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Distro Recommendations
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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Not sure why you got downvoted. Bazzite is great.
Plot twist: it was I, OP, all along! Let me explain why.
Whenever I see these distro recommendation threads, all kinds of people come out to make a comment. Many if not most are well-intentioned, but the kind of person that bothers me the most is the evangelist. The kind of person who's blind to the limitations and drawbacks of the thing they are espousing.
If you're gonna recommend a distro, I sure hope you'd have some personal experience with it. Otherwise, how do you know what it's limitations are? So to admit you've never used Bazzite even though you're recommending it, it just seems irresponsible. "You have a peanut allergy? Try this Pad Thai restaurant! I've never been there but I hear it's great!"
After discussing with a few more developer friends of mine, they advised me not to use an atomic/immutable distro, because setting it up for development is a chore. I'd apparently have to learn how to use distrobox, set up containers, and learn an entire other flavor of linux to set up a development environment. As a reminder, I did say in the OP that I needed something I could program on as well, and Bazzite sounds like a poor fit for that use case.
I can understand and respect your points here.
To be totally fair, Bazzite can be used to do anything any other Linux distro can do, it's the beauty of Linux. I've set mine to run .NET, PHP, and node. Had to use containers for SQL server, but got that going too.
Yes, it's a bit of a pain, but it's been my favorite Linux experience so far.
Maybe some haters of atomic distros. Never imagined people hating them more than me. But what if not this...
I suspect it's the recommendation from someone who hasn't used the product.
Bazzite is my first one. Was a kubuntu user before it, and sabayon way back in the day.
What is there to hate? I understand if you don't prefer how it works, or if you're used to doing things a certain way which doesn't work on atomic... But hate seems a little extreme
Atomic distros are not my cup of tea. They are perfect for certain cases, but, you know, I kind of feel irritated by how often I see people overpraising them. It's like, this is just an option, that is useful in some cases, and useless in other. Why am I sometimes seeing people making a holy grail out of atomics?