• stuner@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Upstream, the Fedora KDE Plasma edition is also doing well. Nice to see that within the first release after promotion to a full edition.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been on Linux for a bit. I was fedora for a long time and it’s totally fine but I tried out Bazzite for gaming and it’s been really good experience. I like tinkering but I never played as much game time because I was tinker with it. Now it mostly just work and that’s awesome.

    There are a few things I don’t like about Bazzite, like ujust for example, but it’s still worth it to me.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m a long-time Mint guy, my current desktop is Fedora KDE because Wayland, and I’m looking at Bazzite for my old computer/HTPC but it doesn’t support my old GTX-1080 GPU, I might get a low-tier Radeon for it (I don’t want to buy an Intel card and fuck Nvidia’s butt, that GTX-1080 was literally the only GPU available to me in 2020).

    • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      If anyone likes Bazzite but doesn’t want the immutability, Garuda is also gamer focused and easy.

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Garuda is great. I tried Bazzite on my nvidia based laptop and had problems getting it to work well (to be fair to Bazzite, this was well over a year ago when Bazzite was very new on the scene - I have no idea if i’d have the same problems today). Replaced it with Garuda (which I had been running on my desktop) and it literally “just worked”. And, frankly, I’m a linux idiot. I basically just read the messages that pop up occasionally and do my best to do things like they say (for example, I try to remember to run updates before the system has to tell me “hey, it’s been a bit. Would be best if you would update me soon”).

        Speaking of being an idiot… I don’t even know if I HAVE to download the “dragonized” version to get all the gaming bells and whistles just as easily, or if I can use their KDE plasma version that doesn’t have all the theming and still get the “gaming” tweaks? Since my system works, I don’t want to install a new version just to find out, but I feel like I could convince other people to try it more if they got the same functional experience without all the purple glowing stuff out of the box.

        • mrcleanup@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I use the xfce version and it’s pretty bare bones. Other than a background image I replaced, it didn’t have any annoying UI stuff in it. It still runs all the gaming stuff just fine out of the box.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Lemmy has a similar number of active users and makes about 3K . That money would be good for the ecosystem and could help fund upstream projects (I am sure wine could use the money for example). But they will have to use fundraising methods similar to lemmy to reach that number (popup, good message etc)

    The donate page is kinda a mess IMO to be honest. There should be one organisation to donate to otherwise this creates overchoice.

  • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    anyone have experience with bazzite and mint, with a focus toward gaming? The box i want to try on, i have been procrastinating hooking up and dealing with the contents (it was my dad’s work computer and i’m the only family member with professional ethical requirements relating to confidentiality so it went to me)

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      Bazzite didn’t work for me out of the box (I wanted to see if it being ‘gaming focused’ had any positives), and what tinkering I could do didn’t fix the steam gaming. I went back to an arch-based distro and haven’t had any problems.

    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      I use mint for gaming and general use and I havent had issues. However I dont really play AAA+ games, mostly older games.

  • notarobot@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Man. Props to the team. At least from my perspective (I’m not into distro hoping anymore) they came out of nowhere and people absolutely loved them. I should give them a test on a VM, specially since I’ve been recommending against them because I didn’t think they are a good fit for llinux newcomers

  • bonusss@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    I thought it was just my YouTube algorithm showing me install bazzite. Hehe guess there was a trend

    • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 months ago

      I think its hitting a critical mass, that much upward growth is very encouraging to see. I was able to convince a handful of friends to switch to linux due to windows getting so bad, they liked the extremely simple approach Bazzite has. I think its better than Mint in this regard, Fedora has come such a long way.

        • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
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          2 months ago

          It’s image based, so it’s very hard for a beginner to fuck it up, and if they do its one or two lines of commands to fix 99% of the time.

          eg rpm-ostree rebase or rpm-ostree reset

        • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 months ago

          The immutability is the main difference. If something gets messed up, on boot you simply change to the previous image and you’re back up and running again.

            • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              2 months ago

              Two editions, the current one and previous one, I believe

              And the space hog is like a few gigabytes. I think that’s well worth it for a beginner when it means that in the worst case you can always roll back when we have like terabytes of space

          • WereCat@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            I keep seeing people saying this but realistically how many new users had to do that? IMO, it’s just the fact that Bazzite has pretty much everything you need out of the box.

  • Archer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Booted up Bazzite and everything just worked except League of Legends anticheat and Linux SteamVR. Supposedly SteamVR got patched. So League is the last thing keeping me on Windows 11. Could probably boot to Win11 as needed anytime I want to though

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    This is a Linux disteo focused on gaming.

    In the future, please say what the project is for when you post about it.

    • buttnugget@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I was also wondering what the fuck this is. From the Wikipedia introductory paragraph:

      Bazzite is a Fedora-based[1] Linux distribution designed to be similar to Valve’s SteamOS 3 while still functioning as a normal computer.[2][3][4] It offers support for handheld PC devices, including the Steam Deck.

      • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        while still functioning as a normal computer

        Reminds me of when a school instructor walked by and looked at my laptop and he’s like “whoa what is that” (I had Firefox running) and I said it was Linux and he was like “whoa I didn’t know Linux could do that”

        ???

  • tlmcleod@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    What happened the 3rd week of April? Fedora got a massive spike there. The other one has a small bump at that time as well

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I did my first fedora atomic install yesterday. I’m doing my part!

  • Admetus@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    Started my EndeavoursOS gaming PC. Oh no, my new-Steam lists the game as windows only?

    Proceeds to install proton and related software and bam, I can game.

    I know it’s not Bazzite but there is sure as hell little reason not to use Linux any more except for enterprise computers and laptops.

    • phar@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Steam installs proton on its own when you just click the button insettings so you don’t even need to install proton. Just works