• dingleberrylover@lemmy.world
    25·
    6 days 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·
      6 days 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·
        6 days 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·
      6 days 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·
        5 days ago

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

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days 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)

      • brennesel@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        5 days 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.

        • unphazed@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days 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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      0·
      6 days 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
        1·
        6 days 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.