Hello, gamers! Exciting times are ahead for game developers and developers wanting to use Bazzite. Building upon the incredible work by the amyOS developers, we are officially announcing the creation of Bazzite DX and Bazzite GDX (Game Developer Experience). Bazzite DX will be developer focused edition which will include general developer goodies, just like Bluefin DX or Aurora DX. This will be a general developer image, so it will be scoped to match our existing developer modes. Bazzite GDX...
  • BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    The marketing sounded interesting, but after a bit of digging I realized I’m not the target audience. As a turn-key solution for non-Linux people however it seems to be making great strides.

  • dajoho@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Bazzite is stuffed full of polish, especially the Gnome variant and, little known to me at the time, they have a whole set of non-gaming-related tools in the background for developers who use containers (distrobox, podman etc), which is exactly what I use for my job.

    I was so impressed that I have installed it as my main OS on my laptop and have replaced SteamOS with it on my SteamDeck.

    This distro is one of the best I have used. It is definitely one to keep an eye on.

    • gruhuken@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I just installed it today! It’s so easy to set up and use, games have been working right out of the box and I like the security of rollback updates. I’m brand new to Linux and i think it has the potential to convert people over

      • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 day ago

        It started as an experiment to get off the Windows 11 train wreck for me and now I can’t imagine ever going back. Linux is so far ahead, it’s not even a competition.

        • loserville@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          I mean that’s a bit of a general statement. But Some distros are very good, for laptops however? Power management is a chore and most fixes for that don’t work that well on either Bluefin or Bazzite.