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Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[-] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 months ago

Wild that people are concerned when Bazzite has a completely different underlying toolset vs SteamOS.

Want arch? SteamOS Want fedora? Bazzite

Tbh Bazzite has an important role going forward: pointing out any bad decisions by valve and offering an off-ramp if valve enshittifies.

[-] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Bazzite is what got me started on fedora and so so far so good on 3 gaming machines. Using kinoite on a thin client to run Kodi for TV viewing

I've about had enough of mint on the gaming laptop and am obviously considering slapping bazzite on that one also, but nix or endeavour sound like pro-style shit, so I'm also considering them!

[-] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I'm on endeavour for my devices, def a solid option!

I like what the mint team does on their end but I'm over Ubuntu. If mint shifts their base to debian I'll consider it again.

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is Mint [https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php](Debian Edition) if you're interested. Lacks some of the homegrown tools of the main edition last I checked, but it's there for those who want it.

Edit: Not sure why my link isn't displaying correctly. If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd appreciate it, since I've tried it on Thunder on Android as well as in Librewolf on PC.

[-] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

That's it, thanks. The Markdown to make it part of the comment just isn't working for me for some reason.

[-] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Absolutely, it's a good move. I've been recommending that to friends who are hesitant to branch out of Debian and are over Ubuntu.

I'm hoping mint eventually makes LMDE their default. Tho until then, even just a baseline install of Debian is easy enough these days.

[-] dai@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Nix is a scary place...

Join us.

Honestly became obsessed with NixOS last year and haven't turned back, I'm not much into the gaming side of things these days but installing steam and running a few games has never been easier.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

I don't even care that it's Fedora. If I wanted to confine my-self to Steam's supported hardware, I would buy another console. Bazzite does what Steam should have been doing, and better at that.

[-] AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not gonna lie, I support both SteamOS provides a "plug and play" almost windows-like experience for end users. It isn't technical, which makes perfect for the average "I just wanna game and sometimes do other stuff like YouTube"

While Bazzite actually gives you more flexibility for when you still do Gaming but focuses on other stuff(eg. Coding, GameDev, work stuff, etc) Bazzite fills in a important gap that SteamOS leaves behind and, actually benefits SteamOS for not needing to cover that spot

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 2 months ago

Has a distro ever gone under purely because of competition?

[-] ebuttonsdude@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago

Pretty different systems, bazzite is based on ublue and uses an image based system for it's immutability. You can add packages by building additional layers where steamos immutable only lets you modify the user space with changes that persist over updates. That makes Bazzite and other ublue distributions much more flexible for things other than just gaming.

For example, I love to use my bazzite steam deck for RTL-SDR radio and that needs a driver installed as a system package :)

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