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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • For $600, I bought a GMKTEC K12, Ryzen 7 H255 32GB DDR5 and 512 GB M2 SSD. Flashed Bazzite before first boot.

    I’ll wait for the Steam Machine very patiently while I play games with my kids in the living room TV.

    This thing performs incredibly well, much more than my kids would need. Their friends with PS5 consoles are impressed by the quality and the amount of games we have. Steam is unbeatable. When the Steam Machine releases, my K12 will be my homelab replacement.

    Project Helix is doomed.





  • Because of everything.

    I can chose however I want it to be and behave. It won’t nag me, it won’t show me ads, my hardware will receive support for ages, it consumes less resources, it’s more responsive, I don’t need to update any drivers, it uses less disk space, installing apps is easier, changing settings is easier, backups are easier, zero maintenance , it’s reliable, it’s free and open source and it uses the same Kernel that the world runs and relies on.

    I use Bazzite, and it’s honestly the best computing experience I’ve ever had. I’m 40, since I was less than 8 years old until now I’ve used:

    • DOS
    • Windows 3.11, 95, Me, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
    • MacOS 8.1, 9, OSX 10 - 10.11

    Linux:

    • Mandrake
    • Mandriva
    • Ubuntu
    • POP OS
    • Elementary
    • Manjaro
    • Endeavour
    • Debían
    • Zorin
    • Mint
    • Fedora
    • Aurora
    • Bazzite
    • Vanilla

    That said the only thing I dislike is that my kids can’t play EA’s FC26 or Epic’s Fortnite because those companies chose to actively not support Linux on purpose. Those games are predatory gambling casinos disguised as games, but still… I wish I could have the choice to play or not play them.

    But that’s a small price to pay for everything I get in return.

    I’ve been running Bazzite for 2 years now. I’m very happy with it and I feel joy using it every single day, I’m in love.