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Windows 11 user thinking of switching to Bazzite (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by Scorned_Sparrow@piefed.social to c/bazzite@lemmy.world

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I don't have much experience with Linux, but I do have some. I'm thinking of leaving Windows as I'm trying to focus more on privacy and less AI.

I tried a Bazzite bootable install, and everything seemed to work great except for one thing- the RGB on my XPG ram sticks. OpenRGB controlled everything except those sticks as they went undetectable by the software. I tried the latest experimental OpenRGB build with no improvements.

That seems to be the only incompatible bit. While annoying it's not a deal breaker. How do you feel about using bazzite on a higher end desktop for gaming and as a daily driver? I don't play any games that use kernel anticheat.

UPDATE: Installed it this morning. Went with the Gnome version. Really enjoying it so far! Still getting everything situated, but I'm a happy camper. Thanks for the help, everyone :)

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[–] domdanial@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

I've been using bazzite for about 7 months I think. I use my PC for Internet and gaming stuff for the most part, not a "workstation" user.

I prefer it to relying on windows, and I find lots of cool interesting things I didn't know I'd like in kde plasma.

The built in app store, Bazzar, is really well tailored for gamers, plus lots of other utilities and such.

The "immutable" build of Bazzite (universal blue fedora) just means you'll be installing most stuff as flatpak packages "on top of" your OS like apps on a phone. If you need something that isn't built to be installed like that, you'll have to spin up a container of the distro it expects, but I did that within a week and it wasn't too hard.

I'm still running a 1080ti, so I'm not exactly peak hardware or performance chasing. Only problems with games so far are shitty DRM or Anticheats, and I don't like competitive multiplayer stuff anyway. Check protondb for your favorites.

It's stable. I don't think I've ever "crashed" or "blue screened" my OS. Did have 1 lockup where I had to turn it off manually.

Expect to make "gamer rbg ram" levels of sacrifice in a few places, as with all free/foss/not mainstream products.