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Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by kskgkkcl »

d3Xt3r wrote: post #179
linsomniac wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The funny thing about SuSE, and admittedly I haven't touched it for over a decade now: Everyone I knew who used it touted that it had great enterprise support as a reason for using it, but everybody I knew that used SuSE used OpenSuSE. This was over ~20 years of providing Linux support, RHEL-based and Ubuntu were by far the distros we dealt with the most. One issue I had with OpenSuSE was that once a new release drop…

These days, since it's all about containers, I'd recommend openSUSE microOS, which is a minimal immutable rolling OS that's suitable as a container host. https://microos.opensuse.org/

When it’s all about containers, you run rancher.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by TiredOfLife »

data-ottawa wrote: post #194
haunter wrote: post #21

As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline. Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming…

The nice thing about atomic distros is switching operating systems is as easy as typing 'ostree rebase', and registering a secure boot key. So if Bazzite did go that way you could have fedora running in under an hour and with flatpak most thing will just work.

As I understand 'ostree rebase' between KDE and Gnome will lead to broken system.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by fsflover »

eviks wrote: post #262
dmos62 wrote: post #256

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Here's a thought experiment. What hypothetical piece of technology am I describing? > Next generation of construction - gezzite makes construction smoother and simpler across various commercial and residential projects.

The problem with your thought experiment is intentional obfuscation - where is the Linux equivalent? "Next generation of construction bricks" is already obvious

How about this:

> Next generation of construction cranes - gezzite makes construction smoother and simpler across various commercial and residential projects.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by qweqweqwe12 »

pedrogpimenta wrote: post #32
spiralcoaster wrote: post #26

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Right, because the idea of Linux has always been about sticking to big corporate distros whenever possible

Well, the idea of Linux was "a better minix" and "I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones".

The idea behind unix was a single user operating system. Hence the name.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by card_zero »

eviks wrote: post #262
dmos62 wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a thought experiment. What hypothetical piece of technology am I describing? > Next generation of construction - gezzite makes construction smoother and simpler across various commercial and residential projects.

The problem with your thought experiment is intentional obfuscation - where is the Linux equivalent? "Next generation of construction bricks" is already obvious

Well, "next generation of Linux gaming" is not specific. "Next generation of Linux operating system" would be specific.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by card_zero »

fsflover wrote: post #283
eviks wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with your thought experiment is intentional obfuscation - where is the Linux equivalent? "Next generation of construction bricks" is already obvious

How about this: > Next generation of construction cranes - gezzite makes construction smoother and simpler across various commercial and residential projects.

Too much noun, needs to be vaguer.

How about "next generation of Nordic construction".

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by rounce »

EliteGadget wrote: post #252
d3Xt3r wrote: post #248

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That's not been my experience on my GPD Win Mini 2024, an all-AMD machine. The difference between Linux and Windows 11 has been night and day.

Well that is the issue. The experience varies quite a lot depending on a number of factors. Whereas on Windows it doesn't really vary. I have an all AMD machine and almost all the games will run the same or better on Windows. I have friends that have tried gaming on Linux and all of them have found the experience worse. I did run a win debloat script from and use a local account so I don't have the Windows Spyware ru…

Perhaps it’s just evidence that anecdata isn’t some universal truth.

I’ve had the complete opposite experience for the vast majority of games, where in most cases performance for me has been better on Linux than it was on Windows (can’t compare like for like now as I no longer have a Windows install outside of a VM). Friends of mine experience weird mid-session crashes and hangs on Windows that I’ve never had on Linux. I’m running an Nvidia GPU which is supposedly some kind of Linux boogeyman, but have had only one issue with EDID of a specific monitor and that’s it. Just my experience YMMV.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by Zedfragg »

Soooo, after having to migrate multiple college campus sites across to Windows 11 in time for the W10 drop dead date. I kinda gave up with trying to get my PC running Windows 11 without bugs and freezes.

Switched to PopOS, was "ok", switched to Arch, performance was awesome.

A few days ago I gave Bazzite a blast and now I'm currently installing it as the primary OS on my gaming rig. Other than a few small tweaks, it just works.

It's quite a bit more performant than PopOS and PopOS came with a myriad of tweaks and issues needed for things like Ubi Connect (I've been going through the first Division game with my kids and PopOS/Lutris hated... Everything...

It all just works on Bazzite.

Plus the Nvidia drivers don't seem as bad, unsure if it's just the RTX5xxx that were having issues ala GamersNexus but the 4090 doesn't seem to have the same frame time issues that were raised (Knock on wood)

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by card_zero »

0x70c51c wrote: post #276
KyleGospo wrote: post #241

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"The next generation of Linux gaming - Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs." Are we reading the same website?

Did they change the website in the last hour? It now says "The operating system for the next generation of gamers".

Haha, yes! https://web.archive.org/web/20251130082805/https://bazzite.g...

Great victory.

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