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Bazzite sees a massive jolt in installs in late June and early July, catapulting it to over 86k active devices. It has doubled the number of active devices since November. (europe.pub)

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Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So does iOS, but it's 'bad' to be walled garden there, but 'good' to be walled garden here.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

iOS is a walled garden because they do everything they can to block third party app stores, and the "activation" process allows Apple to remotely brick your phone at any time. Immutable Linux distros don't have these issues.