Any other Linux users here? And has anyone fully migrated?

[SpikeSlania]

Bazzite sucks, no one will convince me otherwise, thought bazzite was debian based though.
i mentioned the 3 most known distros of fedora, at least the most known ones i knew, hence why i mentioned the 3 i did remember.

Bazzite get's so much support i think because it checks the right boxes, it's easy to use and install, fairly windows-like and will work on gaming handhelds, i still think it sucks though for anyone who knows what they are doing.

Yeah, Bazzite is part of the Fedora Silverblue family, so that whole Immutable Fedora side branch stuff that I rather not use. I have Bazzite on my couch media rig for now until Valve does a proper SteamOS for media center desktop pcs. Chimaera OS and Nobara are also options for that.

I also left pika os out of the debian stack btw, which is another gaming distro.

Used PikaOS for about a month or two. Enjoyed my time with it but eventually just wanted to have a base distro and do my own thing. It's really nice how the devs of Nobara, Pika, Cachy, and Bazzite all work together and help each other sharing various programs they developed.

Oh dear, I hope those goobers are not at it again
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Most likely it was probably the guy who was releasing malware into the Arch repos and his programs got caught but I can't just rule out Manjaro with their track record!

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

oh ok, so you have some sort of utility/program that builds a generic tarball for you on your distro? Again, I am curious, because that is pretty cool. Or are you actually a slackware user that builds everything from scripts? Even more impressive.

no you keep understanding the exact opposite of what I am trying to say

I am speaking about this kind of tarball https://cdn1.waterfox.net/waterfox/releases/6.6.1/Linux_x86_64/waterfox-6.6.1.tar.bz2

 

[Jdan-S]

I was reluctant to move from XP to Vista, so I tried out Linux Mint in the 2010s and have used it ever since. It's my daily driver on my work laptop. However, I still have a couple of mini PCs pre-installed with Windows for gaming (and in case I need to do something that's Windows only). Only recently have I been trying out what PC gaming is like on Linux when I purchased a Steam Deck a couple of months ago.

This also meant that I gave up tools like Photoshop 7 and learn alternatives like GIMP, MyPaint, and Krita. It took time and effort, but now that Adobe products are subscription-based, learning how not to be reliant on them paid off.

 

[PepThePerson]

no you keep understanding the exact opposite of what I am trying to say

I am speaking about this kind of tarball https://cdn1.waterfox.net/waterfox/releases/6.6.1/Linux_x86_64/waterfox-6.6.1.tar.bz2

Not every piece of software has tarballed binaries though. Sometimes you gotta build or mess around with packages for other package managers :/
Steam's got a Debian package, but I don't know about tarballs for it for example. On one hand I get the appeal, on another package managers are just really easy to use and updating isn't the Windows mess of "every program has an updater" or "you gotta check for updates and update yourself".

...tbf though, I never installed Slackware anywhere. Maybe it's not as bad as I make it out to be, I just think package managers are comfy :)

 

[diapered]

no you keep understanding the exact opposite of what I am trying to say

I am speaking about this kind of tarball https://cdn1.waterfox.net/waterfox/releases/6.6.1/Linux_x86_64/waterfox-6.6.1.tar.bz2

Oh ok, sorry for misunderstanding. Was curious.

I was reluctant to move from XP to Vista, so I tried out Linux Mint in the 2010s and have used it ever since. It's my daily driver on my work laptop. However, I still have a couple of mini PCs pre-installed with Windows for gaming (and in case I need to do something that's Windows only). Only recently have I been trying out what PC gaming is like on Linux when I purchased a Steam Deck a couple of months ago.

This also meant that I gave up tools like Photoshop 7 and learn alternatives like GIMP, MyPaint, and Krita. It took time and effort, but now that Adobe products are subscription-based, learning how not to be reliant on them paid off.

Mint is also the first distro for me that made linux "enjoyable". I had used Mandriva and Debian before to much frustration. Probably not those distro's fault, as I was also new to linux at the time. But switching to mint made things much easier. I don't use mint anymore, but it was pretty good times.