[lsbussell]

After about 5 years away from desktop Linux, I have now been using Bluefin/Bazzite for the past few months as a Windows/MacOS replacement on my personal desktop and laptop.

I knew that Bazzite was supposedly good for gaming but never looked into it any more than that. When I eventually learned about Bluefin, I was surprised to find that it, Bazzite, and all the other Universal Blue “distros” are built with the same container-native tech that I use every day at work. Needless to say I was immediately sold.

I have been very impressed so far. I don’t find the immutable OS limiting in my day-to-day work at all. I guess I’m all about that “defaults lifestyle” now.

[andresen]

How do you choose between Bluefin and Bazzite? Can you do any gaming from Bluefin, or is Bazzite a requisite for an easy functional setup for this?

[joseda-hg]

The difference is mostly about default settings

Bluefin even includes stuff like built in propietary controller support and such

If on desktop I'd probably keep to Bluefin (Gnome) or Aurora (KDE) mostly because those have better defaults for it

[vaylian]

> I have been very impressed so far. I don’t find the immutable OS limiting in my day-to-day work at all. I guess I’m all about that “defaults lifestyle” now.

Distrobox and custom podman containers get you a long way on an immutable system. It's actually a huge deal that podman supports rootless containers as a first-class feature.

[nikodunk]

Same here! Been developing embedded, server and frontend stuff all fron Bluefin/Bazzite for 2 years now. Having Homebrew and Tailscale all set up for me is super clean, and the system is just set-and-forget. Gaming works great too.