It’s not a pain, it’s just a different process than what you’re used to

Just an fyi, Bazzite does all of that as well. It’s not just gaming, it’s a fully functional OS

This is similar to my experience. I learned a lot by regularly breaking my EndeavourOS install, but after a couple of years I got tired of that and Bazzite has been almost boringly stable ever since

I switched a year or two ago to Bazzite from EOS, and it (EOS) broke all of the time during large updates. If I went more than a week without updating, it was almost guaranteed to break. I used TimeShift all of the time out of necessity. I’ve only needed to rollback my Bazzite install once, and that was because I fucked it up. The rollback process was also incredibly easy

sudo rpm-ostree install foo.rpm

Should work. I’ve been doing this with the mullvad VPN client. Only annoyance is that I have to manually install when there’s an update (the app notifies me)

Bazzite also manages the updates without a user needing to know how the terminal works. (I personally don’t like that, but it’s probably good for new users).

Should be noted that this is entirely optional. I update manually through the terminal with “ujust update”

Just not true. You can do nearly everything on Bazzite that you can do on other distros, there’s sometimes just a different (often easier) process to do it.

Don’t need to layer packages, that’s like number 3 or 4 on a list of options to try before resorting to layering.

You can do most things on distrobox with almost zero overhead

I mean, they could have pretty quickly and easily tried a different distro

Journalism is dead, in general