By “core apps”, you mean literally only two applications.

The terminal is replaced with one that has a container workflow because that is the recommended and expected workflow for anyone working in a terminal.

The store is replaced with Bazaar because it is the only one that is even trying to provide a good flathub experience.

That’s it. Everything else is stock KDE.

Founder here, we have a sponsorship deal with Cloudflare that thankfully covers the vast majority of this. Our hosting costs right now for everything, including the GitHub runners, are $65, with the domain being another $100/yr.

The intention with the donations is to pay for those costs, travel for Linux conventions, and for us to have a fund for additional higher cost items like eventually doing proper secure boot support. At no point will myself or others be collecting a paycheck out of those funds, and I’ve been paying our bills for the last 3 years or so. I’m privileged to be able to do this as a hobby and not as a job.

Thank you for thinking about us! I appreciate the sentiment

They’re so easy to install that you don’t have to, it’s built in

My point is you’re not missing a damn thing.

See the problem is that you’re a normal computer user and not one of the 3% that actually like the experience that is the traditional Linux desktop.

If you have no interest in gaming and want a modern development environment there’s Aurora/Bluefin. Bazzite is just those with gaming bits added on.

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Sorry we’re not this fast, it’ll land when Fedora 43 hits stable.

No, it comes with the rpm. We do not use the flatpak.

We already do this, no benefit to Bazzite but glad to see Fedora adopting it.

SteamOS also ships distrobox OOTB now, so you can use this anywhere.

The issue with them right now is there’s no update mechanism. If you use something as a system extension that depends on a library in the image, and that library gets updated, you could have an unbootable system or at the very least a non-functioning application until you can update your system extension manually.

Ideally that update mechanism needs to be a part of bootc so if your system extension is part of your boot process it can be updated ahead of time before the image is loaded.

We’ve looked at it since it’s inception and it’s something we really want, it’s just nowhere near ready yet.

I also said ublue is free to do what they want

Thank the lord we have your permission

They should be scared, we’re here to replace their 30-year failed experiment with tech that’s already successful everywhere Linux makes money.

No they have CUDA. The open driver from Nvidia just means the kernel module has an open source license. They are still the same proprietary pieces of shit that you know and love from a user space perspective.

I disagree with you fundamentally, if it wasn’t for the simple updates and stability this would not have the success that it does. The image is part of the model.

It offers a straightforward onboarding process because it’s image based. The model is part of the success.

Only on Aurora, we don’t ship that.

You don’t use the terminal to do updates, updates are automatic by default.

We also completely removed discovers ability to update OSTree. It’s never been present in a single build of Bazzite.

This is why I don’t pay attention to people that complain about toolkits. You don’t like the way it looks so you make up absolutely disingenuous points to argue about it.

Yes, we are. It’s exactly why it shouldn’t be done and why Fedora is the only project wasting their time with this.