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Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I distrohop every now and then, but usually when I have a convincing argument for it. Anyone want to try to convince me to switch either of my computers (one on Tumbleweed and one on NixOS) to Bazzite?

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

its closest to nixos in functionality, but basically its just a very simple distro that doesnt require much work to maintain and comes with lots of useful premade scripts and configurations for gaming and making immutables easy to work with. if thats what youre looking for thats what its good for.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Can I setup docker containers on it?

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Yes, but the beauty of it is that it plugs in Steam immediately. If you're installing it on a machine that uses Steam and sometimes browses it is a one-stop shop.

I offloaded Windows 10 entirely, installed bazzite, and played Hollow Knight and the entire Dark Souls trilogy from the same installation on the same harddrive I'd had them on Windows. Didnt even need to reinstall.

To me that's impressive. I only had a few crashes overall too.

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