I tried running Bazzite for a few months, but just kept running into one weird issue after another. Went to Endeavor and they all went away overnight.
I’m technical enough that I can configure Arch from scratch, but simply can’t be bothered. I just need my computer to work. Every day.
I felt like when I was working with Arch, and I’m sure it’s operator error, it was like maintaining a starship with a dozen systems that could individually go wrong and I was responsible for all of them. Endeavor was fully setup with no weirdness in less than 30 minutes.
You… heavily overestimate a grandma with 0 technical skills.
It can be installed in 20 minutes with a youtube video by a person with 0 technical knowledge that is comfortable using a computer and doesn’t get scared seeing a terminal.
I had cachyos for 6 months no issues than the last 6 months it’s been freezing constantly, was fine on an older kernel, but fans and performance mode didnt work, stuck on high or low (could swap on latest rc kernel, but itd freeze) Tried bazzite and so far no freezes (except when using usb c to display port but I had bsod on windows doing that in vr and I think thats just a laptop hardware problem)
Had the opposite experience, tried Endevour first, must have done something wrong as it started running like ass/freezing up constantly requiring a full reboot to come back.
Swapped to bazzite and didn’t have that issue again, I did get to learn more about how to work with mutable distros too.
Ultimately didn’t matter much as that laptop died about a year later anyway, it won’t turn on at all anymore, good run of like 10 years tho.
These odd freezes, especially when moving files at scale, is something I struggled with on all Arch-based distros I had installed: Arch itself, EndeavourOS, Manjaro.
Either Arch doesn’t like my hardware in some way, or it’s just something Arch users struggle with.
Any other distros worked just fine in that regard.
The root filesystem is read only, packages are installed on the user level through for example flakpak. And a lot of time system updates come as a whole new root filesystem, essentially making broken updates impossible.
I tried running Bazzite for a few months, but just kept running into one weird issue after another. Went to Endeavor and they all went away overnight.
I’m technical enough that I can configure Arch from scratch, but simply can’t be bothered. I just need my computer to work. Every day.
I felt like when I was working with Arch, and I’m sure it’s operator error, it was like maintaining a starship with a dozen systems that could individually go wrong and I was responsible for all of them. Endeavor was fully setup with no weirdness in less than 30 minutes.
Arch can be configured without archinstall in 20 minutes by a YouTube video even if you’re a grandma with 0 technical skills.
Let’s all stop pretending that having it manually installed means anything and just use whatever does it for us. Like, well, Endeavour.
You… heavily overestimate a grandma with 0 technical skills.
It can be installed in 20 minutes with a youtube video by a person with 0 technical knowledge that is comfortable using a computer and doesn’t get scared seeing a terminal.
Fair enough. Honestly, fear is the main barrier
If you can open a YouTube video, open a terminal and not scream in horror, you fill all the prerequisites.
I had cachyos for 6 months no issues than the last 6 months it’s been freezing constantly, was fine on an older kernel, but fans and performance mode didnt work, stuck on high or low (could swap on latest rc kernel, but itd freeze) Tried bazzite and so far no freezes (except when using usb c to display port but I had bsod on windows doing that in vr and I think thats just a laptop hardware problem)
Had the opposite experience, tried Endevour first, must have done something wrong as it started running like ass/freezing up constantly requiring a full reboot to come back.
Swapped to bazzite and didn’t have that issue again, I did get to learn more about how to work with mutable distros too.
Ultimately didn’t matter much as that laptop died about a year later anyway, it won’t turn on at all anymore, good run of like 10 years tho.
These odd freezes, especially when moving files at scale, is something I struggled with on all Arch-based distros I had installed: Arch itself, EndeavourOS, Manjaro.
Either Arch doesn’t like my hardware in some way, or it’s just something Arch users struggle with.
Any other distros worked just fine in that regard.
Someone could write a book…
The Joys of Distro-Hopping
bazzite isnt in this meme?
The post I’m replying to mentions their experience with Bazzite lol
sorry, i had just woken up
Same experience with bazzite.I had a very strange issue with packages completly gone after using LACT to experiment and managing to freeze my os.
TBH I realised immutable systems aren’t for me and I am not a linux noob, so I immediately went back to Arch and never looked back.
archinstall is amazing btw. Best installer by far IMHO. shit free, takes 30s to setup an arch system with great defaults. Nothing beats it for me.
Edit: for me someone using “I use void btw” would make more sense.
What does immutable mean? I’ve been using Linux for decades and never heard it until recently.
The root filesystem is read only, packages are installed on the user level through for example flakpak. And a lot of time system updates come as a whole new root filesystem, essentially making broken updates impossible.
Garuda is an Arch based non immutable distro with a similar gaming and performance focus to Bazzite. It’s where I went when Bazzite felt off to me.
For anyone thinking of a switch, it’s worth a look.