cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/27451562

Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven’t looked back.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    21 hours ago

    I’m really happy to see Bazzite climbing the chart. It’s by far the best gaming-centric Linux distro.

    I’m not sure I will ever understand the appeal of Linux Mint. Not because it’s bad, but because there are better distros for every use-case I can think up, especially gaming.

    • afaix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      14 hours ago

      What would be better for desktop use? It’s simple, with wizards and help for setting up almost everything, has support for all the ubuntu stuff like ppas and deb packages so if there is a linux package for some software you are usually covered, and it also doesn’t restrict you from doing whatever you want, so you can change it to your liking (and at least there is a stable base that you start changes from)

    • 474D@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      19 hours ago

      Mint is very plain and simple, which makes it the most non-threatening transition from Windows for casual users. It’s also one of the most well rounded distros. Sure, other distros can do specific things better, but Mint deserves its flowers for its polish.

      • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Mint feels a little sloppy, though.

        I would much rather suggest Bluefin, which is from the same group as Bazzite. And if you are a fan of KDE (or a more Windows-like UI), then Aurora is an excellent one, too.

        They are all atomic, so users can’t really mess them up.

        • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          11 minutes ago

          Bazzite > Bluefin > Aurora in usership from what I’ve seen. I started on Bazzite KDE but ended up staying with Aurora.

      • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        18 hours ago

        Yeah, bazzite, or any atomic distro, is not something I would recommend to someone coming from windows. It’s just too different in some ways.

        Been running bazzite myself as a fairly experienced linux user and love it though.

        • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
          3·
          7 hours ago

          I think it would actually be better for beginners, were it not for issue solving: any web search for a solution is bound to give you mostly answers written for traditional distros, which would potentially be incompatible with Bazzite.