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Can definitely recommend if you just need basic daily usage, and NVidia gaming. I've been using it successfully for several months, and personally lile it better than I liked Mint.

I'm planning to swap to something else, soon, simply because I have had issues with the immutability of the OS, for doing some "non-basic" things. There's software I need that isn't readily available via flatpak, so that alone is kind of a dealbreaker, for me, as I really don't know how I would "properly" install non-immutableb software on an immutable OS.

I've got it on two machines and it just works. I started with Mint on my big gaming PC and I don't know if it was Nvidia drivers or what but it just wasn't performing well. I had bazzite on an old work laptop and was really happy with it so i put it on the big PC. Seems to have fixed all my problems.

it's a great windows replacement and I'm nowhere near hitting the limits other users here talk about. I'm using it as a regular desktop for web browsing and gaming, it has worked fine

Don't dual boot on the same drive. Windows doesn't play nice with Linux on the same drive. Bazzite is probably okay for a first distro but I prefer Mint for that sorta thing. I personally run Debian on older hardware and Fedora on newer stuff that isn't supported. Bazzite is 'immutable' which means it's rather difficult to extend it's capabilities if you might want to. I have had mixed results with it though on different machines, stability wise.

It's been fine for me so far after like a month? I've even got my navidrome server running through podman quadlets which I didn't expect to be able to do. Did have some Wi-Fi issues early on though

Been using it for quite a while now, landed on it after distro hopping between openSUSE, Arch* and some other stuff. Linux in general has improved by leaps and bounds since the last time I tried it, but Bazzite is by far the most "just works" distro I've tried. It's Fedora Kinoite based, so there's a lot of support out there, but bear in mind that it's atomic and immutable, which functionally means that making changes to system files and installing random .RPMs from say, GitHub won't work the way you might think (but you probably shouldn't be doing that anyway). You need to do things the Bazzite/Kinoite way as opposed to the Fedora way. Similar, but not the same. This means Flatpak, AppImage, containerised everything. Podman instead of Docker (functions more or less the same though). But you only really run into those issues if you're trying to do weird shit like me.

As a daily it's pretty damn slick. I run AMD GPUs wherever I can (my main rig is an RX6650XT) and haven't run into a graphics driver issue at all.

*btw

It's a good choice. based on fedora so it's got a solid foundation.

the big question is how long it'll stay maintained for... they seem pretty serious about it, so odds are good that it'll be around for the long haul. but with such a short history it's hard to say.

if you're nervous about it you can just go for fedora kiniote which is basically the same thing without the gamer stuff.

It's a good first linux OS. It's the easiest way to get a stable linux distro with a bunch of quality of life tweaks OOTB. I greatly encourage it for new users.

The limitations are greatly exaggerated, but you basically can't mess with system stuff. It makes it stable, but if you want to dive into linux and tweak it until things start to break, it's not the distro for you.

You can do more advanced stuff, but it requires learning containers. Which is useful if you ever want to try services with docker containers.

I've been running a simliar distro called bluefin, basically bazzite but without all the gaming tweaks/software added by default, for about a year and have no complaints. It's been the most trouble-free distro i've ever used.

I haven't tried it, but the whole immutable distro idea is just really appalling to me by the sound of it.

Maybe it's a good thing if you want a console like experience and don't do technical stuff on your computer, but personally I find CachyOS much better for a quick gaming setup that's also good for all around usage.

Also Mint is the best for newcomers imo, but I don't know if the driver versions are good enough for heavy gaming, and you also have to do yourself a lot of the optimization stuff that comes preset with CachyOS.

Its legit and its definitely a good enough distro to do most things you could conceivably want to do. You download the ISO with the AMD gpu drivers and it just works.

Dual booting and trying it out sounds like a good / safe bet.

I tried Bazzite, but my online games (overwatch, sf4 and umvc3) were all laggy as hell. When I tried solo player games (just cause 4 and Romeo is a dead man) they would either crash or not display cutscenes.

It's a great idea, but the tech isn't ready.