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Eric Adams 20%
Andrew Cuomo 15%

Congress 23%

@smugumin @DarkMahesvara BTW, if you guys want something "SteamOS-like", I have been having a good time running Bazzite in my machine.

bazzite.gg/

It is based on Fedora Atomic and the idea is for it to be a "SteamOS-like", but made for use in desktops.

Biggest advantages of it are:
- it comes basically ready to go, chances are it will be fully compatible with all your hardware (even Nvidia cards, which are usually more annoying to make work well in Linux)
- it's pretty hard to break, since it's an "atomic distro" (it either updates fully or it doesn't update, you never get stuck in a situation where some packages get updated while the others aren't and then stuff breaks like it may happen)
- it comes with a lot of stuff already prepared for games. Steam with Proton and all that jazz, tools for configuring Proton, tools for installing games from places that aren't Steam, etc

The main disadvantage, especially for Linux purists, is that due to the fact it is an "immutable distro", you can't willy nilly install any program you want through the package manager, change the desktop environment, etc. You are limited to install programs through Flatpak, which is a kind of containerized app that goes "over" the system. In practical terms for the layman user, it works like installing a Windows app.
But it's different enough from regular Linux that power users dislike it. Also, as mentioned, you are limited on installing certain stuff that goes down to "system level", like changing desktop environments and such.

But, honestly? I am a "Linux power user", and I have been using Bazzite for over a year now, with no problems. I can both play my games and do my job in it just fine, and stuff just works without having to tinker with it.
I have done some "distro hopping" in this meantime to test some stuff, but ended up going back to it, because, again, it just works.

There are, of course, some things I may want to do as a power user that I can't easily do here, like using Hyprland as my desktop, or installing widgets like eww.
And that's why I'm trying to create a NixOS install in a VM before transfering it to my PC, in the hopes that after having NixOS fully set up I'll never have to worry again. But it's being so annoying to fix the myriad of issues that arise that I'm seriously considering just giving up and staying happy in Bazzite.

Bazzite - The next generation of Linux gaming

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

^bazzite.gg

@smugumin @DarkMahesvara Mint is pretty good for newbies.

SteamOS is kinda directed for games, and I don't think it's a proper distro to run as a daily driver.

troon* lunduke made a video about it. afaik its not really effecting the OS itself. it is fedora based after all so it comes with the territory sadly.

lunduke.substack.com/p/gaming-…

Gaming Linux Distro Targets Children with Trans Cartoons

Bazzite -- a Fedora Linux based OS focused on gaming -- created a "Transgendered Bi-Sexual" cartoon mascot cartoon targeted at children.

^{Bryan Lunduke (The Lunduke Journal of Technology)}

@DarkMahesvara @smugumin Faggot mascot?

I know u-blue (the project that turns Fedora Atomic into other distros) has a rainbow flag in the logo, but I haven't seen any "faggot mascot" for Bazzite.

@DarkMahesvara @smugumin meh, Lunduke is a sperg most of the time.
I have never seen anything like that.

OK, I just saw @TopBep reply.
Meh. They don't shove the tranny mascot or their stupid variant logos in the system, so whatever. In their own website you need to scroll almost all the way down to see said tranny mascot, and there is no stupid flag with her.

Unfortunately we live in <current world> during <current year>, so it's almost impossible to have any project that is not pozzed with trannies.
Heck, NixOS had a huge drama last year with a "transphobic" dev being ousted and then they created a fucking marxist CoC and a "community council" and they spent most of the time discussing how many minority chairs said council should have. If you don't want trannies in your code you have to steer clear from open source projects, unfortunately.

Thankfully it seems support for this bullshit is slowly but surely dying off, and part of the proof is that I had no idea said tranny mascot even existed, because it hasn't been pushed onto me even in official Bazzite channels.