• bonusss@lemmy.zip
    33·
    3 days ago

    I thought it was just my YouTube algorithm showing me install bazzite. Hehe guess there was a trend

    • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
      31·
      3 days ago

      I think its hitting a critical mass, that much upward growth is very encouraging to see. I was able to convince a handful of friends to switch to linux due to windows getting so bad, they liked the extremely simple approach Bazzite has. I think its better than Mint in this regard, Fedora has come such a long way.

        • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.mlOP
          8·
          2 days ago

          It’s image based, so it’s very hard for a beginner to fuck it up, and if they do its one or two lines of commands to fix 99% of the time.

          eg rpm-ostree rebase or rpm-ostree reset

        • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          The immutability is the main difference. If something gets messed up, on boot you simply change to the previous image and you’re back up and running again.

          • WereCat@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            I keep seeing people saying this but realistically how many new users had to do that? IMO, it’s just the fact that Bazzite has pretty much everything you need out of the box.

            • Rinox@feddit.it
              1·
              10 hours ago

              Eh, on something as customizable as Linux where the solution to problems can often be “run this line in the terminal”, I do believe that a new user can mess up their configuration. I remember Linus from LTT having to deal with a few problems while doing the challenge.

              It’s certainly also the fact that everything you need is already there out of the box, no need for tinkering to get the GPU drivers installed.

              The two things are probably both true

            • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              6·
              2 days ago

              Two editions, the current one and previous one, I believe

              And the space hog is like a few gigabytes. I think that’s well worth it for a beginner when it means that in the worst case you can always roll back when we have like terabytes of space