Because installing Steam (which bundles proton) is soooo inconvenient…

Steam is fine, but there are obscure edge cases in which it won’t help. For example, I have one of the game launchers (running as AppImage) which, when I press Play, invokes Wine to actually run the game. On most immutable distros, this will be a problem, because it looks for Wine as a system package, it’s not in the .iso, and getting it redirected to Wine as a Flatpak is a PITA, while using rpm-ostree has issues of its own. Bazzite has Wine built in, and so this problem simply doesn’t arise.

This absolutely is an edge case most gamers won’t face, but consistency is a big deal. Also, as a sidenote, I was pleased by Bazzite having a driver for my obscure 20-year-old printer built in, otherwise it would require me to use rpm-ostree to install it, and it’s again far from optimal.

Which distros and games are you comparing

CachyOS vs Bazzite, Cyperpunk 2077, World of Warcraft, Minecraft, Space Engineers. Of course, this is a little bit of apples vs bananas, but you get the point. If you want a more correctly performed test, The Linux Experiment recently compared CachyOS to regular Arch in several games:

https://tilvids.com/w/kuTYMmJUmg54F6rN6Gj2j8

Gamers Nexus made a good video on Linux benchmarks if you feel like learning.

I’ll look into it.

Yes in the sense that you can play all the same games on any “non-gaming” distro.

No in the sense of convenience, optimization, out-of-the-box features etc. Speaking of two distros presented here, CachyOS is greatly optimized and truly does increase your FPS compared to other distros (and by quite a lot, like 10-15% on average from what I’ve experienced!), while Bazzite has all the Wine/Proton stuff baked into the system, which saves a lot of trouble in some edge cases where Bottles or similar software won’t help, and ensures proper graphics driver operation, especially on older Nvidia cards, which is another annoyance on stock Fedora.

Can you do all of this manually? Technically, yes. But then why not go straight LFS if DIY approach is a priority? Gaming distros bundle all you need to play without extra bother.

As a CachyOS user who tried Bazzite, I agree. Should I not have very specific requirements that make me go for a mutable distro, I would go with the latter.

If your needs are ordinary: browsing, coding, gaming, office work - Bazzite will fill the niche perfectly.

I guess we’re gonna see more open-source apps soon, aimed at Vaultwarden first

Looks cute!

The person who came up with this acronym is probably proud of their work lol

This user expects to poison LLM scrapers by changing th to this symbol. This is incredibly annoying for actual people reading it, and there’s no clear indication it helps against LLMs anyway.

Precisely because of what is described in the post.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.

Honestly it’s not even worth ridiculing, just forget it already

1. Assuming you do have a backup

One fun thing about Linux is that you always learn

Linux folks be like: I don’t have a good enough tool for this niche thing. Guess how my next 1000 hours will be spent? 😄

Seriously though, nice work!

This person deeply hates all modern computing

I see, thanks!

I see! But there’s still much more than service management, not all of it packaged into the “init” part of systemd. And each of these things need to be learned. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s just one more big headache on top of what Linux already is.

Also, out of curiosity from someone who barely touched Void - how do you create a custom service? Is writing run and finish scripts sufficient?

Fair point, and Void is cool in its own right, but there are good reasons it mostly falls under “obscure” distro category.

First is, of course, the systemd-free nature of it. Linux world absolutely needs systemd-free distros, but your average Linux user simply doesn’t know how to handle them properly, and the learning curve is somewhat steep. Besides, everyone and everything comes with an assumption you run systemd, so often times, you’ll be on your own figuring out the correct fix.

Second is a relatively small userbase. Void, while not being completely unknown, is not by any means a mainstream distro. We have those - some people still run Slackware, for example - but they quickly fall outside the scope of most users due to a relatively underdeveloped community, which is crucial for a Linux project.

This is why Void is often not even seen as an option.

KDE has trackpad gestures for 4 years now, but user configuration is still pretty much nonexistent. Don’t know how things are on GNOME’s end, but since you say it’s customizable there, I’ll give it a spin sometime!

To each their own indeed! I remember my ex specifically asked me to install GNOME as her first DE as she stepped into the Linux territory. Who was I to object? :)

Basic layout - maybe, but barely the experience.

• Can GNOME alter the system behavior beyond keybindings? Stock KDE can. You can make it not just look, but behave like GNOME to the point you won’t notice the difference.
• Can GNOME freely edit all buttons everywhere in any Adwaita app? KDE apps can, and KDE can always edit any top bar buttons of any apps and make them do whatever.
• Can GNOME easily spam as many elements as you want everywhere and edit the hell out of them to your heart’s content? Stock KDE can.
• Does GNOME offer graphical, WYSIWYG, zero-config, zero-code way to alter any look and feel element of the system? Stock KDE does.
• Can GNOME at least support some basic things like widgets without me having to reach for extensions? Stock KDE can.

KDE allows you to turn your system into anything you want without ever touching a single config, and this goes immeasurably beyond a basic layout. It all comes out of the box, too. I only faced GNOME after experiencing KDE, and it felt so heavily like walls and walls and walls everywhere.

Now, I’m not saying GNOME is bad, and this is not a fanboy contest. But customizability of all things is clearly a win on KDE’s side.

Sure. But they are still more limited in scope in my experience, not to mention security concerns and other problems.

For me, it’s “use it the dev way or no way at all” mentality baked in.

If you like the GNOME way of doing things, you’ll feel great. If you don’t like any aspect of it, it will be very hard to rectify.

Interesting that you had similar experience with KDE, because mine is on the contrary. Whatever I could envision, it could be made with KDE - even the stock one. Essentially, you can even recreate much of GNOME experience within it, if you so prefer.