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Here is Fedora's upstream graph to compare:
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. 🧓
It's too bad that we're holding a gun to your head to make you switch. 😔🔫
😱 😢
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?
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
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.
you’re overestimating the “IT folk”.
I wish! There's no way companies will move away from teams one drive and SharePoint , they love it
The IT folk doesn't have any power in big companies. They get told what to install by higher management. And higher management usually knows fuckall about computers but does listen to consultants and fancy buzzwords which is something Microsoft is insanely good at.
Must be an American company? In the EU shops i visit, even citrix is Boeing replaced with web based linux environments.
5k users down 999,995k left to go!
Mind you that's only Bazzite, Zorin has been making large gains as well.
5k in 2 months isn’t a lot.
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?
This is a Linux distro focused on gaming.
In the future, please say what the project is for when you post about it.
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.
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"
???
In this case they are clarifying that it isn't just a handheld device OS, it is a full desktop OS.
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.
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.
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.
If anyone likes Bazzite but doesn't want the immutability, Garuda is also gamer focused and easy.
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.
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.
I hadn’t heard of Garuda before! I’ll check it out!
The amount of stuff i read about it ,i'd thought 30 Million! Lot of noise about it out there.
I too was surprise to read the actual number being so low considering how much it's talked about. I never really saw the appeal as steam is pretty easy to get set up and running on any mainstream Linux distro with little fuss, but I recognize it was set up for newbies who want an gaming ready experience. It's an interesting project regardless.
I read Brazzite as Brazzers 😅
Mate I think you misread it again.
Time to clean your keyboard.
Is bazzite better than Steam OS?
For all intents and purposes it is Steam OS.
I thought it was just my YouTube algorithm showing me install bazzite. Hehe guess there was a trend
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.
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.
Upstream, the Fedora KDE Plasma edition is also doing well. Nice to see that within the first release after promotion to a full edition.
