literally just learned of it through some random reddit comment (the comment was about how it really fixes issues with AMD gpu drivers).
good? trustworthy? pros and cons? good for first linux os?
i’ve been lazy and have been riding out my windows 10 extension but this actually seems really easy with clear instructions to set up a dual boot and slowly hand over more of my hdd space to it. also seems pretty secure, open source, etc but i just want to make sure it’s not sus
Because of the way atomics work, they can start on Bazzite and rebase to kinoite if the project ever does stop progressing. But I don’t really know why people seem concerned about it other than the recent ‘drama’ where they kicked out a developer for being a transphobe and overall bigot.
They just formed the Open Gaming Collective to help standardize things across the Linux gaming space and had dozens of new developers jump in after recent press. Tons of older ones also returned after the bigoted dev was ousted.
ok this was the thing i was most worried about. glad to hear it can just be forked
a lot of the other discussions about it are way too hardcore for me to understand right now
It can be forked, but what I was referring to with ‘rebasing’ is that with atomic systems, you can essentially just swap your distro to a different one while keeping your user files intact. Like, with a single console command, you can swap between any of the Fedora Atomic variants on their website. Because Bazzite is just Fedora KDE Atomic + quality of life features like integrated drivers, codecs, and software, you can just rebase back to Fedora KDE Atomic/Fedora Kinoite at any time to be on the official Fedora distro and all you’ll lose is the extra stuff that Bazzite preinstalls for you.
The only issue is if you are trying to go from KDE to Gnome or vice versa because they store config files in the same place. So it’s technically recommended to re-install if going to a different desktop environment, but I’ve had no issues going from KDE to Niri to Cosmic and back.
But tldr: you can just move back to the official distro if anything ever happens to Bazzite with a single rebase command.