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ok this was the thing i was most worried about. glad to hear it can just be forked
a lot of the other discussions about it are way too hardcore for me to understand right now
It can be forked, but what I was referring to with 'rebasing' is that with atomic systems, you can essentially just swap your distro to a different one while keeping your user files intact. Like, with a single console command, you can swap between any of the Fedora Atomic variants on their website. Because Bazzite is just Fedora KDE Atomic + quality of life features like integrated drivers, codecs, and software, you can just rebase back to Fedora KDE Atomic/Fedora Kinoite at any time to be on the official Fedora distro and all you'll lose is the extra stuff that Bazzite preinstalls for you.
The only issue is if you are trying to go from KDE to Gnome or vice versa because they store config files in the same place. So it's technically recommended to re-install if going to a different desktop environment, but I've had no issues going from KDE to Niri to Cosmic and back.
But tldr: you can just move back to the official distro if anything ever happens to Bazzite with a single rebase command.