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Bazzite 42 listed in June 2025 Steam Hardware Survey
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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.
why?
Why Bazzite is not great imo:
Immutable structure creates difficulties for customization (more applicable to desktop systems than handhelds/custom consoles).
Fedora base means potential discontinuation of necessary components and slow package manager.
Why Arch is better:
Up to date packages without Fedora's issues.
Support from gaming-related companies such as Valve.
This part was a joke after all.
Lag? And discontinuous of stuff like X11 and PulseAudio. They even tried to pass removal of 32 bit packages recently. It may not sound important for 64 bit systems but actually a lot of apps (especially proprietary ones) are in themselves 32 bit.
lag - out of date packages
the discontinuations you said, need to happen, how it happens will be managed well
That's the thing. Fedora doesn't manage it well. They just go first.
yeah? well i'm doing the fedora thing right now, it'a been wonderful
do you think i should go back to arch?
You only have to replace it if the disadvantages affect you. Usually they affect old hardware, specialist hardware and NVidia GPUs. If you have none of those, you should probably be fine.