How is Bazzite as far as desktops/laptops go?

I’ve just switched over to linux last week from Windows and i’m hooked. But now I find i’m just looking at all the various distros trying to figure out which one would be best for me. Right now I’m on Mint/cinnamon and it’s great. but I’ve had my eye on CachyOS, Nobara, and Bazzite.

I wanted to try out Bazzite via live usb but it doesn’t have that option. So I’m just curious what people who use it think of it.

Edit: decided to go with CachyOS. bit harder to set up and get going then Mint but I managed to pull it off and actually prefer it. super fast too.

this doesn’t make a lick of sense. I know 16 year olds who WANT to work and can’t even find jobs because of the foreign temp workers/international students. Saskatchewan wants to allow 13 year olds? why? there’s literally no point. A business that is already more than willing to take advantage of a potential employee is still going to favor some “student” from India over a 13 year old Canadian kid. you can take more advantage of the Indian kid as opposed to the 13 year old Kid.

This is one massive nothing burger.

honestly I’d move to Montreal but my french is absolutely dreadful and just never “stuck” from school. If I need to know your name, your age, how you’re doing and who cut the cheese(farted)? sure I’m all over that. everything else? not so much.

it’s because they’re afraid to rattle those cages. Same reason why it’s always “companies want workers to return to the office, here’s why” and never “Here’s WHY employees don’t want to return to the office”. They don’t want to piss off the powers that be for fear of hurting their already very fragile media business.

“oh you’re knocking our company for stagnate wages? for forcing people to come back to the office? ok well we’re going to directly hurt your ad revenue by pulling our ads from your paper/site”

best thing EA can do is just drop the rights to it back to American McGee and let him fumble his way to a third game. His die hard fans, of which there are many, will love it but I imagine it would get critically panned just like all his other games with the exception of the first Alice.

Many former id guys when they go out on their own don’t have the best track record.

knew a guy that did this. keep your head down, blend in, don’t be loud, everything plugged into headphones, no parties, nothing just go, chill out, sleep. he did it for over a year and never got caught.

know someone who did this recently. lived in their “office” that they rented for like $300 a month for just over a year while they got back on their feet. It was easy. it was a pretty small building with a few offices in it, no onsite security, cleaners only cleaned the hallways and common area and only did it during the day. it was a building full of “start ups” so it wasn’t uncommon for people to be there late or even overnight so he just blended in and could come and go as he pleased. only issue naturally was showering but there was a goodlife across the street so he just got a membership to shower there.

I mean if you can find a similar space then I say why not? go for it. He said it was easier to rent that office space than it was to rent an apartment. didn’t need references, no credit check, no competition so you’re not gonna get out bid, literally just said that he’ll take it, paid $600, signed a lease, and that was it. moved in the same day.

my ex-girlfriend loved the first game, she even got a massive tattoo of the cat on her back. The second game? it was horrible. It took everything that was great about the first game and just said “fuck it” and toss it out the window. graphically it was nice but it just lacked that insanity of the first game, the story was weak and just didn’t draw you in like the first did.

And make no mistake McGee, on his own, is a one trick pony. He got fired from Id for bad level designs (which, depending on who you ask is controversial) he knocked it out of the park with Alice, but fumbled with Madness Returns and…ugh…Bad Day LA which NO ONE remembers.

So I mean kudos to fans that like this game but only if McGee stays far away from a potential third game in the series I wouldn’t hold out much hope.

but then you have the hurdle of actually being able to join a credit union. I remember a couple years ago I was trying to help one of my clients get a credit union account (who was homeless but working) and he couldn’t get it. don’t remember the specific reason but I do know we went across the street and was able to open a scotiabank account.

It was Merdian bank so don’t know how good they are. I figuerd the credit union would be easier to work with in his case since like you said there’s no minimum fees, I was wrong.

also need to keep cash around for poor people. when I was homeless 10 years ago if cash wasn’t a thing I would have been well and truly fucked.

You also need to further lower the barrier of entry for simply getting a bank account. Make it so, once again in Ontario at least, your OHIP card is a valid id to open an account. Because if you go cashless and you don’t have a bank account you’ll never get one. costs money to get a valid form of ID here to open one. Hell I know people who don’t even have bank accounts because they can’t afford it. They can’t afford the monthly fee. they either get paid in cash or have somenoe cash their paycheques for them.

I mean it’s already practically there. I made the switch from Windows to Linux this past week. I’ve been able to get World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, and Elden Ring all working on it. and the “hardest” one to get going/install was WoW only because I needed to install one script to get working. FFXIV and Elden Ring worked right out of the box on steam.

I only just switched to Linux this past week and I use Mint. It was suggested to me by someone here on lemmy. It was easy to set up, customize, and get all my stuff working on it. I have World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Elden Ring and a few other games all working on it. The only issue, and right now it’s a minor one, I’m having is the 535 nividia drivers can cause random stutters/lag every now and then but nothing major.

My point is for people like me who are new to linux and don’t want to get overwhelmed I think Mint is great. I know eventually i’ll change to a different more “advanced” distro, right now I have my eye on CachyOS, but I don’t think I’m there quite yet to confidently install it.

My sister is an elementary school principal and she is absolutely infuriating. she’s smart don’t get me wrong, book smarts that is. Went to university twice, got her masters, she skipped 8th grade when she was a kid.

However when it comes to common sense/street smarts…oh boy. dumb as a pile of rocks. Took her god knows how many times to pass her driving exam. Written test? no problem, aced it the first try. the actual DRIVING portion? failed it god knows how many times to the point the instructor just couldn’t comprehend how someone who knew all the rules, everything, on the written test couldn’t transfer that to actually using it. Common sesne is a foreign concept to her. Like the most basic things that you and I do in everyday life boggle her mind.

To top it all off, she hates kids. I shit you not she’s been a teacher/principal for nearly two decades and cannot stand kids. Her husband wanted children but she said no, she doesn’t want kids - to quote her “I really can’t stand children”. It’s like saying I can’t stand pizza, it makes me sick, so I’m gonna go work at Pizza Pizza and make a god damn career out of it.

My point is the principal in this case is a douche and administration is no better so reading stories like this doesn’t surprise me at all. They really pick from the bottom of the barrel to fill those roles.

Needless to say my sister and I do not get along.

don’t know what you posted but if it’s anything like our mental health care I’m gonna say “not great.”

wake me up when there’s an article titled: “why so many Canadians have fled to other parts of The World” so remind me in like a year or less.

which is crazy when you compare the cost of Rent in Quebec to other cities in the country, they’re one of the cheapest. we’re fucked.

it was the nvidia 535 driver. I switched to nouveau and that solved the stuttering/lag. but made gaming suck. so then I tried installing 550 drivers and that just outright bricked my system, recovered and went back to the 535. works for gaming so I’ll just tolerate the stuttering I guess.

So either use Nvidia’s driver and deal with the stuttering or don’t and can’t game. great.

and since I do game I take it that it’s not advised?

yup after posting I did a bit of reading. It was the nvidia driver. switched to the nouveau driver and problem solved. sorry still new to all this.