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https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Very easy with podman / quadlets

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This. If you must have rooted containers docker-compose is only a

rpm-ostree install docker-compose

away, but that's a big ass layer, you'll feel it every update, and insecure to boot (yes I know docker finally got userspace, but how many times have you seen it used? Everywhere it's root.). Run your docker-compose file through podlet, and there you go, userspace quadlets (95+% of the time, every time...). They're easy to love once you get your head around them.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, this is the "fun" of bazite. If you want to do the things it does well (desktopy things) it works well. But then things that are trivial in other distros are a pain. And the "solution" is to actually run one of those other distros in a container. It's ridiculous.

Bazite is for people who want a computer to be like an iPhone near as I can tell.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think you as yet don't quite understand the full beauty of immutable distros. Running things in distroboxes, yeah even other distros, is not a bug, it's a feature (really) because you cannot break your main OS with a distrobox. As a developer it's a godsend, finnicky AI project that needs a specific version of python and CUDA drivers and only has instructions for Arch ? That's a distrobox, spin it up, play with it, archive it for later, put it away.

There's tiers in Bazzite, for GUI apps, flatpak, if what you want isn't there, it's in a distrobox Arch in AUR and you can integrate it as an application into the main OS. Stuff that truly needs system level access, like zsh and intel-undervolt gets layered into the main OS with rpm-ostree. There's security benefits as well like SELinux, but this post has gone on long enough.

It is so not an iPhone.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

Distrobox is not a feature of immutable distros. It runs just fine on Debian. As does flatpak.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 weeks ago

Duh, but it shines in immutable. Enjoy your debian, I like it too, for servers.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

It "shines"? It's the same thing.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's not a pain, it's just a different process than what you're used to

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

It’s not a pain, it’s just a different process than what you’re used to

That's exactly how people defend something that is a pain.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think you've got it backwards. You're describing what's a pretty simple process, as a pain.

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