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Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by Forgeties79 »

sho_hn wrote: post #4

I understand there's been drama, and someone walked away or was pushed out. I don't quite care enough to understand it all or point at guilty parties. However, my current understanding is that the project remains active, so titling this article "Post Mortem" feels a bit like it's done in bad faith as it's usually applied to projects that are over. It's certainly what I immediately assumed made it newsworthy.

As a bazzite user who had no idea anything was up until this headline, yes that was very concerning at first glance

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by dismalaf »

For everyone who thinks this is the death of Bazzite or whatever, keep in mind Bazzite, all the UBlue projects, are all based on Fedora Atomic which makes it super easy to make an immutable spin.

There's also Silverblue which is ready to go out of the box (unless you have Nvidia), Nobara which adds some gaming things. And on a different vein CachyOS is making waves with some gamers (but it's Arch based instead of Fedora and not atomic/immutable).

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by shantara »

It’s worth pointing out that the official Bazzite position is that Antheas was removed from the project for breaching Code of Conduct and harassing people in their official Discord server

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Post by dismalaf »

ta9000 wrote: post #10
helle253 wrote: post #6

man, i was JUST thinking about switching out windows for bazzite, because the only thing i use my windows machine for is video games... might need to hold off on that, as much as it pains me, with all the weird & sloppy updates windows is pushing out.

I’d recommend trying Linux Mint with Steam.

Mint needs to die. It's the most ancient, archaic distro ever.

Replacing something that's SOTA with something that still uses X11 and years old software isn't it (it makes Debian Stable look modern).

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by jovial_cavalier »

sho_hn wrote: post #4

I understand there's been drama, and someone walked away or was pushed out. I don't quite care enough to understand it all or point at guilty parties. However, my current understanding is that the project remains active, so titling this article "Post Mortem" feels a bit like it's done in bad faith as it's usually applied to projects that are over. It's certainly what I immediately assumed made it newsworthy.

Antheas was the #1 most active developer, and responsible for almost all low level integrations.

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by vurudlxtyt »

helle253 wrote: post #6

man, i was JUST thinking about switching out windows for bazzite, because the only thing i use my windows machine for is video games... might need to hold off on that, as much as it pains me, with all the weird & sloppy updates windows is pushing out.

Just install another distribution—Bazzite has some conveniences in setup, but doesn’t fundamentally provide anything that you can’t get elsewhere, and a lot of those customizations you probably won’t need.

I decided to try Fedora Kinoite for my gaming machine (to have something with less “maybe not maintained one day stuff” out of the box and a long term community of maintenance), and have been happy.

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by xd1936 »

ziml77 wrote: post #5

Glad I decided not to stick with Bazzite. I gave it a try a few months ago and had issues with Bazaar crashing (not at all low end hardware btw). If the primary method to install software was that broken on a fresh install, there was no way I was going to trust the OS at all, no matter how many people on YouTube and HN talked about how amazing it is.

What alternative did you switch to?

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by morshu9001 »

dismalaf wrote: post #14
ta9000 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d recommend trying Linux Mint with Steam.

Mint needs to die. It's the most ancient, archaic distro ever. Replacing something that's SOTA with something that still uses X11 and years old software isn't it (it makes Debian Stable look modern).

I tried Linux desktop for the first time in like a decade. Didn't know Xorg was deprecated for real, as in most distros moved to Wayland. Was surprised that the one hold out was Mint. And learned the hard way that Mint didn't work on my fairly normal PC, due to an Xorg issue.

This is the thing so many people recommend?! No wonder Linux is unpopular.

Also there like 20 competing ways to install packages now. Used to just be apt.

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by ramon156 »

I don't care enough about the drama to deep-dive, but as far as I can tell both parties are at fault. At least Bazzite did not make a "post mortem" blog post on a project that is still active. Bit petty if you ask me
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