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Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by hiccup_socks »

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.

>"Post Mortem" feels a bit like it's done in bad faith as it's usually applied to projects that are over.

is it? outside of autopsies, i think i have only ever seen it used as a synonym for "incident report". i dont think ive ever associated the term specifically with the end of a project.

e.g. cloudflare uses the tag for all of their incident reports (https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/post-mortem/), not as a signal that they are closing shop

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by jna_sh »

Been on Bazzite for a while now and had very few issues, though to backup the sentiments of Antheas here, they have managed to upset the maintainer of the Go-XLR Linux Utility with their fast and loose HW changes: https://github.com/GoXLR-on-Linux/goxlr-utility/issues/239

Looking around a couple of adjacent communities, it seems the Bazzite maintainers might have acted in the best community interest on this one, so I'm optimistic things will continue in a positive way. Still, might make me a little less full-throated about recommending Bazzite, knowing there's such drama under the surface.

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by shantara »

dismalaf wrote: post #18
shantara wrote: post #13

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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It didn’t impact me as a user, and I let the maintainers deal with their drama.

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by mhitza »

I 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.

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by esseph »

morshu9001 wrote: post #19
dismalaf wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 j…

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

This is very incorrect. There's been far more for 35+ years

* apt/.deb

* yum(dnf)/.rpm

* Tarballs

* Ports trees

* Flatpak

* Snap

* Etc, etc, etc

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by [deleted] »

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).

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Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by micromacrofoot »

dismalaf wrote: post #18
shantara wrote: post #13

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

[flagged]

was publicly being rude to the point of making other contributors leave (even after being asked to stop) and at least one case of using a slur

they said it themselves in this post

> Yes, I know I am hard to work with. Yes, I know that I pushed certain OSS contributors away.

generally the kind of person that gives open source a bad reputation, you can be critical or anti-social without being an asshole

Re: Bazzite Post-Mortem

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Post by exitb »

dismalaf wrote: post #12

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 Fed…

Also Jovian Nix, which is great if someone is already invested in that ecosystem.
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