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If I'm trying to learn bazzite as a new user, is it best to just learn fedora? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/bazzite@lemmy.world
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My fiancee runs bazzite, this was her choice but she's horribly non techy. I often have to help her with tech support but I don't use Linux, I've been thinking of switching over just so I can learn and fucking keep her PC from breaking all the time but I don't want to use bazzite. Would I learn by using what I hear it's based off of? (Fedora)

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[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not really.

Would help you playing around with a Fedora Distrobox Image.

But DistroShelf is a GUI for that and should be pre-installed.

Assuming default Bazzite is installed: You'd be better off learning Kinoite.

And rpm-ostree.

If Gnome variant: Silverblue.

But really easier to just Read the Docs and FAQs for Bazzite itself.

And the built in ujust commands in the Terminal.

It's Kinoite with extra steps/bells and whistles out of the box.

"...but I don't want to use bazzite."

...Curious.

There's also Project Bluefin and Aurora universal blue community images.

Can also make your own image:

Community images:

Atomic ≠ Immutable

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Is it really that curious? Bazzite is a gaming focused OS, I dont need that and I don't want an immutable OS on my personal desktop.

I'll look into atomic, with my particular learning disability I need to start from the ground up to actually understand it

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I started on traditional Fedora-KDE 32 as my first time with Linux.

I tend to do things blindly and figure things out as I go/ self-teach as needed.

Needed many extra steps such as setting up RPM Fusion just to be able to install Steam.

Another extra step just to enjoy Hardware Acceleration in your web browser.

Another step if you have an Nvidia GPU.

Ublu projects took all that pain away. 🥹

A much better out of the box experience. Like having batteries included.

Anyway that's my story.

I even made a gist now a bit old/outdated about it when I became a Bazzite enjoyer around the time Fedora had just upgraded to 38.

edit wow that was back when it was still known as Universal Blue-Kinoite.

So much has changed.

We have FSR 4 and HDR support now.

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I’ll look into atomic, with my particular learning disability I need to start from the ground up to actually understand it

Given that, if you're truly committed to mutable (and what experience are you basing that decision on?) Fedora will support your partner better, but Arch will teach you faster and has the best documentation. My own trajectory over the last decade or so was Arch -> Fedora -> Bazzite.

That said, as a pretty demanding user (dev, local AI stuff etc), I'd suggest thinking twice more on using the atomic and learning in (an Arch perhaps) distrobox. You'll be getting ahead of the curve, can do all your learning (and breaking of things) in distroboxes without borking your main install, can even distro hop after a fashion (again in distrobox). Give it six months and reassess...