Sponsors?, support (paid programmers, servers, ...)?, Bazzite a good choice in the long run on PC?
Hello,
How is the whole project/ server etc. actually paid for? paid? Unfortunately, I can't find any information on this anywhere. The programmers do it for free/ voluntarily I think as I understand it.
I would like to know if Bazzite OS is a good choice or not. (In the long run)
Please ping me for an answer
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Most of the developers of Bazzite do the development in their free time. Some of the devs do get some support through GitHub sponsorships see this section in the docs https://docs.bazzite.gg/donations/ if you are keen on supporting the project in any way.
Is Bazzite a good choice or not? You going to get very biased answers for that on a Bazzite discord. I've been using it for gaming and for general computing for over a year and it's been great.
it's mostly IBM/redhat (fedoras corporate backer, which is upstream of ublue so technically all their work is used by ublue too) and community (both fedora and ublue)
also rpmfusion which is afaik community and terra which is fyralabs which is a foss startup
that's however the packages
actual development for ublue is done by volunteers and mostly consists of system configuration and images, not from packages / first party utilities
not to downplay ublue but well
compared to the rest of the work done by fedora and other up streams
ublue does way less things
it's as usable / as good of a choice as most distros which downstream from fedora
what else can i say
dont forget github, all those compute and storage aint cheap 😂
okay true, i sometimes forget that it's a privilege to have a free cicd and src storage boxes
like even 8 years ago ci wasn't really a thing that was available for free and githubs free tier was so much worse
services like that keep evolving in a good way mostly
also not really completely related but it was so much more different (jenkins)
do i understand correctly that IBM/redhat (fedora) provides the server, which provides the updates to bazzite and packages it up?
are there also costs at github? if so, who pays them and how high are they?
the question if bazzite is good or not i rather meant if most pc people stay on bazzite or switch to other distros (in the pc/ desktop area), if the infrastructure is designed for the long term (and is paid / provided (presumably, nobody can look into the future))
i need an operating system that is simple and has relatively up-to-date drivers. also, that there is a team behind it and not just one person and that it works. i want to be able to use the pc for gaming, cad, office, 3d printing, surfing, writing emails (tuta), video streaming (obs studio), video editing, image editing, i think that's all.
software that is compatible with linux, i have already switched. hardware as well (recently my roland bridge cast one was made compatible without changing anything in the system (i added the device to the alsa ucm conf))
do i understand correctly that IBM/redhat (fedora) provides the server, which provides the updates to bazzite and packages it up?no, fedora which is financially backed by redhat which is owned by ibm provides most of the software packages, including core tooling (rpm-ostree, for example). most of the software is written by various foss developers around the world, which is then packaged by redhat/ibm/fedora.
are there also costs at github? if so, who pays them and how high are they?no idea if ublue is sponsored by github or if it exceeds the free 2000 minutes of CI/CD runtime or anything of those sorts, you need to ask a core member however they're unlikely to be willing to share the answer.
the question if bazzite is good or not i rather meant if most pc people stay on bazzite or switch to other distros (in the pc/ desktop area)idk, im personally staying on it and a decent bit of people are. everyone is free to choose their own thing.
if the infrastructure is designed for the long term (and is paid / provided (presumably, nobody can look into the future))unless github stops providing their CI/CD services named actions and packages, there should be nothing that can break universal blue's systems. things that are likely to be paid for out of pocket are: the extra ci/cd time, potentially some full time developers altho as far as im aware ublue doesnt have any atm, and domains. infrastructure wise bazzite doesnt rely on selfhosting services and instead relies on github primarily.
i need an operating system that is simple and has relatively up-to-date drivers.bazzite has a fresh mesa and a fresh kernel, so that should be good for u
also, that there is a team behind it and not just one person and that it works.there are multiple contributors to this project, anyone can contribute if they're willing to. there is not a team (well, kinda, not a paid one anyway) nor a single person, its anyone who wants to provide code or assets or anything.
i want to be able to use the pc for gaming, cad, office, 3d printing, surfing, writing emails (tuta), video streaming (obs studio), video editing, image editing,cad and video editing might be hard on linux due to lack of proprietary software, however im not really into cad. for video editing there's davinci resolve but no native premiere/vegas/ae
for video editing I use kdenlive, which was actually developed for linux and then also for windows as far as I know.
for cad there is FreeCAD (1.0) which is much better than v0.x.
i do quite a lot of different things on my current main pc (currently still windows). but i think i have found the right distro after 4 years 😅 (my pc only needs a graphics card upgrade because i don't want to switch from nvidia to amd on linux)
I am currently testing bazzite on my notebook
aighty, you should be mostly fine then if you're already using free software, not much things to switch up i guess
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