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Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.
Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive
I’ve been using Bazzite for a while and mostly happy with it. So from 2026 and on, I’ll start donating a Windows license amount of money to Bazzite and other fundementals every year. Because fuck Windows, that’s why.
It's amazing. Everything works perfectly, all my favorite games run smooth and gnome is amazing.
I left Linux 10 years ago because I didn't have the time to maintain a system.
Now it's less work than Windows to set everything up
I installed Aurora today. My first immutable experience.
Many had cool presents it seems ðŸ¤
I ended up with CachyOS over Bazzite but I'm looking into the latter for my dad since I'm guessing it's more stable and easier.
I just... Idk, I like Arch over Fedora. I blame the little pacman eating my progress whenever I install stuff in konsole. Desktop mode to desktop mode it's the same KDE Plasma I'd be using, though. Are there any other striking differences between Cachy and Bazzite?
Edit: it was good to bring it up here, y'all are very knowledgeable on these things. It sounds to me that I need to get bazzite for my dad mostly because he won't want to fuss or work on it and that I made the right call for myself since Cachy (and Arch in general) gives more flexibility. Frankly I might not even give him desktop mode default, he strictly wants something to play from bed in full on retirement mode.
AFAIK CachyOS still demands a little involvement in the OS. Like, you have to watch the logs when you update, you need keep context in mind, like knowing you're running KDE and an Nvidia card and so on. But I feel like Bazzite would be more usable to someone who doesn't know (and doesn't need to know) what a filesystem or a discrete GPU are.
But in terms of stability, CachyOS has been rock solid for me. The cadence that Arch + CachyOS devs fix stuff has been utterly perfect.
So I say if your dad is more 'software curious,' give him CachyOS. If he doesn't like messing with computer stuff, give him Bazzite.
I went from Arch to Fedora idk, I think over a decade ago and haven't looked back, not sure how things are nowadays, but I switched again this year from Fedora to Bazzite and I love it. Sure, you've got to learn to do things a little differently, but so far it's been great. And it forced me to use distrobox, which honestly I should have done sooner, it's absolutely great.
I'm three of those new installs. Bazzite has surpassed every expectation I had.
Is this counting people who installed it and then left out of disappointment? I installed it once, and then I couldn't navigate through the menu as mouse-less-ly as Linux Mint can, and Steam wouldn't show any windows at all despite updating (only right-clicking the system tray icon would bring up that menu, but then clicking those entries or double-clicking the icon did nothing). It was just a really disappointing experience so I returned to Mint Cinnamon.
The graph shows weekly active users. So you wouldn't be counted unless you actively boot Bazzite.
Which desktop environment did you do
KDE Plasma, on a Lenovo ThinkPad E570 with a... GTX M950, I think.
bringus studios referense??///?
It’s not really surprising, Bazzite has been the talk of Linux internet for the last 18 or so months.
I'm one. I set up a Windows/bazzite dual boot situation and I've never booted windows since.
what's bazzite like? might experiment with it when I get my caseless frankenstein floor computer to work lol
think steamos with all of it's goodies (and more bazzite-exclusive features), but on a more standardised linux base so you can run it on any pc and handheld, not just the steam deck. bazzite is also just as unbreakable as steamos, since it is an immutable (read-only system files) os, and updates the same way as a phone does (downloads an update in the background, and uses it on next boot with a rollback option in the super rare event that it breaks something).
that's sweet, will probably try it!
Someone else could explain better than me I'm sure but, it's a Linux distro that is gaming focused. It comes pre-loaded with steam and video card drivers so that someone has a decent chance that their games will just "work".
will probably try when I get a case for my computer!
Sample size of 1, here.
Bazzite was my initial entry-point into Linux, but I bounced off it within 48 hours as its immutable nature made it impossible for me to install the native PIA VPN client and for the life of me I couldn’t get the OpenVPN to play nice.
Currently on CachyOS, and seems to run just fine - giving an end user just enough rope 😅
Plus it’s Arch underneath the hood too, so I can still cheekily say that I run Arch!
ETA: I wonder if/how long I would count as part of this Bazzite cohort?
As a normie, I love Bazzite because it's as intuitive as Microsoft without the intrusive and monopolistic proprietary features, and Bazzite is also built for gaming.
I've recently dove back into Linux and my last try was on Mint. After a few issues I went back to Windows. With the recent Microsoft news I wasn't happy using a system that could start spying on me.
It's been close to a month and aside from some specific game issues likely due to running a nivida GPU I've been enjoying my time so far.
Copy paste did take a while to get used to. Also the default screenshot tool doesn't automatically put the snip on the clipboard.
My main focus is gaming so this has been a solid operating system to use.
