https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg
Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.
Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive
In my mother language, kinoite sounds like “what a night”, ans I can’t read it without some giggling >.<
Also, TIL that kinoite is a mineral
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I’m in this picture. Installed bazzite on steam deck and it’s fucking awesome!
What does it do better than SteamOS on the Steam Deck itself?
Genuinely asking as I didn’t really see any need to switch even as the compulsive tinkerer that I am…
Being able to install it yourself on any device seems like a big advantage :P
Got it, thank you.
I don’t have any device, I specifically own a Steam deck and if that’s the main benefit, I probably don’t want it on my other devices (I use Arch, btw).
Should’ve added “on the Steam Deck” in the first place, sorry 😅
Haha yeah, I’m not super up-to-date on Bazzite, but I believe it doesn’t add much on a Steam deck. (And if you don’t want your other devices to boot up into Steam, you probably don’t want it there either.)
Generally no… Cachyos steam deck version is better in basically every test iv seen them compared head to head in.
Bazzite is more or less the default choice cause it’s a flavor of the month more then it makes any kind of actual sense.
If your going to bazzite your typically better off staying on the stock OS.
Have you seen comparisons between SteamOS and CachyOS? Since we established Bazzite is probably inferior on the Steam Deck when I only want to play games, I wonder if I’d gain anything with CachyOS, which seems to be more like the Arch I usually use.
bringus studios referense??///?
I’m not wild about it for desktop, but I did convert a laptop into a gaming PC for the living room (for lighter titles). I went with Bazzite for the Steam-deck like features and it has been great.
Wikipedia: 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.[5][6][7][8] Bazzite is named after the mineral of the same name, as Fedora Atomic Desktops historically had used a mineral naming scheme.[9] It aims to deliver a seamless out-of-the-box experience for both casual and advanced Linux gamers.[10]
im in that chart! i just built my wife a gaming PC, she is not a PC person and knows exactly nothing about linux as a whole, but she loves her steamdeck and bazzite means she never has to worry about opening a terminal (or even the desktop if she doesnt want to)
Excuse my ignorance. I know nothing about this stuff. Aren’t Steamdeck and Bazzite completely unrelated things? Or is Bazzite something that you install on Steamdeck? Your comment confused me.
Bonus question: what would be a good piece of used hardware to install Bazzite on? Could I install it on an older MS Surface for example?
not at all! SteamOS and Bazzite are pretty fundamentally different on the back end (one is arch, one is fedora) but on the front end, they both launch into steam big picture mode, and offer a KDE desktop you can switch to.
steamOS is available for download as a beta, but it is still a very handheld focused distro and does not include simple QOL things like print drivers, it struggles with things like wake from sleep, but it’s fairly stable and pretty usable
bazzite is a little more refined and a little more fully fleshed out, it includes more packages and drivers and is better suited as a ‘daily driver’ os
both are immutable distros, meaning you can’t really install stuff outside of the official app store/repository and a lot of terminal commands wont work out of the box. this means there are ‘nannies’ to make sure you don’t effectively softlock your os by running random terminal commands that chatbot told you were a good idea while troubleshooting.
the primary focus of these distros is gaming, so they are optimized for speed, performance, and compatibility with steam/lutris, and putting up safety rails to make sure you dont nuke yourself.
distros like cachyOS and nobara have the same focus, but do not have the nannies, so you can sudo whatever you want (but remember, #3 with great power comes great responsibility). its gaming focused, but meant for more confident power users.
in terms of what to install it on… linux loves team red, and redder the better! everything AMD is always going to work best, an intel cpu is going to work as poorly (hot and slow) on linux as it does on windows, but amd GPU is always preferred for any linux builds. ive never had a microsoft surface to mess around with, but youtube suggests there are lots of options for installing linux on a surface (although i dont know what hoops you have to jump trough… but if youre interested in linux, then jumping through hoops should be second nature to you lol)
I’m one. I set up a Windows/bazzite dual boot situation and I’ve never booted windows since.
what’s bazzite like? might experiment with it when I get my caseless frankenstein floor computer to work lol
Someone else could explain better than me I’m sure but, it’s a Linux distro that is gaming focused. It comes pre-loaded with steam and video card drivers so that someone has a decent chance that their games will just “work”.
will probably try when I get a case for my computer!
think steamos with all of it’s goodies (and more bazzite-exclusive features), but on a more standardised linux base so you can run it on any pc and handheld, not just the steam deck. bazzite is also just as unbreakable as steamos, since it is an immutable (read-only system files) os, and updates the same way as a phone does (downloads an update in the background, and uses it on next boot with a rollback option in the super rare event that it breaks something).
that’s sweet, will probably try it!
hell yeah! linux for the win! I’m working on a computer and might try that one out when I get it to work. hopefully the hdd isn’t dead
It’s amazing. Everything works perfectly, all my favorite games run smooth and gnome is amazing.
I left Linux 10 years ago because I didn’t have the time to maintain a system.
Now it’s less work than Windows to set everything up
buy, buy, BUY!
What I would like to know is what data they use as a reference to produce that graph and whether that data can be audited.
Probably data from their Bazaar or I heard some other Fedora tool. I believe the growth, its actually good and not in a gimmicky way.
I installed Aurora today. My first immutable experience.
GG
Many had cool presents it seems 🤭
