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While shopping around for a distro for my gaming box, I tried NixOS and Bazzite. Both were fine, but the atomicity made everything more complicated without any practical upsides for my use case.
So I'm just using Nobara, which is a gaming-optimized Fedora. For my laptop, I'm just using Arch, it's much less hassle. The declarativeness of centralization of NixOS is alluring, but I don't really need it.
I will say that Bazzite and the rest of the Universal Blue distros are going to be moving to
bootc
eventually, which should hopefully make things much easier for end-users to customize. Layering withrpm-ostree
is fine for a lot of people, but only if your software can be found via the Fedora free and non-free repos or comes as an RPM.It's great for most, and they have a lot of additional
ujust
commands to make other changes, but doing things like ricing or installing a proprietary binary can be tricky or impossible.Yeah, that's something I faced the wall with too. Hopefully we'll see bootc soon!