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Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Tom's Hardware post linked in the article has an estimate of how many downloads it was:

From October 29 to November 28, team Bazzite is happy to share that the site had 730,000 unique visitors, and it served 1PB of data during a month, for the first time. How many Bazzite OS downloads does this imply? We looked at the various ISO installers on offer and noted that an Nvidia GPU friendly ISO was 7.5GB, and an AMD GPU-ready ISO 6.6GB. So, if we assume an average of 7.0GB per ISO, that would be about 143,000 Bazzite downloads – getting close to 150,000 new users, as a best-case scenario.

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

7.0GB per ISO

What the hell. Why so heavy

[–] Damage@feddit.it 29 points 1 day ago

Because it downloads nothing and it's got several softwares and tools bundled in

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's got most stuff on it. They'd include the entire repo if they could, but a dvd only fits 8gb.

[–] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what percentage of the downloaders burned a DVD to boot the ISO. I have to imgaine almost everyone is using USB sticks these days.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

(Installed it on an older DDR3 PC for someone)

[–] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Was it more convenient or was it not bootable from USB? Bootable from USB started becoming common about 20 years ago, I'm surprised Bazzite even works on machines that old.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

It does, but runs a bit slow. Switched it to Garuda xfce after.

I don't know if it was faster or slower than USB 2.0 Speeds

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

Gives you more comparability on pen drives, too. Lots of people probably have a 8gb stick lying around, people are somewhat less likely to have a bigger one.

[–] wagesj45@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

To fit all the gamin'

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

IIRC, it is a current limitation of rpm-ostree, which results in an ISO that is nearly double in size.