Bazzite on Linux top usage list from Stream Survey.
MacOS 26, probably using a short name because itâs still in beta.
Not specific to Universal Blue, but flatpaks (and its security) Universal Blue images use a lot.
NerdNest build a Gaming pc and used Bazzite. Another one joins us!
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Not exclusively Universal Blue⌠but article warn about using small new coming distributions with one or two passionate contributors.
In my humble opinion article is little bit too pessimistic. My thoughts are, it is not wrong if users use new distributions, because that is the way to learn new technologies. But it is important to understand to use tools in the way they are easily movable to new distribution if required. If using flatpaks, containers and brew then all of them are easy to move to new distribution, if current distribution becomes unmaintainable.
Itâs just an outdated view. People think distributions are supposed to be this huge impossible thing because thatâs the culture people propagate. And itâs very important that you pick the right one and all of this.
Itâs one of the reasons we say weâre not a distribution, you take a base image and tweak it.
The support reasons no longer make sense either, it doesnât matter what you use, youâre using distro agnostic tools. systemctl, flatpak, git, brew, none of that has anything to do with my distro why do I need to care about my distro at all?
The old mindset is that you get help for your distro from your distro. We just send you to the right place out of the gate (upstream documentation) and try to keep our toolset to a minimum.
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Some peopleâs perception is that Linux distributions are like Zune players - if they die, you lose all your stuff.
In actuality, Linux distributions are more like cars - if yours dies, just transfer your fuzzy dice and pine scented air freshener to a new car and carry on.
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Article about Bazzar. Few of the userâs comments bellow the article are related to Universal Blue, Blufin, Aurora and Bazzite.
By the way, I see Bazzar is now installed in Blufin LTS as flatpak, but without Curated top section. Do we really want Bazzar to be installed from Flathub without Curated section? Is there an option to set âcuratedâ list for Blufin when Bazzar is installed from Flathub?
One more thing⌠what I donât like about Bazzar is "refreshâ functionality. Why does it refreshes in the frontend and not in the backend inside âTransactions Will Appear Hereâ. For example I would like to uninstall an app, but I need to wait for refresh to finish, why? Also why I am not allowed fo search the apps when refresh is in progress. Curated section will probably not change at all. Why isnât refresh made in silence in background and when ready the GUI is updated in split second.
I recommend to add a new feature request issue to the Bazaar Github. There are many improvement issues already there that are being worked on and discussed.