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[-] princessnorah 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Despite the changes around them, both Nobara and Bazzite seem to keep hanging on at a stable share, close to 5% each. However it seems that both have stopped growing at that point and may be stuck at the current threshold. I’m not sure there is however much future when it comes to Bazzite, since SteamOS will eventually be rolling out to more and more devices out there. I guess it depends how much Valve does in terms of hardware support, and if Bazzite provide tangible benefits on top what Valve delivers.

I mean, Nobara is definitely steady or losing some of its share but Bazzite has only ever continued to gain, even if a bit slower now. As far as if it has benefits over SteamOS, well the Steam Deck is the largest percentage of Bazzite users by far, so it's clearly offering something that Valve isn't. I'd say that it's a lot simpler OOTB to set up other store's games with Lutris included.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Plus, Bazzite doesn't have the same hardware requirements. I have a handheld device that can't install SteamOS because of an incompatible hard drive, but Bazzite works just fine.

[-] princessnorah 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it does seem to be a lot less picky. I'm genuinely surprised we haven't seen OEMs like Ayaneo, GPD or MSI jump on it for their lower end devices.

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