This. I’d say it’s perfect for people who don’t want to tinker at all, and it’s excellent for experts who either know or will enjoy learning how to make its containerization/sandboxing/whatever approaches work out. “Tinkering” is the specific doughnut hole where it is a problem. I replaced it with Tuxedo OS because I was frustrated with trying to set up the toolset for the QMK keyboard firmware, and it turned out there’s a whole layer of things you have to do to make it work, and some of the simpler ones simply break the immutability. A few other tools I wanted to use were running into similar hurdles.

NOw, it’s not that I beleive any of this stuff was a showstopper for everyone; I have too much confidence in the community for that. I am just old and dumb and while I love using Linux, I don’t necessarily want Linux itself to be my hobby. Now all that said, my Minecraft and Starfield installs were working really well on Bazzite, and I haven’t done any gaming in recent weeks so I hope they’ll be as good on Tuxedo.

I just wiped Bazzite in favor of Tuxedo OS. I liked Bazzite a lot until I wanted to do the faintest wisp of development (setting up a new DIY keyboard with QMK). At that point I realized I’m in a very specific doughnut hole where I will occasionally want to do things that are still not mindlessly simple on an immutable distro, but I’m still untutored enough to need the walkthroughs that never include how to properly layer or sandbox stuff without just fucking up the very immutability that made it a good idea in the first place.

Shame though, as it was dead easy to install and use for basic productivity and especially games. A person with different needs and/or more skill would do very well with it. In the meantime, Tuxedo seems like a good snap-free Kubuntu alternative, and I’ve been floating around in KDE-running Debian derivatives (off and on) for decades.

What you get with a lot of cheap gamer brands is a steel plate, tray mount, poor remapping options, and so-so switches.

So still like a million times better than whatever garbage came with your PC. I have an “E-Yooso” I still plug in sometimes. I changed the switches using “narrow 3-pin” outemus, changed the keycaps, and I actually remapped a key or two with Redragon software. It’s… nice. I don’t know what else to say.

That said, Keychron’s dived into the superbudget space with QMK enabled Lemokeys (no hot swap though), and their C and V stuff is also findable as open box in the same price range as these, so you’re probably better off going with them.

Wow, that guy is not fuckin’ around. The ergo community tends to be super minimalist.

As an aside, kbd.news is always a fun site, even if their standards can be very low sometimes. LOLOL.

I very recently made a shift similar to yours, though I don’t play anything MMO. I’ve been playing Minecraft (finally moved to Java) and Starfield, and both work perfectly well on Bazzite Desktop. I keep Windows for my CAD app and some other little garbage apps.

Between Steam and Heroic, most Windows games seem to install fine, though I haven’t dived into many of them really. Because of Valve funding Proton development, gaming has gone from a huge liability for Linux to a significant strength.