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Anyone been daily driving Bazzite?
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Bazzite is a good HTPC or living room gaming distro. It is not an ideal all purpose desktop distro, just like a Steam Deck is not an ideal all purpose desktop system.
If you want a Bazzite-like experience that is better suited for the desktop then use Fedora Silverblue, which is what Bazzite/ublue builds upon.
I do all my Linux kernel development, and especially compilation, on my steam deck.
Why is it not ideal as an all purpose desktop distro? I'm using it over ublue/Fedora for the convenience of being able to be play many games without tinkering, but I seldom play, I mostly work as a web developer. Bazzite has been great for me, so I'm wondering why you say this.
Bazzite, as a gaming-first distribution, makes some choices that are acceptable for such a platform, but that I believe are unacceptable in a secure development environment. This is why I wrote "not ideal" instead of "bad". If you don't care about security then it's perfectly cromulent. But I value security, so I would not recommend it.
Fair enough! I don't know enough to judge that. I'm learning each day, though :) are these choices bazzite or do they come from ublue?
I'm using it for work/gaming/general use and I don't think I have issues that aren't present on silverblue. Steam deck is definitely limited (AFAIK, it's not possible to print and can have persistent layers), so it's definitely a bigger issue