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100K Penguins! Bazzite hits 100,000 weekly active devices, growing 14k devices in the past 3 months.
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I live under a rock, what tf is Bazzite?
It’s a Linux distro that is gaming focused. Based on Fedora but preloaded with gaming software like emulators and Steam. It’s pretty easy to install and run without knowing anything about Linux so it’s growing in popularity among gamers that don’t like Microslop.
I think it's important to point out (for someone familiar, such as everyone on lemmy obviously) that Bazzite is based on the immutable Fedora Silverblue.
Being immutable makes it apparently stable, but comes with tradeoffs (you are basically limited to flatpaks for installing things, or at least highly discouraged from using other install methods).
If you want a gaming focused distro that is based on the standard Fedora, I can recommend Nobara. Their default version now uses KDE but I use the Gnome version. I think KDE did something recently to make everyone angry but I can't remember what (AI related maybe?), I use Gnome because I like it.
Partly true. Somebody talked about the idea of KDE Plasma becoming an "AI-native" desktop at Akademy (the KDE conference), and the discussion (which, as far as I'm aware, was all it was. I'm pretty sure it was just some guy, not the KDE team), and the media overblew it with headlines like "KDE Plasma becoming an AI-native desktop???"
There are good reasons to dislike KDE Plasma, but I don't think this is one of them. If you prefer GNOME because you prefer how it looks, that's cool too! And again, it's made by developers who do it at no cost to us, and the fact that Plasma is so good (as is GNOME, Cinnamon, etc.) is awesome
edit: The people who talked about Plasma as an "AI native" desktop in Akademy used to be KDE developers but are no longer active contributors. It was not the KDE team saying "this is what we will do in the future". There's a good video about it by Nicco (a KDE dev who makes videos regarding Linux and other bits) if you want to learn more: https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/b97487b5-b544-4652-8548-c0a732f87f45