Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month
That's a lot of downloading.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39776658
Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now
Yeah I tried Bazzite. Idk if its because I'm already in club tuxedo, but the whole immutability thing did not work for me when it didn't work with my hardware out the gate.
But if it had, wow, what a slick experience.
If I'm not mistaken (and I might be) the immutability can actually be toggled off for power users.
Hmm. Well I was on a tear of trying new operating systems trying to get a bit of bleeding edge kit working. I was about to be traveling and I needed it to just work. Bazzite had a release specific to my model... and it all seemed hunky dory, until it wasn't and I couldn't get in and wrench. I think in that week I probably went through 20+ different ISO's and install scripts trying to get to an install that would let me use the GPU acceleration I paid for. Tried fedora, bazzite (and bazzite did work, but I had issues with the wifi/ blue tooth driver, but I had to do containers/ sandboxes to actually use RoCM), ubuntu, others.
I ended up on Ubuntu for this machine because at least I can wrench on things, and I wasn't prepared to take the Arch jump off the diving board (at least not on a new machine before traveling). And its been "fine".
But I genuinely do no like the Ubuntu experience. Once I can slick this machine (when I'm done with my current project), I'm going to go to Fedora because that should allow me to stay with the most up to date kernel.
Not so much toggled, but you can break out of it. At that point it just becomes a fedora install with a somewhat different set of defaults.
Just switched today. What a great experience, wish I've done it before.
And on DistroWatch (last 30 days) its still place 16, just above NixOS. :D Shows again why DistroWatch shouldn't be used as a generalized popularity comparison: https://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4 (Note the link will have different data after time goes on.)
Last 30 days on Dec. 4, 2025:
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Rank Distribution HPD* --------------------------------- 1 CachyOS 4695> 2 MX Linux 2460< 3 Mint 2325> 4 Debian 1611< 5 EndeavourOS 1536> 6 Zorin 1420> 7 Pop!_OS 1316> 8 Fedora 1080< 9 Ubuntu 1061< 10 Manjaro 1045= 11 AnduinOS 914> 12 Arch 853< 13 openSUSE 729< 14 antiX 726< 15 Nobara 714> 16 Bazzite 692= 17 NixOS 647>
