HaraVier

Is that some hyperbole? Or is there a source to that? I'm out of the loop*, so apologies for my ignorance.

Interesting. Thanks for the clarification! It would have been even more helpful if you could recall more details about the bad experience. Thanks in advance!

Wow, that seems like a rather hostile take on the matter if I've ever seen one. But I feel like you might be conflating stuff OR hurt yourself while trying to force your way on an "immutable" distro.

After learning the ropes on how to install and manage software, there's not really much to Bazzite. Unless you somehow happen to be dealing with one of the ever-so-rare-becoming edge-cases it can't deal with.

The ideas that Arch is scary and too complex are dated at this point with how some of these modern distros are packaged.

I get where you're hinting at and its difficulty is definitely overblown in the sense that some newbies may actually thrive on Arch. Thus, if anything, I'd propose that (very) eager-to-learn newbies should perhaps even consider Arch.

However, as long as this convoluted mess continues to be the expected 'workflow' for updates^[Let's not ignore that Arch expects you to update regularly.], Arch can not be considered beginner-friendly.

By contrast, a distro like Bazzite just defaults to care-free^[To be fair, if you've layered anything, then that might have compromised the integrity of upgrades. That being said, it's a minor concern that mostly seems to be affect major system updates only. So that would mean you'd have to pay a bit more attention once every 6 months or so. Which, at least IMO, is very sane. And -again- only applies if you've actually layered stuff. It's smooth sailing otherwise] auto-updates in the background; a pattern every noob recognizes from their phones.

I'm not sure if that reasoning is true, though. The popularity over time of both Bazzite and Nobara can be viewed through many different ways, but the data seems to suggest that Bazzite overtaking Nobara in popularity happened long after both had received their respective Steam Deck images. Heck, even Bazzite's own metrics seem to suggest that the hype is a very recent one. This is also reflected on social media platforms like Youtube:

• Bazzite's most viewed videos were all created within the last year or so
• While Nobara's most viewed videos were all created over two years ago

As for how or why Bazzite succeeded in overtaking Nobara? I actually don't know. Perhaps it's simply because it happens to be closer to SteamOS^[The Linux distro shipped in over (allegedly) 4 million sold units.] in design philosophy. Or, maybe its atomic/'cloud-native' (or whatever) nature makes it (somehow) more attractive to install for the crowd that (at least traditionally) never got into Linux.

FWIW -perhaps we may find the crux of the matter in here- if I had to pick a distro to use on my personal gaming rig, then I'd probs go for CachyOS^[And use it until it breaks... At least, that's what happened to my previous Arch(-based) installations.] for its (ever-so-slightly) superior performance. But..., if I were to install a distro on the gaming rig of a new-Linux user, then I'd undoubtedly go for Bazzite instead.

run0

It seems we don't have many AerynOS users on Lemmy. But based on the user reports found on "the platform that shall not be named", peeps seem to be enjoying it so far. May I suggest that you take it on a test drive yourself and make a post on Lemmy with your findings 😜?

Thankfully, history informs us that whenever Ikey leaves a project he kickstarted, that the project's remaining maintainers have shown to be competent and able to continue the effort, even in his absence. Look at both Budgie DE and Solus for reference*. So, I'm rather hopeful about AerynOS' future. Especially as its rather ambitious goals also happen to align with the desires of many that are to an extent interested in what so-called 'immutable' distros are able to achieve but are not yet happy or content with the direction or design of the current offerings.

(Just ensuring OP is notified: @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz)

Since the very recent 0.9.0 update of WinBoat, UWP app support has been added. So, that's perhaps worth exploring.

I like secureblue the most, because it's simply the best in class when it comes to bridging the difference between Desktop Linux and GrapheneOS in terms of security. As being secure is at the very top of my priority list, my preference for secureblue -therefore- follows rather naturally.