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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want a non-gaming alternative to Bazzite to recommend, there's it's two universal blue siblings, Aurora (general purpose desktop) and Bluefin (silverblue/workstation distro). They both have the same setup as Bazzite but without the explicitly gaming elements. https://universal-blue.org/

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm literally switching from Bazzite to Aurora right now.

Bluefin and Aurora are the same except they use Gnome and KDE respectively.

Each offers a general purpose version and a developer experience version.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I think they're based off the fedora atomic desktops of Silverblue and Kinoite respectively which are gnome and kde based. They do angle Bluefin as more workstation oriented, for what it's worth.