Bazzite promotes itself as a “gaming” Linux OS, but it works fine as a solid desktop that is practically impossible to break, it quietly self-updates, and it has a slick “app store”. You can literally just install and forget.
The only issues that will cause you problems is if you need some specific proprietary software like MS Office or Photoshop, or a game with kernel-level anticheat.
I quit Linux distro-hopping for 2 years because I got tired of messing with my system and just wanted to be able to boot reliably and get business done, then with windows 10 I moved back to Bazzite/Universal Blue/Fedora Atomic and stayed since. I use Bluefin on family computers and they just work without me running tech support for them.
It’s like bazzite, but not tweaked out for gaming. Essentially Fedora Atomic, but with a good default setup with a bunch of quality of life improvements either built in or easy to implement.
built-in adware, bloatware, spyware, and the coming auto-ingestion of your entire hard drive to an LLM are probably the biggest arguments. Pretty good arguments but transitioning seems annoying. Completely agree with you and am struggling with the idea of the change right now, like, I wish I gave more of a shit lol. Been trying to test out on a VM but my VM runs like absolute shit and makes it very uncompelling (i’m sure it would work better as the base installed OS)
Also wanna chime in to recommend Bazzite. Super easy to use, works out of the box for gaming and basic computer use, don’t need to think about it at all and it doesn’t come with all the bullshit windows comes with.
When you talk about gaming here is it through proton or some other compatibility layer? I’d love to move away from windows but I also love playing janky MMOs that won’t run on Proton (afaik). I have a steam deck so I’ve played around with proton a bit and for the most part it’s plenty good but not sure if I want to make the jump for my pc that’s mostly for gaming.
edit: 5 seconds of research and I’ve answered my own question. Unless some kind nerd here had a good method/explanation/sales pitch I think I’ll have to update to win11 soon enough.
It sounds like your gaming use case is a bit niche so it’s possible Linux might not work out for you, specially since you have a Steam Deck and probably have tried already.
But if you ever want to try it with a full on desktop install, you could just install some distro like Bazzite or CachyOS in a spare drive or big enough pendrive and see if you can get your games to run there. Using launchers/tools outside of Steam like Heroic, Bottles and Lutris will probably be of help.
It takes some getting used to if you use it for software development but it’s doable. I haven’t run into anything that wasn’t surmountable with distrobox or podman yet and I commit crimes against software every day.
I just want to think about my OS as little as possible. I currently basically never think about windows 11. Is there any reason to move to linux?
You may not think about it much now but it will be st the forefront of your mind if a windows update bricks your SSD.
It happened to my girlfriend’s friend right before an assignment was due and he had no other backups.
Bazzite promotes itself as a “gaming” Linux OS, but it works fine as a solid desktop that is practically impossible to break, it quietly self-updates, and it has a slick “app store”. You can literally just install and forget.
The only issues that will cause you problems is if you need some specific proprietary software like MS Office or Photoshop, or a game with kernel-level anticheat.
I quit Linux distro-hopping for 2 years because I got tired of messing with my system and just wanted to be able to boot reliably and get business done, then with windows 10 I moved back to Bazzite/Universal Blue/Fedora Atomic and stayed since. I use Bluefin on family computers and they just work without me running tech support for them.
I’m on bluefun and it’s been rock solid. Best linux experience I’ve ever had.
Never heard of that one.
It’s like bazzite, but not tweaked out for gaming. Essentially Fedora Atomic, but with a good default setup with a bunch of quality of life improvements either built in or easy to implement.
built-in adware, bloatware, spyware, and the coming auto-ingestion of your entire hard drive to an LLM are probably the biggest arguments. Pretty good arguments but transitioning seems annoying. Completely agree with you and am struggling with the idea of the change right now, like, I wish I gave more of a shit lol. Been trying to test out on a VM but my VM runs like absolute shit and makes it very uncompelling (i’m sure it would work better as the base installed OS)
Also wanna chime in to recommend Bazzite. Super easy to use, works out of the box for gaming and basic computer use, don’t need to think about it at all and it doesn’t come with all the bullshit windows comes with.
When you talk about gaming here is it through proton or some other compatibility layer? I’d love to move away from windows but I also love playing janky MMOs that won’t run on Proton (afaik). I have a steam deck so I’ve played around with proton a bit and for the most part it’s plenty good but not sure if I want to make the jump for my pc that’s mostly for gaming.
edit: 5 seconds of research and I’ve answered my own question. Unless some kind nerd here had a good method/explanation/sales pitch I think I’ll have to update to win11 soon enough.
It sounds like your gaming use case is a bit niche so it’s possible Linux might not work out for you, specially since you have a Steam Deck and probably have tried already.
But if you ever want to try it with a full on desktop install, you could just install some distro like Bazzite or CachyOS in a spare drive or big enough pendrive and see if you can get your games to run there. Using launchers/tools outside of Steam like Heroic, Bottles and Lutris will probably be of help.
It takes some getting used to if you use it for software development but it’s doable. I haven’t run into anything that wasn’t surmountable with distrobox or podman yet and I commit crimes against software every day.
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