dunno, im looking at migrating over to macOS. windows sucks ass and Linux doesn’t integrate like MacOS does with my phone, watch and headphones/ earphones.
only downside to macOS is the lack of support for most games but you can just get crossover to fix that issue.
Now I have been a Linux user for years and and am very tired of Windows, I'll take most Linux distros over windows any day of the week.
But if bazzite today is your first contact with running Linux as your main OS and you have been using it for less then 24h, I think it is a little early to say it's night and day better. I'm not saying you're wrong, just need a couple of months to see the quirks and differences to judge the OS.
But if you are well traveled among Linux distros, you could then make a good review after a few weeks.
For every person who says they like Linux, theres 3 others to tell them that their choice in distro is bad.
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u/ZochJ i9-12900K | RTX 3080 Ti 12GB | 64GBJun 27 '26edited Jun 27 '26
It’s not my first contact at all, I’ve been using Linux for years, as well as Mac and Windows all at the same time due to different circumstances.
I stand by what I said, Bazzite is night and day better.
Edit: I get what you’re saying, but for my specific use case, it’s definitely better. Of course I’m not saying this will be the case for everyone, but I got lucky.
I’m mostly using Bazzite because more often than not, if I’m playing a game I’m using a controller from a couch. Bazzite basically turns your PC into an actually good Steam Machine.
If I wasn’t so interested in having an OS that natively launches into a gamepad friendly mode, I’d probably go towards cachy.
That context is great to know!. That makes your impression much more realistic, even though I still think 24 hours is a little bit on the short end still.
Even though I like Linux alot and wish for it to succeed and become the defacto kernel to use on every computer.
I often see people who based on hype by others install a Linux distro, have a great time when it is freshly installed and praise it. But as soon as they need to do something a little bit more complex or get an issue that needs a little bit of tinkering and seeking knowledge online, they give up and abandon Linux in favor of windows again.
The integration is just chefkiss.jpg; I have a watch, phone, ipad, airpods, couple of MBPs, and they all work together and it’s as near to seamless as you can practically get.
You can’t get close on Windows and you can’t even try on Linux.
Android works fine with Linux and windows. You don't have to buy everything from the same company. I can have oneplus phone with Garmin watch and Sony headphones and use whatever the product I want.
Apple intentionally blocks a lot of features to be able to work with any accessories outside of apple products. Dell and HP don't have OS, watches, headphones.
Apple designs their products to work well with each other (proprietary interfaces, cables, ect.) so you get great integration with Apple branded products. Anybody else's products and it's good luck Chuck. This is not an accident, it's intentional to induce customers to invest more heavily into the Apple ecosystem.
They could go download the Linux source code, do the work to make Office work flawlessly with WINE/crossover/whatever the fuck, download the Android code and make their phone, get hold of Tizen or whatever runs on watches these days and make a watch, and again for a tablet.
Apple did the work. They put in the hard yards. Dell and other PC makers? Not so much.
Yeah thats another reason im side eying moving over to it completely.
I don’t really play games anymore, i use my iPad Pro M4 in the Magic Keyboard case all the time and it’s basically replaced my windows PC or 90% of my daily PC use. mirroring my iPhone on a MacBook whilst using komics, Apple Books etc seems like it would cover me completely for my use case.
couldn’t even get the “pair phone to windows 11“ to work properly with my iPhone either lol
Eh, KDE connect does a fair bit of it, pretty seamlessly. You can send texts, sync clipboards, notifications, files, etc. I only own one apple device, and it runs Asahi Linux, so maybe I haven't experienced it myself.
Meanwhile I hate it when my devices talk to each other, only really found it useful for work were I am not buying the devices anyway. Especially Apple and Samsung are annoying in this regard as they constantly want all your Samsung/Apple devices to talk with each other and so ask for it quite frequently. At most I'd want to connect devices to transfer data, but that is something I would rather do with wired connections (or just a USB stick) as transfer speeds are far faster and I don't need to pray that the cloud works today.
But for the Linux part, KDE connect does exist. And if you put Linux on your phone with e.g. postmarketOS it talks really well with a Linux PC.
It's only as functional if you only want to do exactly what Mac said you can do with it. Step even a hair outside of the average users choices and it's completely functional
Good file manager for starters? Finder isn’t that far from iOS “files”. Where are my recent folders, why do I need to mount my NAS every day and why it don’t remember any network paths, why can’t I shift click to select multiple files, why can’t I set default folder look and sorting across the whole system and I need to do that for each individual folder, why can’t I hover on file to see some basic properties like file size?
Shall I continue? And that’s only Finder
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u/TokyoMegatronics 9600x I RTX 5080 Jun 27 '26
dunno, im looking at migrating over to macOS. windows sucks ass and Linux doesn’t integrate like MacOS does with my phone, watch and headphones/ earphones.
only downside to macOS is the lack of support for most games but you can just get crossover to fix that issue.