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I feel like maybe I'm missing something because I tried Bazzite for a bit (before switching to vanilla Fedora) and found it kind of overwhelming? Like there was so much stuff installed by default and it wasn't super clear to me how it all was supposed to work together to do basic things like package management (esp. since dnf doesn't work)
I think that's what makes it good for beginners: it's a lot like a mobile OS. There's an "app store" where you get your programs (bazaar/flathub) and OS updates just happen automatically. Once you find yourself wanting to tinker then hopefully you're confident enough to start installing "normal" distros.