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• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah I dunno about all that.

  That’s been my experience across a couple different computers, one of which was a bit weak, and the other a very capable gaming laptop, both of which just felt sluggish compared to normal distros. This appears to be a fairly common observation of Bazzite, from what I’ve seen.

  Bazzite isn’t limited, there are just different ways to do things.

  I mostly agree, but I’d say it generally requires more research to accomplish certain things, and documentation for achieving those things on bazzite is far more limited compared to mainstream distros. I think Bazzite excels for people either doing simple things, such as just couch gaming, or desktop gaming + browser use and if everything is available by Flathub. It’s also good for people who are more experienced or willing to tinker.

  But IMHO, at least currently, immutable distros aren’t ideal for the average user who might do more than gaming, or have older printers than need a driver from the manufacturer, or who may install things that aren’t in flatpaks (like a musician using Reaper). I think for now (because I do think immutable distros will be the mainstream in the future), normal newbie distros like Mint are still ideal since they cover the most use-cases and have the most documentation and application support.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I imagine I could give you search results for “(any distro) slow boot” and get you a list of similar results.

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    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That true, though most of the results for Linux Mint slow boot show people finding it anomalous and try to help fix it, where as with Bazzite, most of the comments say that’s normal and they experience it too. The consensus I’ve seen suggests that Fedora Atomic boots slower than other distros, and thus Bazzite inherits that slow boot as well.

      I’m not trying to suggest that Bazzite sucks or anything, it provides some very unique advantages such as the Deck mode, but at least in my experience, Fedora based immutable distros are slower on my hardware. If it’s not on yours, then I’m glad to hear that, but it its been very repeatable on my end.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, I dunno, I’ve just never had that experience with it. Maybe it depends on hardware.

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