As other people noted, Bazzite/Fedora Silverblue can absolutely bite you in the foot if you leave the “normal use cases” — and if you’re not just gaming on the device, you sooner or later will. All of this is solvable and IMO worth it, but probably not great for a beginner trying to become more knowledgeable.

Tldr good for absolute beginners, good for “experts” (in both cases because it very rarely gets in your way/breaks)

Bazzite is a Fedora Atomic based immutable distro focused on gaming, this means…

• out of the box support for Nvidia cards
• ships with a lot of useful gaming utilities
• very hard to break as you should primarily be installing Flatpaks and can do rollbacks

Basically all modern Linux distros have virtualization support, so does Bazzite, of course. Actual performance differences between distros is also negligible, so feel free to choose whatever you like.

https://bazzite.gg/ if you’re interested.

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Homoioteleuta sure are a beautiful thing.

For your personal use, you probably shouldn’t get a “AI” GPU. If you start needing a terrabyte of VRAM and heat, space, and energy start getting real problems, reconsider.

Fedora Silverblue (GNOME), absolute stability with modern software. Distrobox for non-flatpaks or Dev environments. My choice.

Racism is still bad, glad to hear from a judge in these times.

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