This post is to give my thanks to the Bazzite team for producing an OS that fully allowed me to move from Windows10 to a Linux Distro. Bazzite has so far done everything I require it to do to run a Tax Practice, from creating a VM of Win11 to run ONE program in Windows, to seamless rdp functionality. Between LibreOffice and the various alternatives to Window software I can run the entire practice in Bazzite. Not to mention Steam!
Again, just a big THANK YOU to the team!
Cool! Why did you choose Bazzite? As opposed to Aurora or Bluefin (not criticizing, just curious). Do you do your gaming on that system?
Really, I’m just gauging if people know about the other universal blue distros and whether they did any evaluation of the other universal blue images before going with Bazzite.
To be honest, I did not compare Bazzite to Aurora or Bluefin, nor did they appear in my list of linux distros when researching VM for Win11 and KVM. I am not unfamiliar with Linux and have toyed with Ubuntu, Mint, MX, Qubes(more zen), Debian and Fedora over the past 9 years. The closest distro to get me to make the change from Windows to Linux was Fedora. Bazzite seems to have the tools which support what I need almost out of the box. Steam being a plus for my games and it was easy to run KVM, and easy to setup RDP. I could probably, if I really wanted to spend the time, make Fedora work the same way, but I appreciate that Bazzite made it simple to use their OS as a daily driver. Is it perfect, not entirely. Still looking at how to mange or the Corsair components I have, keyboard, mouse and fans-watercooling. But so far no issued with them. No issues with work flow. Will say, Openvpn needs to get fixed. I am however looking at Proton anyway which can be installed from flatpack.
This is really good info! I’ve been wondering if there are people attracted to Bazzite because of all the press they get and don’t know about Aurora and Bluefin. Now you shouldn’t worry, Bazzite is stellar and it will be fine as a desktop.
The only real difference is that Bazzite is gamer-focused, so a lot of edge tools that gamers use exclusively are included. Aurora and Bluefin (KDE and GNOME desktop-oriented) are more workstation-oriented for everyday stuff and have fewer changes and are a little more “conservative”. You can still game quite well on both of them as Steam Flatpak works fine (I played Cyberpunk 2077 on my Aurora install).
All three are built from the same universal blue base, and the devs overlap and contribute to each other’s image version they maintain. They made 4 different images to accommodate slightly different use cases.
Thanks for the info on Aurora and Bluefin. The desktop environments sell me on the OS, KDE and Gnome of course being the ones i prefer. As of now, because of my work and time invested, Bazzite will be my daily driver for everything! I will also add, game look even better in Linux than in Windows and the resource consumption is lower.
I’ve been on team Red hat (+subsequent forks and derivatives) since Red hat 5.2 back in 1999. That was my first Linux distribution. I got the install CD out of the back of my Linux for dummies 2nd edition book!
Whenever I recommend Linux to people, especially if they’re new to Linux or if they’ve been burned because they’ve tried mint or Ubuntu or Debian
I always try to steer them into the red hat or derivatives pathway
I’ve always felt that RPM package management is superior (This also includes SuSE)
And I’ve always had such good positive experiences with just how red hat and the community just maintains their repositories and just how the system just works ™
So I always either recommend Nobara or Bazzite
I keep a close watch on all universal blue projects but I keep the closest watch on bazzite because I’m just so excited to see how the project matures and to see how much adoption it gets
I think once the steam machine gets released and valve gets to contribute all of these really game-changing updates and contributions that make all Windows apps just work ™ out of the box
Including little things that are still important like game controllers and gaming mice and all of the cool hotkeys on the mice and just the little quality of life improvements that a Windows user just expects to work ™
Like those weird firmware updater apps for people’s radar detectors or some strange Joy stack or computer accessory or even updating third party game controller firmware. I’m looking at you 8bitdo
I think everything will just improve so much once the steam machine finally gets released and I think that will kind of be the final straw that’s going to convert people into adopting Linux once and for all
If it’s not through the steam machine, it’s going to be through valves, software and contributions. That will then trickle to every single distribution, but I think it’s going to help bazzite the most
And then once that happens, everybody that says oh Linux is so hard. Linux is so scary. Linux’s not user friendly
I can pull out my trap card and say nah uh huhu you didn’t say the magic word (like Dennis nedry from Jurassic Park)
Anyways, I know that these are just optimistic thoughts but these are also my true beliefs and I really think because of your project you have made Linux really accessible to everybody
So I just want to thank everybody all of the universal blue people for making immutable red hat for everybody