aeon. Does that count?
Me too and I’m pretty sure it counts!
I
useam compiling Gentoo BTW
… I use Bazzite btw
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.I use TempleOS btw.
Excuse me, this is a Linux community, I’m afraid you’re going to have to leave.
/joke
Gaming like God intended
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.
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 :)
