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I've been using Bazzite Desktop for 4 months now and it has been my everything. Windows is just abandonware now even with every update they push. It is clunky and hard to manage.

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Isn't bazzite a gaming focused distribution ? It seems weird to install it on a PC that does 'my everything'.

I wouldn't make excel spreadsheet on the steam deck for instance.

Why not? It has full desktop mode with Plasma and can be docked like PC

Bazzite is advertised for gamers, however from my understanding it's just Fedora Atomic wrapped up to work well on steamdeck adjacent hardware and gaming is a top priority. You'd still be receiving the same level of quality you would expect from Fedora/RHEL (I would think).

Precisely, I like it's commitment to the Fedora Atomic. Fedora is in my opinion the best user experience Linux out there, not just because Linus Torvalds said it was his favorite. Probably not the best server or best to base a console OS on, but as a daily driver consistency is more important. Keeping things in flatpaks makes it easy to manage what is installed too.

Gaming or not, stability is important. An OS that focuses on gaming will typically focus on stability, neither bleeding edge or lag behind in support. Has to update enough to work with certain games and behind enough to not have weird support isues.

So Bazzite in my opinion is probably one of the best user experience flavors of Fedora around.

Yes you can do more than gaming on Bazzite.

I think you’ve forgotten or aren’t aware that before 3d graphics cards took over, people would buy new video cards to ostensibly make excel faster but then use them to play video games. It was an interesting time with interesting justifications for buying upgrades.

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