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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. (lemmy.ml)
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Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's great for tinkering. It's just done differently than you're used to.

[–] lil_baka@ani.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can write your own systemd services and you can customize your Plasma using panel colorizer. You can go a bit further and rpm-ostree install kvantum and get even more ricing freedom. You can't however make it use other init system or other DE/WM. It's still quite good for what it is.

[–] throwaway403@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can’t however make it use other init system ~~or other DE/WM~~.

You're AFAIK correct on the bold part. But definitely not on the strike-through part. You're probably only limited by your creativity and the effort you're willing to put into it: