Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now
Aurora sitting down there at the bottom of the desktop OSs. I’d love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.
If you’re not aware, switching between different Universal Blue OSs is super easy, with one caveat. Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.
Switching from a GNOME OS to a KDE OS or vice versa is problematic.
I did that a few times already on different installs and never had any problems, besides the window decorations/ theming being off and needing to set them again. What issues could be expected?
I’d love to some of the Bazzite users migrate to Bluefin or Aurora.
Why?
To spread the love, basically.
I’ve been using Pop OS and it’s been pretty good but I’m not super tied to it, would Bazzite be better at all?
Thanks gaming jesus
Yes… ha ha ha… YES!
(i dont even use bazzite but love that for them)
Mostly all thanks to Gamers Nexus, I’d wager.
Also thanks to windows for continuing to double down on being dogshit
Gamers rock
I’m doing my part.
I set up bazzite in a VM and passed my GPU thru it.
Now I’ve got a nuc clone in my office with bazzite on it as well and it’s just a moonlight client. But it’s silent. Or damn close. The GPU is two floors away, I hear nothing!
That was two separate downloads, too…Nvidia-gnone and gnome-standard.
I was on Nobara a couple months ago and liked it…but a colleague piqued my interest on immutable distros and now here I am.
Immutable?
Really hard to fuck up
Traffic cost must be insane. Hope they have good hosting and won’t be paying through the nose and go broke.
Should be manageable and it is probably less than you would imagine. Just checked real quick: the isos load from download.bazzite.gg, which is a Cloudflare IP. So they are either using it as CDN or even more likely use Cloudflares R2 storage for isos - which would mean they pay for storage (~15$/TB) and operations, but not for egress. This is seems ideal for few but huge files.
So for a single iso (~7 GB) they would pay 0,105$ for storage monthly and additionally 0,36$ per million of class B operations (reads/downloads). Of course they host more than one ISO, but for this example it would have been downloaded about ~150000 times to reach the petabyte.
So yeah, the ISO download is probably less of a problem. (Disclaimer: lot of assumptions, check in with a bazzite dev for clarity)
Can always stick it up as a torrent if its a concern too
Doesn’t $0.36 times 150,000 downloads come out to 54 thousand dollars, which is a lot of money?
Sorry, my bad. 0,36$ per million class b operations. Of course there will be slightly more operations than downloads (e.g. people/bots sarting downloads and aborting them), but still probably cheap.
yeah i mean for every 1 active user we have 1250 requests to download here. lots of bots. i dont know if they count upgrade pulls (each version is essentially a full iso that gets pulled to your computer), but if so that means with each update we’ll see even more data draw from all the users upgrading.
I’m surprised they don’t have torrent downloads for it. That would save on bandwidth costs and it’s more reliable since torrent clients verify the checksum and automatically redownload any corrupted blocks.
I would seed…
Cloudflare would host it for effectively free
Bazzite is great. I wish I’d tried it sooner. It is great for a “steam machine” or just as a very stable regular desktop.
For general user maybe but honestly I would prefer kinoite ,I don’t like bazzite replacing all their apps with gtk4 libadwaita while KDE written in qt apps looks much better that’s why I switched to kinoite
Kinoite is also great and usually what I recommend someone coming from Windows who wants a distro that “Just works”.
i like it too, but the ublue scripts are extremely handy so i hate leaving anything ublue
I spent a little bit deciding between Bazzite and Kinoite when I got my PC and ultimately went with Kinoite since I still have some work stuff to do every now and then. Not a single issue on my end so far.
Cool thing is you can rebase anytime to any other flavour you want with one command and keep everything that’s yours!
Thanks, Steve
Installed this on my Legion Go recently, it’s amazing.
This is amazing news. Hopefully they’re getting enough donations to cover this.
