One of the best gaming Linux OSes just shifted 1,000,000 GB of ISOs in a single month
www.xda-developers.com
That's a lot of downloading.

Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

    • Aquatic_Melon@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 hour ago

      As someone who has gone from windows to mint, what is wrong with it? So far I have 0 issues and can run all the games I want. What am I missing out on?

      • SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        1 hour ago

        It’s very stable, but outdated imo, especially its default desktop environnement. Kinda makes linux look like a weird old windows clone, while other desktops can be very modern and way prettier than Windows

        • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
          3·
          21 minutes ago

          I like bazzite-kde because it’s similar to windows. Gnome bothered me - in particular not being able to set a blank desktop easily.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      44 minutes ago

      Along with what others have said about it being a great ootb experience for anyone looking to play games. It is also immutable so you can’t fuck it up too easily. And the very popular YouTube channel gamers nexus has started doing their Linux testing exclusively on bazzite. I think the latter is playing one of the biggest parts, while the previous two points are specifically why they choose bazzite.

    • theparadox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      29 minutes ago

      As I understand it, it’s atomic Fedora with virtually everything you might need to game on Linux baked in (no need for layering) and more or less preconfigured. Off the top of my head, proprietary Nvidia drivers, Steam, Lutris, Hero launcher, support for Xbox One wireless controller dongle, plus a number of useful tools like Tailscale. An app with a catered list of gaming-oriented flatpacks, one click updating. Also a lot of effort into replicating the Steam Deck experience for handheld devices or devices connected to a TV.

      I believe they also do Aurora, which is similarly geared toward workstations with a ton of container-related tools like distro box readily available to easily use containers instead of layering where possible. The same tools may be available in Bazzite but I never checked. I have Aurora on my laptop and use a dedicated gaming device with Bazzite.

      I’m not a Linux veteran by any means but I was hopping distros looking for something I could install on my family’s computers I tried atomic Fedora. When using it for myself, I became frustrated with the number of tools I use that needed to be layered or run in a container and eventually found myself on Bazzite and Aurora. So far so good.

    • onlooker@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 hours ago

      Besides the reasons others mentioned, it’s also popular as an OS for gaming handhelds, like the Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS Ally X and what have you.

    • truite@jlai.lu
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Imagine you like video games. You install Bazzite. You have Steam, with only a little checkbox (to allow playing on linux). It works, you can play, you have a “playstore” if you need something. You have really little to do if you don’t go outside Steam and the playstore.

  • Pechente@feddit.org
    14·
    5 hours ago

    I‘m one of them. I already only used Windows for gaming and seeing where this OS is going, made me try Linux again and this time might be the first time I might stick with it, thanks to Bazzite.

    Games run incredibly well and compatibility is surprisingly good at this point. The only exception are games with invasive anti-cheat like the new Battlefield. But I guess it’s just a pro that I won’t buy a game that essentially has malware included with it.

    • jimerson@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 hours ago

      If it’s doing what you need it to do, no reason to rock that boat! It is fun to try out other distros without distro hopping, just to see what’s out there. That’s what a good thumb drive is for!

  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Aurora sitting down there at the bottom of the desktop OSs. I’d love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.

    If you’re not aware, switching between different Universal Blue OSs is super easy, with one caveat. Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.

        • j0rge@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Bluefin comaintainer here. The metrics are flathub and app developer donations, not the base image. You spread the love when you install a flatpak or buy a linux game and make those numbers go up.

          The idea that the base OS is important isn’t a thing, the only way to fix the economics of the linux desktop is to focus on applications, not distros.

    • Günther Unlustig 🍄@slrpnk.net
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.

      I did that a few times already on different installs and never had any problems, besides the window decorations/ theming being off and needing to set them again. What issues could be expected?

      • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 hours ago

        On atomic systems like Bazzite and the universal blues, getting rid of the old files from the previous DE can be a huge hassle. On normal systems it’s a lot easier

        • j0rge@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 hours ago

          The dotfiles between GNOME and KDE are the same, the base image doesn’t matter, if you try to switch DE’s on old distros you have the same problem.

          • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Right. But cleaning up the old files left over from swapping your DE is much easier if you actually have read and write access to those files. When you swap DEs, it’s gonna leave shit behind whether you’re atomic or not. But atomic systems have more barriers to cleaning them up, to prevent the user from accidentally cleaning the wrong things.

  • bier@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    60·
    14 hours ago

    Traffic cost must be insane. Hope they have good hosting and won’t be paying through the nose and go broke.

    • Mora@pawb.social
      44·
      13 hours ago

      Should be manageable and it is probably less than you would imagine. Just checked real quick: the isos load from download.bazzite.gg, which is a Cloudflare IP. So they are either using it as CDN or even more likely use Cloudflares R2 storage for isos - which would mean they pay for storage (~15$/TB) and operations, but not for egress. This is seems ideal for few but huge files.

      So for a single iso (~7 GB) they would pay 0,105$ for storage monthly and additionally 0,36$ per million of class B operations (reads/downloads). Of course they host more than one ISO, but for this example it would have been downloaded about ~150000 times to reach the petabyte.

      So yeah, the ISO download is probably less of a problem. (Disclaimer: lot of assumptions, check in with a bazzite dev for clarity)

      • turdas@suppo.fi
        10·
        13 hours ago

        Doesn’t $0.36 times 150,000 downloads come out to 54 thousand dollars, which is a lot of money?

        • Mora@pawb.social
          22·
          13 hours ago

          Sorry, my bad. 0,36$ per million class b operations. Of course there will be slightly more operations than downloads (e.g. people/bots sarting downloads and aborting them), but still probably cheap.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      20·
      13 hours ago

      I’m surprised they don’t have torrent downloads for it. That would save on bandwidth costs and it’s more reliable since torrent clients verify the checksum and automatically redownload any corrupted blocks.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    7·
    9 hours ago

    I’m doing my part.

    I set up bazzite in a VM and passed my GPU thru it.

    Now I’ve got a nuc clone in my office with bazzite on it as well and it’s just a moonlight client. But it’s silent. Or damn close. The GPU is two floors away, I hear nothing!

    That was two separate downloads, too…Nvidia-gnone and gnome-standard.

    I was on Nobara a couple months ago and liked it…but a colleague piqued my interest on immutable distros and now here I am.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    36·
    14 hours ago

    Bazzite is great. I wish I’d tried it sooner. It is great for a “steam machine” or just as a very stable regular desktop.

    • anon5621@lemmy.ml
      20·
      14 hours ago

      For general user maybe but honestly I would prefer kinoite ,I don’t like bazzite replacing all their apps with gtk4 libadwaita while KDE written in qt apps looks much better that’s why I switched to kinoite

        • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
          1·
          13 minutes ago

          Yes but they force you to use GTK apps by default for the core apps.

          They even replaced Discover with Bazaar where you can’t see certain package types (like mangohud) and have to install them manually, can’t browse by category and just get “selected” games shoved in your phase, as well as getting no update notifications and it will silently fail sometimes in the background with no notifications or messages.

        • crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          I spent a little bit deciding between Bazzite and Kinoite when I got my PC and ultimately went with Kinoite since I still have some work stuff to do every now and then. Not a single issue on my end so far.