My fiancee runs bazzite, this was her choice but she’s horribly non techy. I often have to help her with tech support but I don’t use Linux, I’ve been thinking of switching over just so I can learn and fucking keep her PC from breaking all the time but I don’t want to use bazzite. Would I learn by using what I hear it’s based off of? (Fedora)
Yes, you could learn Baz by learning Fedora, but that’s a lot of extra work with only adjacent payoffs. I learned Baz by putting it on an HTPC and I’ve found it pretty viable for many usecases. My suggestion would be to use Baz on something to get the hang of it, then reinstance to whatever you’re actually going to use. It isn’t hard to figure out the basics in a day or two of use.
Not really.
Would help you playing around with a Fedora Distrobox Image.
But DistroShelf is a GUI for that and should be pre-installed.
Assuming default Bazzite is installed: You’d be better off learning Kinoite.
And rpm-ostree.
If Gnome variant: Silverblue.
But really easier to just Read the Docs and FAQs for Bazzite itself.
And the built in
ujustcommands in the Terminal.It’s Kinoite with extra steps/bells and whistles out of the box.
“…but I don’t want to use bazzite.”
…Curious.
There’s also Project Bluefin and Aurora universal blue community images.
Can also make your own image:
Community images:
Atomic ≠ Immutable
I have run Fedora for over a decade and switched to Bazzite a couple years ago for my desktop (Fedora still on my server).
In short, yes, but I wouldn’t recommend it. You can learn what you need to directly on Bazzite. If you’re looking for help, Bazzite is most similar to Fedora Silverblue (not regular Fedora) under the covers. The differences between regular Fedora and Bazzite are substantial enough that you’ll run into some things you’d need to research twice, once for Fedora then again for Bazzite. Keep it simple and just use Bazzite.
If you want or need a distribution with a different focus, you should look at the other Universal Blue (ublue) options. Bazzite is built on ublue for gamers, but uBlue also builds for other use cases. Aurora for general desktop, Bluefin for workstation, and uCore for servers.
You’re missing the point though, it’s a good OS for her but I actually don’t want bazzite on my personal desktop, I would rather use something that’s not immutable
Oh, then yeah, Fedora is closest. But I’d recommend at least trying an immutable distro --, immutable distributions have been excellent to me (and I dig in my systems a lot), so much so that I’m considering moving my server over, and we already use them on our Linux fleet at work.
