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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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[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days 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.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours 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.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 days ago

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

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

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

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