this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
236 points (98.4% liked)

Linux

14367 readers
207 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Ategon@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev
236
Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev
54 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's great for tinkering. It's just done differently than you're used to.

[–] lil_baka@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can write your own systemd services and you can customize your Plasma using panel colorizer. You can go a bit further and rpm-ostree install kvantum and get even more ricing freedom. You can't however make it use other init system or other DE/WM. It's still quite good for what it is.

[–] throwaway403@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You can’t however make it use other init system ~~or other DE/WM~~.

You're AFAIK correct on the bold part. But definitely not on the strike-through part. You're probably only limited by your creativity and the effort you're willing to put into it:

[–] lil_baka@ani.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Well they basically forked Bazzite DX image and customized that... The hyprland fork author stopped maintaining it 8 months ago so it's not gonna work anymore with any recent Bazzite versions. So what they did is how Bazzite itself was created in the first place - by forking Fedora Atomic image and customizing it. I wouldn't really count this as "Bazzite supports other DE/WM", but yeah, if someone decided to go this far and make a fork like this then great, you can use it and hope they'll keep maintaining it.