100K Penguins!
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The entire team here at Universal Blue is thrilled to announce that we’ve passed 100,000 weekly active users! It’s hard to believe how far things have come in just the last 5 years. What started as a small project to bring cloud native to the Linux desktop has grown because of the people who believed in it: the contributors who spent nights fixing bugs and reviewing PRs, the folks answering questions in Discord and on the forums at 2 AM, the package maintainers keeping everything running s...

  • QuaffingLynx@lemmy.zip
    16·
    4 hours ago

    I just love Bazzite. For daily driving I use another distro, but for my gaming PC below my TV I chose Bazzite and it keeps happily chugging along. I never had any problems, it goes out of my way, never bugs me and does what it needs to do. I honestly never even noticed it updating before (it does though!). I was even able to swap from a NVIDIA GPU to an AMD one and could do the rebase with no issues and minimal knowledge. Steam launches in Big Picture mode and I get the full console experience. And if I feel like mouse and keyboard is needed I can just stream using sunshine to my other PC. It is not that hard, Microsoft.

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      4 minutes ago

      Only the main OS image is immutable, but there’s distrobox, homebrew, virtual machines (now moved to bazzite-dx, only a rebase away), lots of ways to install stuff in userspace.

      Distroboxes are actually a really good developer workflow (except for system level stuff) once you adapt, install everything needed for a project, develop, archive the environment, all without touching the main OS. Obscure old project with instructions only for Arch, needing old python and CUDA versions, no problem. Super versatile and you never boot to a broken system.

      In a pinch you can also change the image with rpm-ostree install.

    • melfie@lemmy.zip
      1·
      8 minutes ago

      I tried it and I wanted to uninstall Steam because I use Lutris and don’t want something proprietary potentially collecting data. I’m sure it’s possible to do, but I couldn’t be bothered because it’d be going against the grain. I like the concept otherwise, especially for a gaming distro. An immutable gaming / HTPC distro with Plsma Bigscreen and no Steam would be the bees knees.

    • FoxAlive@lemmy.zip
      11·
      3 hours ago

      I thought the immutability was the reason it was peoples choice over a distro like cachyos.