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scala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m kinda in the same boat. I have an old gaming laptop that just barley didn’t make the win11 arbitrary cut. Not because it was below spec, it was way above. Just because it was too “old”. I installed Bazzite. But I do have a top tier premium gaming PC I built recently that’s still on Win11 with Dualboot with Bazzite.

Bazzite is great, but it still has the failure(maybe it’s not failure to you and me, but the average gamer) is that most stuff isn’t just, download .exe, run that .exe there are loops and frameworks that need to be installed through command lines. The average user will give up there really quickly.

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dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Haven’t used bazzite, but there is an App Store you can get all of the apps anyone would need.

No longer do we live in the days of visiting a vendors website to download their executables. They are conveniently packaged for us in the App Store (package manager).

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- NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Haven’t used bazzite, but there is an App Store you can get all of the apps anyone would need.
  
  Its one of the quirks of a lot of the atomic distros. Because they are specifically built around the idea of having a specific set of packages at a specific range of versions for every rev of the distro itself… adding more packages is kind of a clusterfuck.
  
  For flatpaks (and I think appimages too?), it is seamless. For anything else you are googling the commands to add packages as “layers” and so forth
  
  And, to be fair to Bazzite (which I use for my HTPC and love it on there), I have had zero issues with actual gaming. Steam out of the box and Heroic is one flatpak away. But holy shit was adding iperf3 to test some network infrastructure tweaks a Thing.
  
  Its why I personally recommend to friends to just raw dog Fedora rather than use one of the atomic distros. Atomic distros make a lot of sense for deployed machines but for anything someone is going to use as “their” computer? Just learn to not type sudo before every command you run… and maybe get a jetkvm so your tech savvy friend can fix your computer after an nvidia driver update.
  
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  - dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Its why I personally recommend to friends to just raw dog Fedora
    
    Probably sound advice if they are in (presumably) the 0.01% of users (like you) that need other utilities that are hard to get.
    
    If they aren’t, then Bazzite, etc would be perfect for them (as you said, zero issues with gaming/more common uses).
    
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NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Bazzite is great, but it still has the failure(maybe it’s not failure to you and me, but the average gamer) is that most stuff isn’t just, download .exe, run that .exe there are loops and frameworks that need to be installed through command line

Strong disagree on “most”

For the vast majority of users? Everything they need is in Steam and MAYBE Heroic, which is the same as on Windows.

In terms of non-gaming? I… have very strong Thoughts on atomic distros and the hoops Bazzite et al make you jump through with regard to layering and the like, but they are in Discover and the like. So “app store” experience.

I personally don’t think Bazzite is a good desktop OS (but I love it for my HTPC). But any of the user friendly distros (e.g. Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu) should be almost zero command line usage unless you have a reason to use it.

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- theparadox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering
  
  I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.
  
  It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.
  
  Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.
  
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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bazzite is a vehicle for Steam. If your basis for using it isn’t ‘gaming through Steam’, you’re already intentionally venturing into un-average lands.

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