• dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 months ago

    Bazzite is absolutely great, if you just want a very reliable system that just works and goes out of your way. I lean nowadays way more into recommending Bazzite to new Linux users, since there is literally not much to initially set up, no matter the hardware. Gaming works perfectly fine and any regular users software needs get easily satisfied by the Bazaar.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      I am too much of a tinkerer for Bazzite, but it’s still the distro I recommend the most for new users. If they decide they need more freedom, then Fedora KDE is the next step I recommend.

      Most Windows expats should be completely happy with Bazzite.

      • dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        I see what you mean. Sometimes I wish I could tinker with it the same way as I was used to with Arch. But in the end, it just works and goes out of my way.

    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Absolutely. I switched to Bazzite and it is everything I wanted from the switch. So painless. I have yet to find a game I want to play that wont play. Ive been using it for all my normal computer tasks. Its been the best transition to linux I’ve experienced as ive tried in the past but always hit some sort of snag

      • unphazed@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        It’s wrird that I can play Portal 2 via Proton but Portal 2 mods crash. Also, Doom Eternal works but not via Steamlink.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      61·
      3 months ago

      It might be beginner friendly, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do pretty much anything else you’d want to do on any other distro. It’s just a different process.

      • valter@lemmy.world
        112·
        3 months ago

        Agreed. I’m a software dev and I also have a ton of weird and niche hobbies I use my PC for and I’ve never run into anything I felt like Bazzite prevented me from doing. Even if they didn’t offer the super convenient developer edition.

        For example, the immutable root partition doesn’t stop me from adding udev rules in /etc.

        In fact, DistroBox gives me the freedom to use any package from any distro I want, including the Arch AUR.

        Anyone who says Bazzite is “too limiting” doesn’t understand how it actually works.

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’ve been using it for 3mo now. Mostly no issues, except for installing packages without flatpak, and also the weird random slowdown to freeze (I’m assuming memory management?) I mostly use my machine for learning freecad, watxhing jellyfin, using a browser, and playing Genshin (relaxing to play while people bitch at me on my phone job)

        • unphazed@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          Just years ago with Xubuntu. It may just be my use case. Seems to happen with WINE related stuff mostly, and I usually after days running. Once a week restart isn’t too painful.

      • brennesel@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        3 months ago

        I also installed it on two machines now and really like it. But I have exactly the same freezing issues. I already increased my zram swap to 8GB (having 32GB RAM), but long running idle games still freeze the whole system after a while. Could be a memory leak. I also tried to tweak the config so that applications are automatically closed when on low RAM, but that still didn’t help yet.

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    Let’s see, Microsoft kills 10, which nobody really loved but they were willing to tolerate. Microsoft insists they move to 11, which is universally reviled.

    Gamers predictably say “fuck this” and install the first gaming-oriented alternative to windows 11 they can find on Bing, and then this happens.

    Has Microsoft realized the Intel-level deep shit they are in yet?

    • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      201·
      3 months ago

      Microsoft doesn’t actually care because most of their revenue is from corporate environments tied to the OS and their cloud offerings. Everyday users are nothing to them, which is why they don’t try harder to keep you from using unactivated copies of windows. You are nothing

      • Mark@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        Right up until these new Linux users start demanding linux at work as well. And IT folk will be more then happy to supply them.

        No I truly think Microsoft is slowly losing the OS market.

        Let me put it this way: if you had to start fresh. New company. Would you default to using windows? The fact that many are hesitant after that question, shows you Microsoft is losing.

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        Not if we look at it as linear growth. But in the environment we are in, this has the potential to be exponential growth.

        Remember when Intel intentionally ignored the mobile market?

    • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I think it may be dawning on them. I’m on an international holiday & didn’t get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I’d looked I’m sure ESU was for businesses only.

      https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates

      The bit that made me laugh was: “ESU enrollment does not provide other types of fixes, feature improvements, or product enhancements.” Phew!

      I’ll crack on with upgrading to Linux when I get home, nice little winter project.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Gonna install CachyOS tomorrow.

    I know I’m late but …

    spoiler

    It took me a while to backup all my game saves and memes from Windows 10 because Proton Drive limits you to 2GB unless you pay and if you don’t pay your subscription they delete your email address. Could’ve gone with another provider but I was due for a spring cleaning anyway.

    I was also trying to get through my Itch library to save me the hassle of figuring out how to work Lutris but then the Steam Next Fest came and I gave up on clearing my backlog since I have a hard deadline of the next Steam Hardware Survey.

    • bruce965@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      Perhaps a bit unconventional, but CloudFlare R2 gives 10GB of free storage accessible as S3 with rclone.

      • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        I know I have other options, Google Drive for example, I just didn’t want to use anything new so I did things the hard way.

  • ErrorCode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    I am one of them! Converted my main machine this weekend. The worst problem I have had is getting the settings right for a Jellyfin container. Got all my games running, even City of Heroes (using Wine / Lutris). Takes a little getting used to when I have mostly used Debian-based distros in the past.

  • stuner@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 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.

  • procapra@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 months ago

    I so badly want to do the “old man yells at cloud” meme and be angry that Bazzite is so popular.

    I want to do it, I’m resisting hnnnngg

    Atomic bad because different and I don’t like things that are different. 🧓

  • Archer@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 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

  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 months ago

    I started trying out Bazzite yesterday and it’s been great so far! HDR is not as simple to get working as their marketing would make you think, but once you know what to do it’s not so bad.

    Al’s I’m having trouble getting OpenRGB working correctly.

    But other than that it’s been pretty good. It’s harder to tweak than Ubuntu (what I was previously using) but works much much better out of the box.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 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.

  • tlmcleod@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 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

  • unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    3 months ago

    Question for all Bazzite/Aurora users: what do you use to make backups of your machine?

    I’m using Pikabackup to make backups of /home, but I’m not sure if there’s a better way?

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      3 months ago

      I don’t currently backup /home.

      You def don’t need to backup anything on the OS drive since rollbacks are built into the system and it initializes every time you boot.

      • unlawfulbooger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t really need to backup the system, except for a list of installed software, but I guess that’s all included somewhere in ~/.local or whatever, since it’s flatpak homebrew and steam.