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all in on Linux as my main OS

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I have decided to sell my 2 Windows desktops (1 is mine and the other is my Wifes) and both of us will now use a BC-250 as our main desktop with Bazzite for now. I have been Daily driving this for about 2 weeks. I don't miss Windows 1 bit. I don't game nearly as much and the BC-250 has plenty of power and with the dynamic memory allocation... I can use all 16GB for system ram when needed. I have been super impressed how stable this BC-250 has been with Bazzite. My Kids computers might be next. But we shall see :p
 
Nice. I don't miss Windows, except for gaming, but I have a Switch 2 and PS5 so I don't really care. I have Linux on quite a few old systems and it makes them a joy to use despite their age. I hope you enjoy your new set up. I've never heard of Bazzite, but it looks really cool. I bookmarked their page to play with the distro later. Always interested to see gaming progress on Linux.
 
Bazzite is an immutable gaming distro based on Fedora, which is similar in functionality to SteamOS (Arch). I'm not a fan of immutability, but good for anyone who wants such.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Bazzite is an immutable gaming distro based on Fedora, which is similar in functionality to SteamOS (Arch). I'm not a fan of immutability, but good for anyone who wants such.
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so far it's been extremely good so far. Everything I need is either built in or available via a flat pack. I might try out catchy OS on a spare m.2 just to experiment. but this asrock bc-250 has been super smooth in all desktop tasks. The only downside is the limited de-coding and encoding limitations
 
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Shoganai said:
Nice. I don't miss Windows, except for gaming, but I have a Switch 2 and PS5 so I don't really care. I have Linux on quite a few old systems and it makes them a joy to use despite their age. I hope you enjoy your new set up. I've never heard of Bazzite, but it looks really cool. I bookmarked their page to play with the distro later. Always interested to see gaming progress on Linux.
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have a switch 2 as well and just got a PS5 for a dedicated sim rig. was way cheaper than to build the equivalent on the PC side due to some games only running on Windows
 
Vengance_01 said:
so far it's been extremely good so far. Everything I need is either built in or available via a flat pack. I might try out catchy OS on a spare m.2 just to experiment. but this asrock bc-250 has been super smooth in all desktop tasks. The only downside is the limited de-coding and encoding limitations
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What decoding and encoding limitations are you referring to? I recommend CachyOS over Bazzite.
 
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Mazzspeed said:
What decoding and encoding limitations are you referring to? I recommend CachyOS over Bazzite.
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Lets put Linux to the side... Tell more about the BC-250... Did you fab your own enclosure... What PSU... Details..give us a rundown.. this is an intriguing project 🤗
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
Seems crazy for Sony to totally ignore the inherent hardware video capabilities & go pure software mode.
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Well they were probably ok with getting some return on rejected PS5 chips... they probably didn't want them being used to make PC gaming boxes with PS5 hardware either. lol Blocking basic video decode would make them less attractive for that.
If they were used for mining they didn't care zero effect on PS5.
 
They did the same thing with "Linux Mode" on the PS2. Lots of stuff was locked down. I think they (hackers) did open some of it up eventually.
 
Nobu said:
They did the same thing with "Linux Mode" on the PS2. Lots of stuff was locked down. I think they (hackers) did open some of it up eventually.
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If you mean PS3, I know that the custom firmware "distros" have a ton of stuff unlocked for Linux & other functionality.
 
Nobu said:
No, was talking about PS2. There was a similar functionality in PS3, but the architecture was pretty different, and I don't think it was as locked down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100524023205/http://playstation2-linux.com:80/
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Sony removed Linux functionality at some point on the PS3, which is why the custom firmware devs have re-enabled a lot of locked out features.

Hopefully Vengance_01 might be able to utilize the modified firmware for the BC-250 to get around Sony's lockdown trend.
 
Microsoft gutted Bazzite, I don't expect much for it going forward.
 
Axman said:
No, Microsoft runs Bazzite and fired the main hardware developer a couple of months ago.
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I think you're very confused. Microsoft doesn't own or run Bazzite and has no affiliation with it whatsoever. Bazzite isn't going anywhere.
 
MikeTrike said:
Is this what you mean?
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Yes.

Shoganai said:
I think you're very confused.
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No. A Microsoft employee fired the lead hardware developer for Bazzite. I'm not sure what Microsoft's interests in Bazzite were in the first place, but given their commitment to "Windows Lite" and then shivving Bazzite I think we can draw some inferences.

CachyOS, SteamOS, Omarchy, Arctix, Devuan, there are a bunch of other distros out there that show more far-sighted thinking and promise.

MikeTrike said:
You misspelled opinionated.
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It's a fact, not an opinion.
 
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Axman said:
Yes.



No. A Microsoft employee fired the lead hardware developer for Bazzite. I'm not sure what Microsoft's interests in Bazzite were in the first place, but given their commitment to "Windows Lite" and then shivving Bazzite I think we can draw some inferences.

CachyOS, SteamOS, Omarchy, Arctix, Devuan, there are a bunch of other distros out there that show more far-sighted thinking and promise.



It's a fact, not an opinion.
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Instead of making things up, which you seem to be doing, please provide a single source backing up what you're saying, because I can't find any.
 
Axman said:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/...-on-the-confusion-with-bazzite-linux-support/

Geez.
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This has nothing to do at all in anyway with Microsoft.

I mean if Microsoft was behind any consumer Linux distros... I am going to press doubt they choose the one based on IBM Linux. (fedora is red hat, red hat is IBM)

The article your posting is talking about a issue of confusion Bazzite ran into a little while ago.

One of their main guys was talking to a Chinese hardware company. They got the impression from him that it would be cool to say they had official Bazzite support. This engineer in question hadn't really cleared that with anyone else on the project. So when asked the other people where like what? huh no I don't think so. It was a big thing for them I guess, they ended up booting the engineer who had possibly given the ok to a Chinese company possibly in return for some gear or even cash.

At least that is my understanding. Frankly I don't follow their project all that closely it doesn't turn my gears personally. lol I 100% has nothing to do with MS however. Yes someone with a day job at MS was involved in its creation. So what. Their are people that work at Google that do development work on Arch on the weekend... that doesn't make Arch a Google product.
 
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Whether or not you believe that, Bazzite still fired their lead hardware developer. It's a dead end.
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So … moving goalposts? Bazzite had a huge update just this month. Bro, I don’t even use Bazzite. I’m just looking at the internet, including your article, and it doesn’t say anything you’re saying.
 
Axman said:
Whether or not you believe that, Bazzite still fired their lead hardware developer. It's a dead end.
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Well as Bazzite is a software distribution I think they'll be ok.

Hey I'm not in on immutable distros anyway. Don't really care about them at all. But ya the guy they had working as their hardware dev was kind of a tool. So they booted him. I know people tried to make a bigger drama out of it then it needed to be. End of the day if you volunteer time to doing some Linux community stuff... don't try and enrich yourself on the side. It makes the project look stupid. The chinese hardware company didn't even do anything wrong, they assumed they were corresponding with someone on behalf of the project. And they could have been if the dude had just let everyone else know what was going on.
 
Axman said:
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/suspended-contributor/11300

Goalposts have always been in the same position. They fired their main guy.
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That post just says a maintainer was removed for code of conduct violations. It doesn’t say they were a lead developer or that the project is a dead end. This was also in December. Their last big update was in April and their project page is frequently maintained. I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove here but your conclusions don’t align with reality.
 
Axman said:
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/suspended-contributor/11300

Goalposts have always been in the same position. They fired their main guy.
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Was hardly their "main guy".
As others have said that was 3 or 4 months ago. They are releasing and updating as normal.
They have a very strong community of contributors.

https://bazzite.gg/
I find it an odd thing to do to point out who your volunteer maintainers work for during the day... BUT whatever not my distro.
Yes of their 150 contributors some work during the day at Intel, MS, AWS, Canonical (not sure if that is funny or strange) and others.

Again go read about what the guy in question did and I think you'll understand why they asked him to leave. He was not some non replaceable unicorn.

You would also be shocked to know how many MS employees maintain various Linux and open source things in their own time. People are allowed to have hobbies.
 
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