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

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    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!

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      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…

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        Being able to install it yourself on any device seems like a big advantage :P

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          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 😅

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            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.)

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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    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]

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    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)

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      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?

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    I’m one. I set up a Windows/bazzite dual boot situation and I’ve never booted windows since.

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      what’s bazzite like? might experiment with it when I get my caseless frankenstein floor computer to work lol

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        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”.

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        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).

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    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

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    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

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    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.

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      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.