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A very good read.
All my complaints about Bazzite are just griping from someone with change fatigue who is very rigid in their thinking. I think it's a really great distro and the install process is fantastic - it really sets the bar for other distros. I think most people would love it and I'd like to be able to love it too but I'm just too curmudgeonly and I know it.
But enough about my character flaws. For everyone else, they should absolutely give it a try if they are curious. Also all my gripes are minor compared to my complaints about Microslop. You can't go wrong with Bazzite.
What distro are you using if I may ask ? Why/When did you decide on it ? Currently on Fedora with KDE (and I think happy) after using Mint for about a month.
I'm either a terrible person to ask about distros or I'm perfect to ask as a very average PC user, so take that as you will.
I'm running mint on my laptop and I've got a handheld running Bazzite.
Mint was the default so I landed on that and it was good enough for me so I'm sticking with it because I can't be bothered to hop but I probably would have started at Zorin or PikaOS if I knew what I do now. For the handheld, Bazzite is the no-brainer option because of how it's perfectly suited for compatibility and ease of use. Both distros I started with when I switched to Linux and the pain of switching hasn't been outweighed by the pain of dealing with the small annoyances of staying yet so I doubt I'll be hopping to anything else for the time being.
I'm the most basic Linux user ever.
Did you find KDE very different from Mints Gnome?
I used Cinnamon when I was on Mint. I did like cinnamon it was easy to customize which was nice.
Funny enough I dont think I ever used original gnome in a live environment. I considered using Fedora with gnome but my friend recommended KDE (And there are a fuckton of customization options for KDE which is a plus in my book)