Generated via ublue’s countme script https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg
Here is Fedora’s upstream graph to compare:
I thought it was just my YouTube algorithm showing me install bazzite. Hehe guess there was a trend
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.
Let’s see, Microsoft kills 10, which nobody really loved but they were willing to tolerate. Microsoft insists they move to 11, which is universally reviled.
Gamers predictably say “fuck this” and install the first gaming-oriented alternative to windows 11 they can find on Bing, and then this happens.
Has Microsoft realized the Intel-level deep shit they are in yet?
Microsoft doesn’t actually care because most of their revenue is from corporate environments tied to the OS and their cloud offerings. Everyday users are nothing to them, which is why they don’t try harder to keep you from using unactivated copies of windows. You are nothing
5k users down 999,995k left to go!
Mind you that’s only Bazzite, Zorin has been making large gains as well.
5k in 2 months isn’t a lot.
Not if we look at it as linear growth. But in the environment we are in, this has the potential to be exponential growth.
Remember when Intel intentionally ignored the mobile market?
But the mobile market is filled in now and android is the windows of mobile
This isnt a magical new market.
But a major player is basically leaving it.
? Which player?
Microsoft
I think it may be dawning on them. I’m on an international holiday & didn’t get time to faff about installing Linux before I left. But I discovered the day before my flight that Microsoft has extended its offer of security updates for another year to individuals as well as businesses free of charge, and signed up. Last time I’d looked I’m sure ESU was for businesses only.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates
The bit that made me laugh was: “ESU enrollment does not provide other types of fixes, feature improvements, or product enhancements.” Phew!
I’ll crack on with upgrading to Linux when I get home, nice little winter project.
Man. Props to the team. At least from my perspective (I’m not into distro hoping anymore) they came out of nowhere and people absolutely loved them. I should give them a test on a VM, specially since I’ve been recommending against them because I didn’t think they are a good fit for llinux newcomers
Bazzite cured my desire to distro hunt ever again
Real
This is a Linux distro focused on gaming.
In the future, please say what the project is for when you post about it.
Started my EndeavoursOS gaming PC. Oh no, my new-Steam lists the game as windows only?
Proceeds to install proton and related software and bam, I can game.
I know it’s not Bazzite but there is sure as hell little reason not to use Linux any more except for enterprise computers and laptops.
Steam installs proton on its own when you just click the button insettings so you don’t even need to install proton. Just works
I had 3 files installed and one was proton when I downloaded my first game.
I started with EndeavourOS as well (but have since switched to Bazzite). Enjoy, it was a fun time :)
Gonna install CachyOS tomorrow.
I know I’m late but …
spoiler
It took me a while to backup all my game saves and memes from Windows 10 because Proton Drive limits you to 2GB unless you pay and if you don’t pay your subscription they delete your email address. Could’ve gone with another provider but I was due for a spring cleaning anyway.
I was also trying to get through my Itch library to save me the hassle of figuring out how to work Lutris but then the Steam Next Fest came and I gave up on clearing my backlog since I have a hard deadline of the next Steam Hardware Survey.
Perhaps a bit unconventional, but CloudFlare R2 gives 10GB of free storage accessible as S3 with
rclone.I know I have other options, Google Drive for example, I just didn’t want to use anything new so I did things the hard way.
The amount of stuff i read about it ,i’d thought 30 Million! Lot of noise about it out there.
What happened the 3rd week of April? Fedora got a massive spike there. The other one has a small bump at that time as well
Fedora 42 got released: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42/
That’s amazing. Been using it for 6 months, loving it.
I did my first fedora atomic install yesterday. I’m doing my part!
Lemmy has a similar number of active users and makes about 3K . That money would be good for the ecosystem and could help fund upstream projects (I am sure wine could use the money for example). But they will have to use fundraising methods similar to lemmy to reach that number (popup, good message etc)
The donate page is kinda a mess IMO to be honest. There should be one organisation to donate to otherwise this creates overchoice.
I started trying out Bazzite yesterday and it’s been great so far! HDR is not as simple to get working as their marketing would make you think, but once you know what to do it’s not so bad.
Al’s I’m having trouble getting OpenRGB working correctly.
But other than that it’s been pretty good. It’s harder to tweak than Ubuntu (what I was previously using) but works much much better out of the box.
If you’re on a Gigabyte mobo openRGB may not work at all.
Open RGB is a absolutely fucking shit show.
Then again RGB in windows is barely better then a fucking shit show.
RGB controls in general is just bad on everything.
Honestly.
On payday I’m running to the local electronics shop for a breadboard. I’ll make my own RGB controller. Fuck drivers.
It’s working for just setting static colors, but when I try to install plugins it doesn’t show up at all. I wanted to use HardwareSync and maybe Effects.
You have to find the right plugin version. The ones on the website use different versions than the one installed by ujust. I can’t remember where I found them but it was a github repo
I found an older version that sounded like it should be compatible on the OpenRGB webpage but it didn’t work. I suppose I should look further. Thanks for the tip!
NP, I figured it out by looking through the logs, I think you can turn them on in the settings
I’ve been on Linux for a bit. I was fedora for a long time and it’s totally fine but I tried out Bazzite for gaming and it’s been really good experience. I like tinkering but I never played as much game time because I was tinker with it. Now it mostly just work and that’s awesome.
There are a few things I don’t like about Bazzite, like ujust for example, but it’s still worth it to me.
I’m a long-time Mint guy, my current desktop is Fedora KDE because Wayland, and I’m looking at Bazzite for my old computer/HTPC but it doesn’t support my old GTX-1080 GPU, I might get a low-tier Radeon for it (I don’t want to buy an Intel card and fuck Nvidia’s butt, that GTX-1080 was literally the only GPU available to me in 2020).
I so badly want to do the “old man yells at cloud” meme and be angry that Bazzite is so popular.
I want to do it, I’m resisting hnnnngg
Atomic bad because different and I don’t like things that are different. 🧓
It’s too bad that we’re holding a gun to your head to make you switch. 😔🔫
😱 😢
I’m surprised Aurora is so low on the list. I’ve been loving it on my Dev laptop. Huuuuge improvement over Ubuntu. It feels so much snappier, ironically.
Do you know whats the difference between aurora and bazzite? Its from the same team and looks a bit similiar so I am a bit confused about it
Supposedly its focused on the Dev experience rather than the gamer experience but I also do development on Bazzite without issue. So I guess the real answer is “not much”
Thanks, I am using bazzite right now maybe I’ll try aurora next time I need a linux install
There’s a flavor of bazzite made for developing now, Bazzite-dx
