I recently got a new i3 Intel Core Beelink device, and using it with #bazzite has been a great experience. I’ve set it up as a storage server and might use it for retro gaming if I feel like it. However, I doubt I’ll use it much for gaming since my ROG Ally with bazzite is already a great all-in-one device that handles a wide range of games.

With the 24TB external hard drive and now the 2TB one, I’m planning to reorganize the media content on my desktop and get everything properly structured. It’s honestly hard to do that sometimes given the duplication, and there’s nothing good out there for deduplication…

Running Fedora atomic with Budgie

My experience with the i3 Beelink device has been fantastic. It originally came with an older version of Windows 10, but I replaced that with Bazzite. At first, I installed Fedora with Budgie, only to realize Budgie was still relying on X11, which I prefer to avoid. I believe the X11 era is over, and it’s time for everyone and everything to transition to Wayland.

Installing bazzite on Beelink

Overall, I’m beyond ecstatic about how things have turned out for the better for my desktop. I never used my desktop a lot, and it is a very beefy machine to say the least. I think people don’t give Bazzite a lot of credit. I know it sounds completely off-topic, but I do think that, from the eyes of a power user, Bazzite offers so much out of the box that people aren’t quite utilizing all the things it offers. Homebrew and Distrobox are possibly two of the most important toolboxes on this atomic journey of immutable distributions.

I realize I went off topic. I know that eventually I will do a write-up on how I feel about Bazzite and how it compares to Steam OS. But beyond that, we shouldn’t diminish the efforts of Valve and Bazzite’s teams. They have done a great job; it is just that Bazzite sometimes has a weird way of promoting itself while punching down on other distributions, including Steam OS. Not by the original team members, but by other people on Reddit trying to offer Bazzite as an alternative.

Overall, it’s been an amazing experience and I wish everyone gave Bazzite a try before slapping on Steam OS.