• jacecomix@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Everyone loves Bazzite, and they’re probably all right, but it did not run very well on my old gaming laptop.
    Since people often mention Linux (in general) as being a good OS for older hardware, I thought this anecdote might be a helpful perspective to some.
    I tried two or three other distros on that laptop, and they all ran fine as expected. I assume Bazzite has some higher system requirements to power its cool features.

  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Agreed! Skim my post history. I’m in the meme.

    And it’s because I’m so happy I have a plug n play version of Linux that I don’t have to troubleshoot. It’s more stable than W11 on my work computer. I love it so much. I could throw it on my grandmas computer and she would be fine. I’d recommend it over Mint for new Linux users.

    I wouldn’t recommend it for people who love using the command line or run virtual machines.

  • oppy1984@lemdro.idEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Honestly I’d welcome this, the Linux podcasts I listen to are still going on and on about nix. At least it would be something different.

  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
    23·
    7 hours ago

    Imagine not using Hannah Montana Linux. I literally can’t do it. Why would you use anything else when all the other distros are so inferior?

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    9 hours ago

    I feel called out, “I use Bazzite btw” is literally a joke I made irl last week.

    Some Bazzite users touch grass and talk to people IRL, surprising, I know.

      • Marty@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 hours ago

        In which ways is it better? right now I’m defaulting to bazzite for my desktop as I already got a steam deck.

        • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          Well I can’t speak for everyone, but I noticed significant gains in a couple of the games I played when switching. Specifically Minecraft and Dune: Awakening. I’m getting upwards of 100fps in Minecraft with BSL shaders on ultra now, and I’m playing on a laptop. When I was on Bazzite I was getting less than 60fps with shaders, so I didn’t use them at all.

          Depending on the DE you pick, it can be pretty good on the battery life too.

      • LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 hours ago

        openSUSE Tumbleweed made me love my computer again. It also games like I’m not even missing anything from Windoze. NVIDIA GPU and everything. I’m sure there are “better” distros, but openSUSE was the one that got me to stay, and I couldn’t be happier!

    • krox@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      8 hours ago

      It’s honestly so easy to get into and works, I’m honestly surprised it isn’t suggested more!

      (I use bazzite btw)

  • eldain@feddit.nl
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Can you dual boot it yet with other linuxes? I want to split gaming and productivity.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 hours ago

        I tried it out and challenged myself not to touch the terminal to fix anything for as long as I could, to see if it is a truly ready-out-of-the-box experience.

        It is actually very intuitive for gaming, what makes it feel more suited than most distros for me is that flatpak apps that you don’t have installed show up in the start menu, ready to add if you need them. Other OSs are leaner and cleaner but you’d have to know the package name.

        I managed to get everything started, games and stuff including minor tweaks, and the first time I needed to use the terminal was to work out how to get some fan control working. I didn’t succeed in setting it up. So I took away from that experience that low level hardware OS tasks are harder to access in Bazzite.

        • Hazzard@lemmy.zip
          8·
          8 hours ago

          Yeah, basically the only thing I really use the terminal for is ujust, a series of scripts maintained by Bazzite themselves. And ujust does have a script to install a GUI fan controller app, btw, which I’ve used to setup my own fan curves, and found it pretty darn usable despite it being the first time I’ve done such a thing.

          The OS is immutable, so you’re probably right that lower level tasks are harder, but Bazzite themselves have stepped in and created a dedicated command for pretty much anything finicky I’ve thought to do in the past year or so.

      • Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        12 hours ago

        Its not better per se compared to other Linuxes for gaming, just pre-configured to take a lot of the basic setup work out of it for you.