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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I ended up with CachyOS over Bazzite but I'm looking into the latter for my dad since I'm guessing it's more stable and easier.
I just... Idk, I like Arch over Fedora. I blame the little pacman eating my progress whenever I install stuff in konsole. Desktop mode to desktop mode it's the same KDE Plasma I'd be using, though. Are there any other striking differences between Cachy and Bazzite?
Edit: it was good to bring it up here, y'all are very knowledgeable on these things. It sounds to me that I need to get bazzite for my dad mostly because he won't want to fuss or work on it and that I made the right call for myself since Cachy (and Arch in general) gives more flexibility. Frankly I might not even give him desktop mode default, he strictly wants something to play from bed in full on retirement mode.
AFAIK CachyOS still demands a little involvement in the OS. Like, you have to watch the logs when you update, you need keep context in mind, like knowing you're running KDE and an Nvidia card and so on. But I feel like Bazzite would be more usable to someone who doesn't know (and doesn't need to know) what a filesystem or a discrete GPU are.
But in terms of stability, CachyOS has been rock solid for me. The cadence that Arch + CachyOS devs fix stuff has been utterly perfect.
So I say if your dad is more 'software curious,' give him CachyOS. If he doesn't like messing with computer stuff, give him Bazzite.
It's unfortunate that years as a tech guy at his job has made him less software curious, so probably bazzite then. Rather, I guess when it's your job to fix things, tinkering isn't fun anymore.
I second this, it's why I went with Bazzite on my main rig - it just needs to work and be reliable. The last thing I want to be doing in my spare time is funking around trying to fix anything that happens to break.
All my other devices run whatever I feel like so I can scratch that curiosity-itch but they get reinstalled if anything major breaks and I can't fix it in a reasonable amount of time
Ah.
Well one catch I’ve found outside of CachyOS is that if something isn’t working right, it’s easy to create a ton of work for yourself trying to fix it. An example would be fighting your system trying to roll a package forward for a fix, which then gets out of sync with your distro, which requires more manual fixing since you’re the one maintaining it now…
The Arch/Cachy ecosystem, on the other hand, tends to encourage more usage of system packages, and fixes stuff quick. Usually waiting a day or a few days + a
pacman -Syyuufixes what was wrong.If your Dad is a software engineer, it’s possible he might fall into that trap with Bazzite. It kinda just depends on his habits/personality, though from what you describe this may not be a huge danger.
Him 20-30 years ago probably would have. This is a man who, when I was a kid, made a custom UI for msdos so my brother and I could play games easier. He wouldn't just tinker, he'd probably be contributing.
Old age and alcoholism has kind of robbed him of that, though. At this point he'll probably just ask me to fix it if it goes wrong, lol
I went from Arch to Fedora idk, I think over a decade ago and haven't looked back, not sure how things are nowadays, but I switched again this year from Fedora to Bazzite and I love it. Sure, you've got to learn to do things a little differently, but so far it's been great. And it forced me to use distrobox, which honestly I should have done sooner, it's absolutely great.
I'm in the same boat, my main gaming pc is still bazzite for now (I use it like a HTPC) but eventually when i can be bothered I'll be on cachy os as I've really enjoyed being able to use the arch-iness on my other devices that have it.
I’ve been using Fedora for while but I decided to try Bazzite and for the most part it’s been a great out of the box experience. I didn’t have to mess with NVidia and Wayland as much as I did with vanilla Fedora.
It is a little wonky compared to other distros. I don’t like the way some features are managed, but for a new non-Linux user, they won’t know the difference. I highly recommend it for people that just want to jump on Steam and go.
The problem with a new user is they need more documentation and more resources which atomic distros like bazzite have less of. Making them worse.
Bazzite is for knowledgeable users who don't want to tinker much anymore or children who aren't allowed to modify their computer.
Most people don't want to tinker. They just want a machine that works without hassle or need to think much about how everything works, or risk breaking something... But also without the bloat or the walled garden of Apple.
That’s a good point overall and definitely something to consider.
However, I don’t think it applies to Bazzite specifically because they’ve had such a meteoric growth rise in popularity over the last year. They have more resources to make that stuff.
But, I don’t think most people in modern hardware need to do much for Bazzite to get going. I think unless they want to play Windows games, they shouldn’t need to do anything weird.
Bazzite handled all the annoying setup for Wayland and the Nvidia drivers. Bazzite also manages the updates without a user needing to know how the terminal works. (I personally don’t like that, but it’s probably good for new users).
Bazzite also has fairly robust documentation, which is probably not the case for most Atomic Distros. They also have pretty decent support on social media and in their discord server.
Honestly it's pretty easy to decide if you should use cachy or bazzite.
Do you use your PC for anything more then office PC or console? If yes pick cachy. If no pick bazzite.
Atomic is great till you have to do fucking anything then it's more effort then it's worth basically instantly. And iv seen more people break bazzite trying to do basic shit then iv seen cachy randomly explode because "arch is unstable".
Bazzite is not a home user desktop os, no atomic os is. The entire concept is basically designed for locked down office PCs and consoles where you don't actually do anything with the PC but use it.
If your giving a PC to a elderly family member, a child, you do actual business on it that's mission critical. Bazzite is fucking fantastic, so long as you also never give the admin password to the user.
Seriously the entire atomic concept really is... Baffling tho... Its best use case is one that doesn't really exist in the same context as gaming unless it's a console. It's baffling that bazzite is as popular as it is. If not for the simple fact there is an absurd amount of misinformation around arch and really Linux in general.
Because people cling to out of date knowledge from a decade ago because of memes.
Really 9 times out of 10 normal fedora is better for most avg users then cachy or bazzite.
I think the most important advice is to use a separate disk/SSD for your home directory so if you screw something up or if you want to change directions, you don’t lose your files. Some of my vendor contracts actively require that I do just this.
I'm no expert but I didn't have any trouble compiling and running a native Linux FPS game in an Arch distrobox on bazzite to test a bugfix.
I'm just good enough with Linux to know my way around and to break stuff when I have unfettered access to mess with the base system. Bazzite saves me from myself.
HTPCs are why bazzite is as popular as it is
handhelds are really great with it too. i use it on my main pc tho because bazzite-dx simplifies a lot for me
If someone has to try and break into Bazzite to do anything (if they're not a developer) then they're doing something very wrong.
What the hell were they even trying to do!?