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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27088905

There will be one for developers and another one for game developers.

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[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago

The marketing sounded interesting, but after a bit of digging I realized I'm not the target audience. As a turn-key solution for non-Linux people however it seems to be making great strides.

[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Bazzite is stuffed full of polish, especially the Gnome variant and, little known to me at the time, they have a whole set of non-gaming-related tools in the background for developers who use containers (distrobox, podman etc), which is exactly what I use for my job.

I was so impressed that I have installed it as my main OS on my laptop and have replaced SteamOS with it on my SteamDeck.

This distro is one of the best I have used. It is definitely one to keep an eye on.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 15 hours ago

I love Bazzite and Bluefin. I use the former on my personal machines and the latter on my work laptop. I wonder how Bazzite DX will compare to Bluefin? I'm also curious if there's a difference between Bluefin and Bluefin DX or if they just started tacking on the extra letters recently?

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The future is looking bright for bazzite

[–] gruhuken@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I just installed it today! It's so easy to set up and use, games have been working right out of the box and I like the security of rollback updates. I'm brand new to Linux and i think it has the potential to convert people over

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It started as an experiment to get off the Windows 11 train wreck for me and now I can't imagine ever going back. Linux is so far ahead, it's not even a competition.

[–] loserville@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean that’s a bit of a general statement. But Some distros are very good, for laptops however? Power management is a chore and most fixes for that don’t work that well on either Bluefin or Bazzite.

[–] asap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I get 10+ hours on Aurora-DX + AMD laptop. I think AMD might be the part which makes the big difference.

No special config, just out of the box.

Oh awesome! I looked into rolling my own image to combine Aurora-DX with Bazzite about a month or so ago, but I've been really busy since and hadn't made much of a start. This is really exciting to see, will rebase over on my desktop as soon as NVIDIA gets support.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Amazing stuff Bluefin-DX really changed the way I setup and maintain my progjects in a good way.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you do differently? I've been on Bluefin for 2 years but still never bothered with dev containers or anything

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Generally take a more containerised approach to my development, before I just had one big folder for projects and various others. It made me figure out how to be more organised especially with dependancies and folder layout.