Wonderful response, and I agree completely. It echoes the thoughts I’ve tried to convey to friends in their 20s, but much more eloquently than I have managed.

I can confirm that Bazzite works flawlessly on a Razer Blade 14 without any additional configuration. Just installed from ISO and it was perfect.

The draw is that you cannot screw them up. Non-power users are the ones who will get the most out of them!

I know that I’ll never get a call from my friend saying, “I ran this command I found on an Ubuntu forum, and now my system won’t boot…”

As a counterpoint, I installed Bazzite on a Blade 14 for a heavy gaming friend who was leaving Windows, and they have had no issues whatsoever.

I personally use Bluefun, and again, no issues at all. Incredibly good experiences on both.

I can’t imagine what you mean by needing more work to configure, they both worked out of the box with no configuration.

4-J-yo

Here is clockwise. One arrow is going to the right and one to the left.

Is this related?

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/autumn-update-secure-boot-users-make-sure-youve-enrolled-our-secure-boot-key/3959

It’ll be easier to run the LLM in Podman on Bazzite.

I do it that way for my kid as she prefers it, and the “normal” way for me, and it is identically easy.

I cannot understand the claim that it’s easier the seed end, it’s just not true.

It’s definitely cleaner doing it the normal way from the bunch end as you never get bits of banana on you if it’s a particularly squishy one.

Bunch end wins for me. Just as easy if not easier and no mess.

I’m not sure how it works with PIA, but on Proton I can export multiple configs, let’s say 6 different ones with a combination of countries and other options.

Then I add them all into KDE and I can switch between them at will.

It’s a slight extra cost of time at the start, but after that it’s smooth and easy.

Private Internet Access

Can’t you simply get the OpenVPN or Wireguard details from in PIA, and then put them into Gnome/KDE’s built-in VPN app?

Like this: https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/kb/articles/where-can-i-find-your-ovpn-files

Will be something similar for Wireguard.

Bazzite. Idiot proof Nvidia gaming. I’ve installed it for a few Windows-using friends and they’ve had no complaints.

https://bazzite.gg/

While you are correct, Bazzite is a drop-in OS replacement for Steamdeck and Asus ROG Ally, so there’s a lot of potential for more people hearing about it as it gets more popular.

There isn’t a pro-grade, open source video editing tool or anything close

Do you use open source professional grade video editing tools on Windows? Almost certainly not, so why would it be a requirement for Linux?

What we need is companies producing Linux builds of professional grade closed source software. And if the trend of Microsoft making terrible decisions and Linux use increasing, it might actually happen.

One salty downvote from @rekabis@lemmy.ca :P

I’m running ProtonVPN on Bluefin from a flatpak with zero issues.