Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November.

cm0002@literature.cafe · 3 days ago

Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November.

elucubra@sopuli.xyz · edit-2 3 days ago

I’m a Linux user since the age of Slackware diskette installs.

I tried Bazzite, or Aurora, rather, and found that it wasn’t for me. Having to spin up distro boxes or VMs to do things that are pacman -Syu some-random-app in my current distro, is just not for me.

I lived in ultrastable Debianland for years, and recently tried Script Kiddie Arch (CachyOS). I have my at-least-for-now forever home.

I have a fairly bleeding edge distro that is slick, fast, polished, friendly, and If something goes boom, I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me, and I don’t have to live in a system where the important decisions are made for me.

I have an old iMac for that.

CachyOS is friendlier and less problematic than W11, and if you need help, it’s wiki + Arch’s legendary wiki + community is way more useful than your average Windows “run DISM” bullshit.

throwaway403@programming.dev · edit-2 1 day ago

I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me

FWIW, openSUSE literally pioneered the above workflow with Tumbleweed. But that didn’t prevent them from developing openSUSE MicroOS (and its desktop-adjacent siblings). So, unless openSUSE has absolutely no clue on what they’re doing, there is more to it than that. Even if ‘that something’ isn’t relevant for you (yet).