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I mean, in the video, Bazzite was still showing how it's not streamlined. I feel he was being too polite or dishonest so he doesn't get cancelled by the Linux community. Sure, a couple of the situations were not Bazzite fault, but if it really was the year of the Linux, it shouldn't be 10 hiccups from install to game. And that was still with his Linux experience.
That PUBG fails, is clear. You just won’t have a good time with anti cheat based games like PUBG, Fortnite and the like.
Wanna play those? Stay on Windows or get a console. Just how it still is.
And problems with capture cards I would not book in the „normie“ camp, which on a basic level is the goal of this video series.
It isn't 10 hiccups from install to game, if you just install something normal like Ubuntu or Fedora! The problem here is that the noobs are getting seduced by useless meme distros instead.
How did this idea that Fedora is a no-brainer beginner distro take hold?
Any distro that leaves it up to the user to install proprietary drivers and codecs via command line and then a chunk of additional software before anything can get done is not beginner friendly by today's standards.
Agreed, but I've been seeing people recommending Arch as a first distro lately, so...
Well that's just plain silly.
I'm a fairly advanced user of gnu Linux distros at this point in my life. Fedora is no where close to straightforward for gaming. Bazzite is plug and play set and forget. Is it frustrating to deal with flatpaks and osm-tree instead of simply using a standard package manager? Sometimes, sure. But for an absolute beginner there really is no better option for gaming as a fresh convert from windows.
Audio problems and nvidia drivers can be an absolute nightmare on almost all major distros from Debian to Ubuntu, to fedora if you don't have an absurdly advanced grasp of the processes underlying.
Bazitte takes all of that out of the picture. It's absolutely not a meme distro. It's perfect for an average tech literate person.
I use arch btw, Debian, fedora, Pop, lubuntu, Ubuntu, and a half dozen other distros on a daily basis across a handful of devices. So I'm not daily driving Bazitte, but for gaming and general purpose computing there's no simpler distro imo and I'll die on that hill.
Step 1: Install Bazzite
Step 2: Open Steam or Lutris, which is already packaged with Bazzite, and use it to install a game
Step 3: Click play
Not fucking hard dude. Quit being a prick.
Apparently it is, given what happened in the video!
Also, who's the prick? I'm not the one making personal attacks.
Linus's problems in the video stem from him installing an Ubuntu based distro. His problems on Discord have been resolved in newer versions, which Ubuntu and Pop!_OS don't ship with yet, while distros based on Fedora and Arch do. And guess what? I said to install Bazzite, a Fedora-based distro.
The other guy's (not Luke) problem with screen scaling / framerate is mosy likely due to the HDMI forum refusing to allow support for HDMI 2.1 on Linux, limiting his bitrate. HDMI can't do 4k/120+hz without that suppory
And the reason I'm calling you a prick is because you're going through and whining that nobody is trying Ubuntu, when Ubuntu is not the right solution for them. Ubuntu doesn't work for everyone's use case. Get over it.