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Hear me out, the mascot is a freaking chameleon, that's cool as shit man.

Also it's a German engineered distro, German engineering wins again!

Zypper is just a funnier name for a package manager and it has Tumbleweed which is arch but actually doesn't break for once!

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bazzite has finally got me to pay attention to Fedora derivatives again for the first time in like 15 years.

[–] bsergay@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

Granted; Fedora has always had relatively few derivatives. The same applies to openSUSE. While popularity definitely plays a role in this, there's more going on in the background that's out of scope for what this comment intends.

But yeah, Bazzite is excellent. And so is Aurora, Bluefin, secureblue and many more.