One bazzite ISO is from 8 to 9GB. Let’s say 8.5GB.
So to get to 1PB that’s like, more or less, 117647 downloads.I mean, I’m definitely at the end of my rope on Windows. Going to have to take the plunge sooner or later.
Dude it’s so worth it. I’ve tinkered with a few distros but Bazzite was a good mostly beginner friendly set up for gamers.
Sometimes Linux can be weird with Nvidia but that’s rapidly getting fixed and I haven’t have any problem in a long time.
I finally made the switch to Mint recently. My day to day experience is so much better. I set up a fresh Windows VM so I could keep using a few programs that don’t play well with wine, and even having to purchase a new activation key for it was totally worth it to have it segregated out from my day to day. And I’d guess that not all that many people really need the specialty stuff I do.
Do a little research on what you use daily and/or can’t live without, but I can confirm that it isn’t as complicated as you might think.
I have to ask, why buy a key for the VM at all? Windows functions perfectly fine without one, and you can always use MAS if you want to change your wallpaper or something.
Entropy reduction. I do a lot of development work and need Visual Studio to work. It’s a complex beast already, and I don’t need to deal with the headache of fighting some activation hack or running the risk that some DLL or feature is gimped and causes weird behavior in an inactivated state.
FYI there’s scripts that will fully activate windows, not via any local modifications to the OS, but via the official Microsoft activation servers.
I’ve got a Mint box that I use for file sharing and it gets by just fine. Set that up a year ago and the worst problem I had with the conversion was my old hard drive crapping out in the middle of it.
But I’m waiting for a nice long weekend to back everything up and do a proper upgrade. My computer doubles as a home theater and I know I’m going to have at least a day or two of “Why doesn’t thing thing that used to work do what its supposed to anymore?” while I juggle a grumpy wife who just wants to watch movies and a sneaky toddler who just wants to steal my keyboard.
I put pop!_os on my surface pro 8 in an hour a week ago, having used only windows or macos for the past decade. No issues. They’ve upstreamed enough stuff to the linux kernel that everything except camera worked even without the surface_linux kernel. Steam runs just fine on it, as do all the games I’ve tried so far (obviously hardware is trash for gaming, but hey, if it was playable on windows, it’ll probably be smoother on linux at this point). If linux works on a microsoft surface, there’s no way that it won’t work on whatever machine you happen to have.
Back up your files, pick a distro, unlock your bootloader, and just go for it. Only requirement is to know how to… Run commands in a terminal.
No regrets.
Do it. Don’t you want to run btop and feel badass?
Do I want someone to look over my shoulder and say “BTOP? That shit’s badass”? Yes.
Do I want to give up my nice, simple GUI heuristics and get a tattoo of all the esoteric commands down my forearms? Sadly, I am not actually cool enough for that shit.
No. I will accept my fate, install Mint, diminish, and go into the West.
Btw if typing scary, you can always use the KDE Task Manager like a Windows user. Just don’t let people see you.
Mission control is cool too
For what it’s worth, DEs like KDE have their own GUI resource monitor preinstalled. CLI programs like
btopare just there if you want to use them. See, for example, KDE’s.You will regret your weakness!
I was one of those. Downloaded last week.
Me too but haven’t installed yet. Bought a bigger pendrive during blackfriday and just stuffed it with ventoy and a bunch of isos
I think I owe them an apology because I installed it for about an hour before I got rid of it for debian
Same. Got it done just before turkey day. Got to play video games on the big screen!
I used to be afraid of immutable distros. I was wrong.
Love me some Fedora, why should I switch to an immutable version? The thing that gives me pause is I like being able to change my system when I need to and have it persist, which is from what I understand the exact opposite idea of immutables (but I may be misunderstanding, thus this comment asking lol).
It’s not so much that you can’t change parts of your system permanently. Think of it more so like the system partition of the OS is versioned like it’s a git repo. Each time you make a change to the OS filesystem the change is written to a new version of your OS that is layered onto the previous version, and then those changes are commited to the filesystem store, and a new boot entry is created.
So it’s a slightly more involved process to install new/update system packages (you have to reboot into the new version of the OS for the changes to take effect), but you gain a massive advantage in stability as a result (if the new version fails to boot or has other unexpected behavior, just reboot into the old, known working version).
Edit: I’m using Bazzite on two devices btw
So essentially you have a base system and you add what you need through flatpak, distrobox, homebrew, and if all else fails, by layering the packages on the base image with rpm-ostree. What you can’t do (that I’m aware of), is remove packages, or make bigger changes like adding another desktop environment aside what it came from. I mean, I guess you can do it by layering but it’s probably messy.
Configuration and customisation are not an issue: /etc and /var are not immutable of course.Distrobox is super cool btw, I knew it existed but Bazzite pushing me to use it was what I needed to finally try and appreciate it.
Same, I enjoy the classic shared library and package system which I still feel is superior to flatpak versions in most cases, even ignoring the technical aspects of each.
Tried silverblue once and it just felt more like android to me, and I even found myself using RPM layers almost immediately for core things that dont ship as Flatpak because its infeasible.
Plus Bazzite has its own release schedule which I feel like slightly removes the benefit of Fedora kernels being cutting edge, with critical packages updated almost as fast as Arch.
The good thing though is that it’s much more dummy proof, so I would feel comfortable letting anyone use it with zero experience, whereas I only recommend Fedora to those who have an inherent interest in Linux.
That’s good you have admitted your wrongs, unfortunately, you are still required to repent upon the altar of nix
I’m afraid I’m too old for that journey
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The Tom’s Hardware post linked in the article has an estimate of how many downloads it was:
From October 29 to November 28, team Bazzite is happy to share that the site had 730,000 unique visitors, and it served 1PB of data during a month, for the first time. How many Bazzite OS downloads does this imply? We looked at the various ISO installers on offer and noted that an Nvidia GPU friendly ISO was 7.5GB, and an AMD GPU-ready ISO 6.6GB. So, if we assume an average of 7.0GB per ISO, that would be about 143,000 Bazzite downloads – getting close to 150,000 new users, as a best-case scenario.
7.0GB per ISO
What the hell. Why so heavy
IIRC, it is a current limitation of rpm-ostree, which results in an ISO that is nearly double in size.
Because it downloads nothing and it’s got several softwares and tools bundled in
It’s got most stuff on it. They’d include the entire repo if they could, but a dvd only fits 8gb.
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what percentage of the downloaders burned a DVD to boot the ISO. I have to imgaine almost everyone is using USB sticks these days.
To fit all the gamin’
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