Astray
Gold Member
1 petabyte in a month is insane!
(I can confirm that my download was amongst that petabyte lol, we did it reddit).
[Toms Hardware] Bazzite delivers a petabyte of ISOs in one month as users avoid forced updates to Windows 11
1 petabyte in a month is insane!
(I can confirm that my download was amongst that petabyte lol, we did it reddit).
Zathalus
Member
Probably way less. That includes users that are downloading again as well as those that download and don't actually switch. Which happens a lot with Linux.
Hudo
Member
At least they seem to have only counted downloads from the site. At first, I thought they'd counted all downloads, including those via the updating mechanism, in which case 150k would seem like a very low number.
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BeardSpike
Gold Member
How do you like it? I still think dual booting is the best of both worlds but I'm 90% of the time on Linux now.
Mownoc
Member
Seems a pretty huge month for Bazzite, growing well. Going by the Steam Hardware Surveys the number of active bazzite steam users grew by about 38% in the month of November.
We haven't had MAU update for steam in ages, was 132m back in 2021 so probably much higher now, but if we just go with that number there were 170k active Bazzite steam users at the end of October and that grew to around 234k by the end of November.
We haven't had MAU update for steam in ages, was 132m back in 2021 so probably much higher now, but if we just go with that number there were 170k active Bazzite steam users at the end of October and that grew to around 234k by the end of November.
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DenchDeckard
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Anything is progress. There needs to be more options out there for people.
DirtInUrEye
Member
Just sort out Nvidia performance and HDR support (including Special K) and I'll be there. I'm on W10 LTSC for a little while yet, so surely two years is sufficient time to bring these necessary improvements.
Unknown Soldier
Member
This statistic is like 450 million zombies killed in Dead Rising or whatever
pudel
Gold Member
Yeah, its a bit of a "sensational" metric. They could have also just said....we had so and so many downloads, like everyone else does. For example ZorinOS...a distro which is very windows-like themed just recently reported a million downloads. Maybe that was the inspiration here to come up with some even bigger number.
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Astray
Gold Member
Haven't installed it yet, will be repurposing most of an old build I had lying around (5800x, 32GB DDR4) + a new 9070xt + Fractal Ridge case I bought during the BF sales.
Very unlikely I do dual booting though given that I have another windows-only build with a 4090 (that build is getting downsized as well into a Jonsbo D41 Mesh, have some sick plans for that thing). This project is planned to be a Steam machine-like that allows me to play my Steam library in the living room as well.
BeardSpike
Gold Member
D41 Mesh was a case I considered myself but ended up with Lian Li Dan A3 with wood panel.
EDIT: If you will have any problems or questions regarding Linux gaming, feel free to drop in any Linux OT or PM me
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Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
I don't watch porn
It's disgusting
Saiyan-Rox
Member
My lappy has an AMD processor and an Nvidia card (3050 Ti) is bazzite still ropey on the Nvidia GPU?
TheUnicornGuy
Gold Member
That's OK, I'll cover your share.
Define ropey? I have 7800x3d and 4070 super and its been fine. Output is through an OLED so to be completely honest HDR isnt something i feel like im missing out on. All the my games look great. Maybe its just how linux talks to the panel, but the image quality and colour reproduction is top tier.
The only issue ive come across with crahses is a certain level in ready or not. It crashes the game. Whether thats an nvidia issue im not sure
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Why not have sex in real vagina's and boobs?
Ar¢tos
Member
Technically, I would say porn is much less disgusting than having sex yourself, since porn doesn't have smell and all the actors wash themselves (inside and out) before shooting the scenes.
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Poppinfresh
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9800x3d and 5090 here with an OLED, and I have a similar experience, although I'm using Cachy, not Bazzite.
I can get HDR to work, but generally don't bother because I've found the implementation to be wonky on both Windows and Linux, despite calibrating by display, etc. Elden Ring is a great example - HDR is great on PS5, but it looks washed out on the PC under both Windows and Linux.
Other than that, everything else works - DLSS, Ray Tracing, etc... exactly the same as with Windows as far as I can tell.
The only issue I have that I'm still trying to solve is that wake from sleep/hibernate can be wonky. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and I get zero video output until I reboot. Short stints in sleep mode work just fine, but if I suspend the system and walk away for an hour or so, I'm going to have to reboot.
pudel
Gold Member
Hours of configuration? Thats not true. You install linux, yr graphic driver and steam...and thats it in most cases. Dont know what kind of "configuration" takes you hours?
And a "fraction of games" is also quite exaggerating. You have a dozen (but very popular) multiplayer games not running because of their own anti cheat policies, but thats it. If you need these games...you need to stick to windows....thats true.
I am running an Intel/Nvidia combo and all games I played these year were doing fine. But its also a question of what you expect and need. I need minimum 60fps...and everything else on top is just a bonus. Best thing is really to just try it out yrself and decide if you like it or not. Dont know if dual boot is easily possible on yr laptop. Ideally you want to have two different nvme's/ssd's for both OS. Worst case just slap a ssd to yr laptop and install linux on this one.
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Magic Carpet
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Now they need to make a Bazzite store and take over PC gaming completely.
BeardSpike
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Yup, I can config Linux even faster than Windows personally and can type in multiple app names in one line and hit enter and it autodownloads everything on Cachy.
I agree with your take, also GOG and Epic games just work for me.
I even installed some games from installers in Lutris and they also work.
So an argument that only Steam games work doesn't really talk to me.
I won't act like every feature has the same parity like on Windows but most of it works, imho.
So it's not like Linux is as unusable as some forum users claim.
I'm personally dual booting so I'm getting the best of two worlds.
And I will leave it at that. There is a bit but just a bit of learning curve like with everything but to me it was worth it.
And if I didn't try Linux for shit and giggles awhile back I wouldn't have known how much I would like GNOME workflow with all the extensions I use.
Scrolling through workspaces with other apps and games in the background is a superb experience there. So smooth.
FYI some of MP games work, Arc Raiders, Helldivers 2, Warhammer Vermitide 2, Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero.
It depends how invasive is the anticheat.
Vermintide works better than on Windows imho, also game autodownloads shaders from Valve servers so no shader pre-compilation stutter.
If someone wants to use Windows to get Supersampling or Anti-Lag 2 ok but honestly to me stutterless experience is more important.
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IFireflyl
Gold Member
It's difficult to have sex in real life when you're into lollies and you look like this:
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
GrossIt's difficult to have sex in real life when you're into lollies and you look like this:
Wolzard
Member
Something similar happened with Omarchy, a distro geared towards developers. Apparently, Linux has been gaining users on several fronts.
world.hey.com
A petabyte worth of Omarchy in a month
Omarchy didn't even exist before this summer. I did much of the pre-release work during the downtime between sessions at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. And now, just a few months later, we've delivered a petabyte of ISOs in the past thirty days alone. That's about 150,000 installs of the...
Guilty_AI
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Hypereides
Member
Good. I hope Linux distros continue to gain traction.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Any mass movement away from the plague of modern Windows is a good thing. F that OS and F Microsoft's greed degrading and holding back the PC user experience.
Also since they're a major client of OpenAI and probably incentivized that company's destructive RAM deals with Samsung & SK Hynix, F 'em for that too.
Also since they're a major client of OpenAI and probably incentivized that company's destructive RAM deals with Samsung & SK Hynix, F 'em for that too.
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Wolzard
Member
Activate Nvidia services:
Bash:
systemctl enable nvidia-suspend.service
systemctl enable nvidia-hibernate.service
systemctl enable nvidia-resume.serviceAnd edit the file: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-graphics-drivers-kms.conf:
Bash:
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=0
options nvidia NVreg_TemporaryFilePath=/var/tmpTheUnicornGuy
Gold Member
Why not both?
Witchilich
Member
In one distro.
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
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pudel
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pudel
Gold Member
Just listening to this podcast here and i think these guys talking about the exact same problem you have here....might be helpful (its time stamped):
Crayon
Member
I just pulled two variants of the iso this weekend for what was going to be in install. Wanted to have the desktop iso handy in case the deck one didn't work well.
Crayon
Member
THIS. More people should know this. That, and if you have AMD, you can use game scope and that will get rid of tiny micro stutters. Unless it works on Nvidia now? Last I checked you had to have AMD for that at the moment.