I’m currently on PopOS 22 and I’m in the mood to try something different. I mostly game but I do need my system to have support for the everyday tasks I sometimes need to do, so I fell bazzite is a no go.
I see a lot of people recommending Cachy, will it be a smooth experience for someone used to linux? Is Endeavour a better choice? Will I have issued with my PS3 eye camera and x52 stick?
I wouldn’t recommend either, personally. Bazzite, however, is a top recommendation. What makes you think it’s not suitable for “everyday tasks”?
I have the same question. I game, write code, browse the internet and all sorts on Bazzite. (I actually moved from Pop to Bazzite because I couldn’t get my storage hdd to mount and stay that way on Pop (I am a Linux n00b, in case that wasn’t obvious. ))
Not too many people talk about this for some reason but Bazzite includes a bunch of stuff that just makes using Linux so much easier. They include a bunch of handy Gnome extensions out of the box. Fractional scaling is pre-configured and automatically applied. Bazaar is installed OOTB, which is so so so much better than Gnome software. Updates are handled in the background automatically. And most of all is the ujust commands, where they basically simplify many processes by breaking them down to a single command, like installing Waydroid or Resolve or Decky.
Well I was using bazzite with KDE before due to those issues with GNOME but reading all that makes me wanna check out bazzite with GNOME
https://distrosea.com/select/bazzite/
Agreed. I used and really enjoyed Endeavour back when I was happy spending time tinkering with my system, but these days I just want to either get on with work or game, and Bazzite/Bluefin/Aurora are ideal for this.
I was under the impression that their aggressive pruning of things usually used for workstation tasks would hamper a sane use of it. From what I’ve gathered they even removed the usual python bins that come with most linux distros these days, as an example.
Universal Blue does things differently from traditional distros and their philosophy is very cloud/container based.
They specifically have the Bluefin variant for workstation and software development use:
https://projectbluefin.io/
I don’t know what any of that means but I haven’t encountered anything that prevents me from using it on my workstation. Sounds like you may have a more advanced usecase.