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Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

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[–] 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Bazzite is great. I wish I'd tried it sooner. It is great for a "steam machine" or just as a very stable regular desktop.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    For general user maybe but honestly I would prefer kinoite ,I don't like bazzite replacing all their apps with gtk4 libadwaita while KDE written in qt apps looks much better that's why I switched to kinoite

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Kinoite is also great and usually what I recommend someone coming from Windows who wants a distro that "Just works".

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    i like it too, but the ublue scripts are extremely handy so i hate leaving anything ublue

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Can you explain more? What are ublue scripts and what makes them so handy? I'm still new to this space.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I spent a little bit deciding between Bazzite and Kinoite when I got my PC and ultimately went with Kinoite since I still have some work stuff to do every now and then. Not a single issue on my end so far.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You can install Bazzite with KDE also if I'm not mistaken

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yes but they force you to use GTK apps by default for the core apps.

    They even replaced Discover with Bazaar where you can't see certain package types (like mangohud) and have to install them manually, can't browse by category and just get "selected" games shoved in your phase, as well as getting no update notifications and it will silently fail sometimes in the background with no notifications or messages.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Bazaar has the best search by far, try them all, youll actually find stuff using bazaar, like fps will actually show all the fps, the rest wont, tried them all trying to find the best appstore

    The first thing I noticed was how bad the search was on kde and gnome for the software stores.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    By "core apps", you mean literally only two applications.

    The terminal is replaced with one that has a container workflow because that is the recommended and expected workflow for anyone working in a terminal.

    The store is replaced with Bazaar because it is the only one that is even trying to provide a good flathub experience.

    That's it. Everything else is stock KDE.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    My understanding is that one of the upsides to Bazzite is that Nvidia drivers are pretty easy to install and manage. That was the thing that turned me off of Fedora when I tried making the switch to that a couple years ago.

    Is that easy to do in Kinoite? This is the first I’ve heard of it, and it sounds like exactly what I would want out of Bazzite.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They're so easy to install that you don't have to, it's built in

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What about steamOS for a steam machine that has all AMD hardware so Nvidia drivers will not be an issue.

    I'm building an htpc that will never be used in desktop mode just couch gaming used by kids too. Still trying to decide which os to go with.

    Just want to know what the downsides if any of installing SteamOS if I just want valve to handle it for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    To my knowledge Bazzite is basically SteamOS with more flexibility under the hood if you're looking for it. By default it boots right into big picture mode. I imagine if you get an HDMI-CEC dongle it would work great as an HTPC once you get Big Picture set up with the streaming apps.

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