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Bazzite Post-Mortem
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Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
(Even if they're all true) Do any of those things matter to a user ? If the goal is to ditch Windows and have something else that can run Steam and a web browser and maybe some other applications, being "ancient" sounds just as likely to mean "stable and actually works"
One immediately noticeable thing is the lack of gestures on X11. Touchpad and touchscreen gestures just work in Wayland, most DEs implement them OOTB, even Hyprland has them. Imagine going from a modern OS to one that doesn't have touchpad gestures in 2026. Yeah there's workarounds but having to config that isn't a good user experience.
I don't use a touchpad on my workstations, my gaming desktop, my servers...
Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem
#153Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the incident case, it's a post-mortem on the incident. The incident itself is (hopefully) resolved and can now be dissected to learn about what went wrong and how things can improve in the future. That's what a post-mortem implies to me in the tech industry. A thing happened, it's over now, here are the lessons we learned to take into the future.
Yes, but Bazzite is not over.
If you read the article, way down at the end he pulls it around. He means it's dead as a serious os that vendors can ship. It'll live on for hobbyists but you better be prepared for a bumpy ride as the YOLO crew hits send on increasingly larger amounts of stuff before its ready and continue to act unprofessionally (my paraphrase, but I believe I captured it).
Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem
#155It’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
or depending on your point of view (I don't know which one is the correct one), it's very easy to find some rule that was infringed for a quick power grab, right at the time when Bazzite is becoming popular.
It's sad that this happens so often now. My brain auto translates the above statement to "we, the wokes, abused the overly broad, convoluted and mostly unnecessary code of conduct we pushed through earlier to get rid of dissent." at this point, although it may not be a correct auto translation in this case.
Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem
#156I guess the good thing about Bazzite, CachyOS, Omarchy and what have you, is that it brings new users to Linux. I would still like to see most users pick established distros, as contributions there have a higher impact on the ecosystem. But self-named gamers are probably harder to reason with.
I've been using desktop Linux for 20 years in various capacities. I most recently picked Bazzite for my gaming/desktop VM because it's simple to set up and works better than other distros I've tried to game on in the recent past. It's that simple.
You're basically me except instead of gaming I ripped out hyprjellynix (my super crappy nixos config to autologin to a window manager and start jellyfin media player setup for bazzite because it just worked so well and auto update worked so well and setting up new boxes was a breeze. I just need it to keep booting into kde and loading jellyfin media player and updating and rebooting at 3 am every night on my 3 boxes so really hoping I don't notice this change. If I do I'll have to find another immutable os that can do this and works great with hardware acceleration on the cheap nuc like n150 based boxes I prefer for this.