I’m not sure if that reasoning is true, though. The popularity over time of both Bazzite and Nobara can be viewed through many different ways, but the data seems to suggest that Bazzite overtaking Nobara in popularity happened long after both had received their respective Steam Deck images. Heck, even Bazzite’s own metrics seem to suggest that the hype is a very recent one. This is also reflected on social media platforms like Youtube:

• Bazzite’s most viewed videos were all created within the last year or so
• While Nobara’s most viewed videos were all created over two years ago

As for how or why Bazzite succeeded in overtaking Nobara? I actually don’t know. Perhaps it’s simply because it happens to be closer to SteamOS^[1] in design philosophy. Or, maybe its atomic/‘cloud-native’ (or whatever) nature makes it (somehow) more attractive to install for the crowd that (at least traditionally) never got into Linux.

FWIW -perhaps we may find the crux of the matter in here- if I had to pick a distro to use on my personal gaming rig, then I’d probs go for CachyOS^[2] for its (ever-so-slightly) superior performance. But…, if I were to install a distro on the gaming rig of a new-Linux user, then I’d undoubtedly go for Bazzite instead.

It’s broken on selinux systems though

FWIW, it actually does work on secureblue; a Fedora Atomic derivative that ships with SELinux enforced.

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It seems we don’t have many AerynOS users on Lemmy. But based on the user reports found on “the platform that shall not be named”, peeps seem to be enjoying it so far. May I suggest that you take it on a test drive yourself and make a post on Lemmy with your findings 😜?

Thankfully, history informs us that whenever Ikey leaves a project he kickstarted, that the project’s remaining maintainers have shown to be competent and able to continue the effort, even in his absence. Look at both Budgie DE and Solus for reference*. So, I’m rather hopeful about AerynOS’ future. Especially as its rather ambitious goals also happen to align with the desires of many that are to an extent interested in what so-called ‘immutable’ distros are able to achieve but are not yet happy or content with the direction or design of the current offerings.

(Just ensuring OP is notified: @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz)

Since the very recent 0.9.0 update of WinBoat, UWP app support has been added. So, that’s perhaps worth exploring.

I like secureblue the most, because it’s simply the best in class when it comes to bridging the difference between Desktop Linux and GrapheneOS in terms of security. As being secure is at the very top of my priority list, my preference for secureblue -therefore- follows rather naturally.