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    [–] Blubber28 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Been running Bazzite for a month and having a great experience with it! My nvidea cards work with no hassle, and with the extended proton I have had issues with only 1 game so far, and even that was fixed by just switching to a different version. Only downside so far is that Wayland doesn't work as well as X11 on my DE, but with the rest working great, I have no complaints :)

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I feel like Bazzite is the new Arch in the sense that people are proud to use it and recommend it all the time

    [–] Blubber28 5 points 2 months ago

    Could be, though I am not claiming it is the best distro ever made. It is very good for my use case, however, and I think that it is a good option for many gamers that are considering taking the leap.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Would you recommend this distro to someone who hasn’t used Linux (Ubuntu) since 2006? I have nvidea as well and haven’t switched because I hear of issues with nvidea

    [–] utopiah 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    So... FWIW I post often about I have a painless NVIDIA experience, including playing Windows only games, including VR games.

    I thought "Damn... how did I get so lucky?" and yesterday while tinkering with partitions (as one does...) I decided I'd try a "speed run" to go from no system to a VR Windows only game running on Linux.

    I started from Debian 12 600Mb ISO and ~1h later I was playing.

    I'm not saying everybody should have a perfect experience playing games on Linux with an NVIDIA but ... mine was again pretty straightforward.

    I'd argue it's easier with Ubuntu and accepting non-free repository, probably having the same result, ~1hr from 0 to play, without even using the command line once.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and finally completely dumped Win10 as it was BSODing itself apart during games anyway.

    Constantly impressed with how many games "just work", and not even just with Steam. Heroic for GoG stuff, Lutris, Bottles for classics I still got on disc...it's awesome!

    But you mentioned Windows Only VR and I got all excited...except I've got a Samsung Odyssey+ (WMR) and realized Monado is the only hope of it not being an expensive blackbox brick. :(

    [–] utopiah 2 points 2 months ago

    You're right, it's not "just" Proton. I also tried recently GoG for Pod and... it just worked! From buying the (sigh) Windows game to playing on Linux in literally minutes. Amazing.

    For WMR I don't know unfortunately. Monado does work though and I would check https://lvra.gitlab.io as it's a great starting point, maybe starting with the Monado SteamVR plugin.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Ran Aurora that is also based on Fedora Kinoite, just as Bazzite.

    The world is seriously not ready for atomic distros. SO many workarounds to make basic things it's insane.

    [–] capital 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    What was some of the difficulty you ran into?

    I haven’t had to do anything weird but I don’t need anything outside of flatpaks usually.

    For most other things a container with more traditional package management works well.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

    Trying to run a Shadowsocks VPN service, installing Wine in a way that properly integrates with a system (I guess not an issue with Bazzite), Distrobox containers failing, etc.

    While trying to do the former, I also accidentally made Aurora literally not load into a DE in either ostree root.