bazzite is imo by far the safest and most usable distro for beginners. if you fuck something up with your distro you can easily solve the issue without data loss by typing “rpm-ostree reset”. thats it, it doesnt get as simple as this anywhere else. bazzite’s dev team also tests each image and makes sure its configuration works before pushing it to you, and since each image is exactly the same you basically have your own IT team.

It’s too bad that we’re holding a gun to your head to make you switch. 😔🔫

Real

Would be great for mental health

It’s image based, so it’s very hard for a beginner to fuck it up, and if they do its one or two lines of commands to fix 99% of the time.

eg rpm-ostree rebase or rpm-ostree reset

I think its hitting a critical mass, that much upward growth is very encouraging to see. I was able to convince a handful of friends to switch to linux due to windows getting so bad, they liked the extremely simple approach Bazzite has. I think its better than Mint in this regard, Fedora has come such a long way.

Mmm sometimes if you don’t update for a long time you can’t really update at all without following specific instructions. Nobara for instance had a major breakage between 41 and 42 versions that required you to debug from a boot drive iirc. One of my friends just had debian break on their not very used laptop and it can’t upgrade. Bazzite will not have these issues, image based upgrades solve the broken upgrade and config drift problems. And if for some reason it does break, it’s always solved by a one line rpm-ostree rebase command. Whereas with other distros the process to fix it is very involved usually

Its not particularly crazy, most things can be installed via flathub. If something isnt there, install it through distrobox (you can install things through the AUR, packages like rpm and deb, etc). And if that doesn’t work, install the app directly through rpm-ostree (only thing I did this with was a vpn app, you can point to a .rpm file for this). I use flathub for the vast majority of things, I think I only have two apps installed outside of it.

What’s great is nothing ever breaks this way. Ever. It all works. Broken upgrades haven’t happened to me after a year of using this, meanwhile I had plenty on debian and small distros like manjaro, mint, cachyos, nobara.

Based on commits both projects have a core dev team of around 5 members, organic maps has a lot more small contributors however likely because its an older and more known project. Comaps seems to be solving more important issues with routing though imo

Yeah I think mint advice is extremely dated, Bazzite or base Fedora is the way to go

It’s truly a fantastic distro. Fedora atomic is very much an attempt at making Linux as easy and secure as Android. I recommend it for beginners and experts alike, truly awesome tech going on.

Bazzite

Maybe a field for number of servers currently?

You don’t necessarily need to make your own NixOS flakes, you can use ones maintained by others

It’s great for homeservers

Frankly the open source ai projects for krita are better than Photoshop

Yeah that’s fair

Just use duckduckgos alias it’s unlimited

Do an atomic distro like bazzite, all the nerds are basically open sourcing IT with it by preconfiguring everything for you for every update.

As simply as possible, it (mostly) locks down system files and confines users to the user directory. This makes the operating system very stable and hard to break, it also creates a reproducible testing environment which significantly helps developers with bug testing software. For the vast majority of users, this is a positive, though users that want to tinker with the system files a lot may run into a lot of blockers. Upgrades are likely to be very stable, and you will not have system file config drift issues that often break long running traditional linux distros and force the user to intervene.