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Thoughts on Bazzite for a desktop machine?
(lemmy.world)
Does the community have any thoughts on Bazzite for a desktop gaming machine?
My primary use with be mouse and keyboard, but the deck interface looks nice for the 10% of the time I want to use a controller. I also hear that HDR and VRR work better under it then most of the DEs.
Anyone out there using Bazzite for a similar use case? I'd also be curious to here about other ways people are using it.
I used it for about 9 months on my gaming laptop. From a gaming perspective it was great. I have AMD and everything just worked out of the box. Installing new packages takes some getting used to, but 99% of the time you can find it on flathub which is super easy to use and maintain. I did notice that it seemed to take a significantly longer time to boot compared to my previous distros. On average probably a good 15-30 seconds longer which feels like forever when waiting for it to come up. Not sure if this is common or just something funky with my setup. I used Silverblue a few years back and don't remember it being that slow. I also never could get my Canon printer drivers to install and function properly which is what inevitably lead me to switch back to Nobara. I like being able to use "dnf install" for something or tweak a vendor provided install script and it just installs the thing and then be done with it.