cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/27451562
Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven’t looked back.
They won me over since Sunshine on Fedora was a hassle to install and gave me corrupted graphics. Wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora’s codec-hell had something to do with it. On Bazzite everything I needed was preinstalled and worked out of the box.
I’m really happy to see Bazzite climbing the chart. It’s by far the best gaming-centric Linux distro.
I’m not sure I will ever understand the appeal of Linux Mint. Not because it’s bad, but because there are better distros for every use-case I can think up, especially gaming.
What would be better for desktop use? It’s simple, with wizards and help for setting up almost everything, has support for all the ubuntu stuff like ppas and deb packages so if there is a linux package for some software you are usually covered, and it also doesn’t restrict you from doing whatever you want, so you can change it to your liking (and at least there is a stable base that you start changes from)
Kubuntu minimal (no snaps) or Pop!_OS would be great picks for those use-cases.
Mint is very plain and simple, which makes it the most non-threatening transition from Windows for casual users. It’s also one of the most well rounded distros. Sure, other distros can do specific things better, but Mint deserves its flowers for its polish.
Yeah, bazzite, or any atomic distro, is not something I would recommend to someone coming from windows. It’s just too different in some ways.
Been running bazzite myself as a fairly experienced linux user and love it though.
I think it would actually be better for beginners, were it not for issue solving: any web search for a solution is bound to give you mostly answers written for traditional distros, which would potentially be incompatible with Bazzite.
I found it easy to transition to as a new linux user. I’m curious what you think makes it too different.
No bara?
I’m pretty pleasantly surprised at how well Arch and its derivatives are doing.
I’m (also pleasantly) surprised most of those arch derivatives are listed separately.
im honestly surprised my OS is lumped into Other. i would have assumed there were more people on Fedora
Fedora is great but installing nvidia drivers is just enough of a hassle for most people to skip over it and choose a derivative like Bazzite
Pop_OS really gets less love than it deserves. imo it should replace Mint as the standard go-to recc.
Hard to recommend a distro that hasn’t seen a new release in over 3 years.
Strange that it was previously at 0.00%, isn’t it?
I believe it was lumped into “Other” and not tracked previously.
Of it’s not tracked then how do they know which ones are in the top?
It is tracked, but valve probably has a threshold around 1-2% for when they start listing the os as a separe entry outside the ‘other’.
It was tracked. Bazzite went up by 2.37% (from nothing). Other went down by 2.40%. They just finally recognized Bazzite as an “actual” Linux distro instead of the “IDK” category.
