YouTube is full of Bazzite tutorials. Whatever is out there at documentation is also quite recent. When people ask ChatGPT about how to do something on Ubuntu or Mint, the answers are generated from 15 years old forum posts. Often not only unusable but also damaging. My expectationnis that for immutable distributions LLM answers in 15 years will not break the OS. At worst it’ll recommend some tool deleted from Flathub and it’ll merely not work instead of breaking everything.

IMO using a distribution within Distrobox is an alright choice to keep options open for stuff from outside Flatpak. I keep my SteamOS immutable.

I started suggesting Bazzite to Linux first timers, simply because there is more stuff to find, should people hit trouble. Sure, they might not be that interested in gaming stuff but at least they can enter that name into YouTube and get up tp date video tutorials.

Standard Bluefin is based on Fedora.

I don’t get Universal Blue’s desire to give slightly different flavors and entirely new name. With the non-LTS option, what is the difference between Bazzite Gnome and Bluefin? Preinstalled code editors instead of Steam and Lutris?

LMDE is not based on Sid, it’s based on Debian Stable

Oh wow, you’re right. Did that change at some point and I just didn’t pay attention? My bad!

You sure you had the right ISO?

I had the correct ISO and the experience with the lady’s notebook was as described. Maybe the notebook needed newer kernel code?

It’s unlikely that an already properly installed bootloader just breaks. The base is Sid, Debian Unstable.

Just because breakage doesn’t happen all the time, there is still a higher than average chance. Sid is Debian’s beta test branch, not a rolling release distribution. It just wasn’t the right choice for the lady at the repair cafe.

I was corrected that LMDE is not based on Sid. I redact that part of my comments. The experience I had installing LMDE on a lady’s laptop at a repair cafe was as described, though.

But SteamOS is Arch?

No, it’s an immutable OS based on Arch. Also not rolling release.

So why not suggest CachyOS, which is in a similar space?

You were also suggesting regular Arch and that’s irresponsible.

If all they want a computer for is Steam, they’re going to get a better experience on Wayland.

That’s different than outright suggesting Arch.

I have bazzite on a gaming laptop for games with the kiddo, Zorin on my main laptop and desktop.

Btw, if you want Bazzite but without the gaming stuff for work computers, there are also Aurora and Bluefin. The latter is more conservative, based on CentOS and using Gnome. They are all Universal Blue projects, so you’re not dealing with vastly different systems.

Which is why LMDE exists.

Too bad LMDE is based on Sid. Some stuff can break on occasion.

I few months ago I helped an older lady at a repair café to replace her Win10 with LMDE (because that’s what she wanted). Installed just fine but didn’t boot after reboot. Installed LMDE 2 or 3 additional times, to make sure I didn’t overlook something. Same result.

Then installed Fedora and it just worked.

I’d much sooner suggest Fedora if Wayland is needed.

Bazzite is Fedora Silverblue with a bunch of quality of life additions.

If you want Wayland, go with Arch/Cachy. If you want stability, stick with Mint and X11.

If you want Wayland and stability, use Bazzite.

The more Ubuntu enshittifies, the more work Mint has to do to work against it. That’s why my personal recommendation is against Mint. Ubuntu just isn’t a good foundation to build on, IMO.

Threads doesn’t work with Lemmy/Piefed. Their ActivityPub implementation only targets Mastodon.

Also, instances that defederate from Threads but not Truth Social are a joke.

Does it need to be free software or just work on Linux? In recent years several web-based video editors became popular such as CapCut and Microsoft Clipchamp. They come with the usual disclaimers of being by companies that don’t have your best interest at heart.

Personally, I try to power through Kdenlive and look up tutorials for the little stuff I do.

Edit: https://opencut.app/ but may require running it inside a local Docker container yourself for most stability.

Desktop website: https://www.arenaev.com/bmw_struggles_to_keep_up_as_new_ix3_sells_out_through_2026-news-5560.php

But it will come back at the next big update.

Not if the update is called Bazzite.

Ubuntu is the windows of linux

Way less successful, though.

HACK THE PLANET!

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD was definitively a thing.