Bazzite

I tried Bazzite first but eventually settled on PopOS.

I tried switching to Bazzite once. When I installed it, it made my three hard drives into one partition and their support was a Discord server so no thank you.

I've been running Bazzite since it launched. When Microsoft announced the TPM requirement for W1 and sunset of W10 I started the switch. After trying 10+ distros I settled on Bazzite.

It's been the best PC experience I've ever had. I've used Windows, MacOS, and all major Linux distributions, and the Universal Blue distros are the ones I like the most. I appreciate their ease of use, stability and having the latest drivers.

I have 2 kids, we use Bazzite (with KDE) on my 3 PCs:

• Intel i7 14700K + 3080ti
• Ryzen 7 7700X + Radeon 7900 XTX (Main Rig)
• GMKTec K12 (Ryzen 7 H255 32GB) as a Living room console.

Bonus:

• Steam Deck running Steam OS is the same experience as Bazzite for my family.

I run Aurora on my work laptop through an external M2 caddy. I am extremely happy to have made the switch.

My daily experience is pure bliss, there's no maintenance whatsoever, and everything I need to do with my PCs is easy.

I don't want to be an expert on any OS, I just want it to work for ME and not the other way around. I don't want to maintain anything. I want to work and play and the OS has to move aside and let me do my thing when I want to. And Bazzite and Aurora have been that for me.

Sure, we can't play Fortnite or FIFA. But this is a gazillion times better than dealing with Windows bullshit.

For other stuff like Adobe and what not, I found alternatives which some are free and better.

Valve, KDE, and drivers are being improved on a monthly basis, for me it means every little nuisance is being resolved automatically without requiring my attention.

But right now, in Game Mode, HDR and VRR work perfectly. Next month brings better HDR for desktop mode.

Nothing is perfect, but this is the happiest I've been with my computers ever. I don't do shit, everything works.

My kids are proud to show their setup, it's easy enough for them that they don't require my assistance to use them on their own.

I love it.

My advice? Switch and try. Settle with the one you like the most. Privacy is not the only benefit.

Oh for the ram rgb try

rpm-ostree kargs --append-if-missing="acpi_enforce_resources=lax"

then reboot. if its a live usb you have to add it to the boot kernel arguments at the grub screen

I've been using it on my gaming machine, an AM4 CPU with an nVidia 30xx GPU.

Everything works great. I've got some custom network drives and other unique-to-me configurations - took a little time to get right, but I wouldn't say it was hard.

Generally, if you have a cutting-edge graphic card, driver support may not be perfect. But other than that, it works great as a daily driver.

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.

I just switched from windows. The things I am struggling with are mostly related to game streaming and desktop streaming. using an intel 10 series and 3080.

1. Moonlight+Sunlight are mostly fine for game streaming, although there are hiccups once in a while. They technically also suport desktop streaming, but the features for that are not nearly complete compared to any other RDP/VNC app in the last 20 years. For example, clipboard sharing and keyboard shortcut documentation are terrible.

2. sleep/wake is basically broken with nvidia drivers. when the PC wakes from sleep the graphics driver does not realize it, so moonlight thinks there is no display connected. The workaround is full power off and power on instead of sleep/wake, but that is not 100% reliable either. Not to mention old fashioned.

I am using Bazzite (with KDE Plasma) on a Zen 3 and RDNA3 desktop and it works perfectly. Only lighting on my system are on the pre-installed case fans, which I keep unplugged. :D

I really like the "set up and forget" nature of the OS.

Been using it for a few months for my gaming pc. Love it, fuck Microsoft. I loathe rgb so no concerns there for me. I do miss some of my pvp fps that won't run, eg bf6, but with Kushner buying EA, I was never going to run kernel level anti cheat from Trump's son in law anyway.

It's getting more and more viable but as far as I know Linux drivers for GPUs are still struggling with HDR, especially in video playback.