This is kinda why Bazzite is the only distro I can recomment to my gaming friends. The default settings work well, and its very hard to break it because its pretty locked down and it pushes users to use flatpaks via the app store, which generally work great. It also does its own updates in the background (with a backup just in case!) so nobody ever really has to worry about it, and I really appreciate it for that.
That’s a good data point I’ll keep in mind. Unfortunately cachy does not do nearly as much for the user out of the box so I can’t really recommend it to those friends, but it’s a great distro.
The whole point of inmutabiltiy is that, even if the system breaks itself on update, you just rollback to a working image. I’ve had issues with bazzite, but never once have I lost a system with it.
The biggest issue I’ve seen is knowing how to properly permission flatpaks, sometimes it doesn’t include default values that actually work and flatseal helps but I’m a techy guy and even I was bewildered looking at all the options the first several times.
This is kinda why Bazzite is the only distro I can recomment to my gaming friends. The default settings work well, and its very hard to break it because its pretty locked down and it pushes users to use flatpaks via the app store, which generally work great. It also does its own updates in the background (with a backup just in case!) so nobody ever really has to worry about it, and I really appreciate it for that.
Installed Bazzite once. Lasted about two weeks, before this hard-to-break-distro broke on it’s own.
Never did anything to it, it just started acting up.
Switched to CachyOS and it just works.
That’s a good data point I’ll keep in mind. Unfortunately cachy does not do nearly as much for the user out of the box so I can’t really recommend it to those friends, but it’s a great distro.
An old PC. Some ASUS motherboard from before 2010, Intel CPU and an Nvidia GTX 1650
The whole point of inmutabiltiy is that, even if the system breaks itself on update, you just rollback to a working image. I’ve had issues with bazzite, but never once have I lost a system with it.
I guess the point is that automatic updates ruin stuff way more unexpectedly, than knowing that it broke because I pressed the update button.
Before knowing it was the update I tried fixing it unsuccessfully and I could’ve saved some time and nerves.
The biggest issue I’ve seen is knowing how to properly permission flatpaks, sometimes it doesn’t include default values that actually work and flatseal helps but I’m a techy guy and even I was bewildered looking at all the options the first several times.