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[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are you fucking kidding? I just switched to bazzite from Mint after dropping windows.

[–] Jontique@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don’t worry. It's only a suggestion for Fedora 44, so high chance it won't happen. ( F44 will come out early 2026)

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

I hope it doesn't. I'm loving bazzite

[–] unskilled5117@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Even if this were to happen, you could easily rebase to Aurora (KDE version of Bluefin) or Fedora Kinoite. You wouldn’t be totally screwed.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Isn't Aurora still Fedora? Then it probably wouldn't solve the issue with gaming on Fedora being made so difficult to set up, that it forced one of the more popular distros to shut down.

Bazzite is a gaming focused distro, so I wager that that would be a major problem for a lot of people.

The only choice for a lot of gamers (including me) will simply be to not use Fedora, and find a new distro to switch to, which is a shame. (Although, it will probably just be SteamOS at that point). I'm also worried about my Lenovo Legion Go. It's unusable with Windows, and Bazzite being atomic is a really really good fit for it, and they have builds specially tailored for Legion.

But we still have two years to go, so we'll see. I don't think Fedora has the power and market share to force others to follow with depreciation of 32b, and unless other distros join in, it will just be a PR disaster and people will just begrudgingly move to other distros.

[–] unskilled5117@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago

Yep, the problems that require more than the steam flatpak can deliver would of course still be there. But you wouldn’t suddenly be on a depreciated distro without a path forward. Thats what I meant by not totally screwed.

[–] zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I know I could switch to another, I'm just really liking Bazzite

[–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

All the issues bazzite has with the Steam flatpak are solved by this AppImage