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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by marcie@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[-] Moodel@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago

I don't care what Linux you use and whichever way you look at it this is good news :)

[-] Toga77@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

So freaking glad to see!

Let's go everyone, now's the time. Windows GDID is appalling and we deserve privacy.

I chose Fedora, but there's a distro for everyone and my friends use and love Bazzite.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 days ago

My brother in law made the switch last week to bazzite from win11. 8 gigs of ram, he wasn’t expecting much.

Now he’s amazed he doesn’t have to buy a new computer after all.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 47 points 4 days ago

Bazzite is awesome. Not surprised it’s so successful. Congrats to the team. :)

[-] Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 days ago

I swapped to it in May from Endeavour OS as I happened to be doing a clean install, and 90% of my PC usage nowadays is gaming, and I have never looked back, even though I thought Endeavour OS would have been the end of my Distro hopping.

[-] ddjivan@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago

been two years since I started using it daily, it's one of the best!

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 17 points 4 days ago

Is the massive jolt in the room with us?

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 days ago

I have a tens unit attached to my ass that has its voltage increase as bazzite gets more users

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

Have documentation for getting this set up?

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 11 points 3 days ago

I believe it's plug and play.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 4 days ago
[-] morto@piefed.social 18 points 4 days ago

I hope most are migrating from windows, and not from other distros!

[-] BigDawgOClock@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Im thinking of switching to Bazzite from Fedora. I was on Nobara, but team of developers vs solo project... Unfortunately, a couple of games don't run as smooth now.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 4 days ago

That's what I did after many years on Fedora. Honestly both Bazzite and Fedora are good, I don't miss Fedora but if I ever had problems with Bazzite that's where I'd go back to.

[-] _druid@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I recently switched from nobara to bazzite, and 99% of games worked with no tinkering.

[-] AppleMango@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I feel like it may not overtake KDE, from the graphs the trend seems to somewhat be following there too recently. Like a bump in number of downloads because of popularity, but not a linear trend. Does that even make sense?

[-] prole 1 points 2 days ago

Isn't that like comparing apples to oranges? Bazzite is a distro and KDE is a DE

[-] AppleMango@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

by KDE i meant Fedora KDE. Thought it would be obvious since the graph is labelled that way, i guess not.

[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I could see that. It'd be very interesting if it did, though

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I assume it has to do with it kind of directly competing with steamos and eating into the user share?

[-] AppleMango@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I guess competing is correct, but I don't see it overtaking steamOS any time soon or even coming close since the steamdeck is an actual product marketed by a for-profit company.

[-] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago
[-] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

6k people swapping in a couple weeks is pretty big. And it's likely more because not all computers use countme

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