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For the specific context I was replying to – Nvidia drivers – Bazzite's write protection is completely irrelevant because there are editions with Nvidia drivers preinstalled.
Depends on the use case. SteamOS comes with Distrobox. All non-Flatpak needs of mine can be achieved through this.
Sure, but the original context was a new user wanting to try Linux on their gaming laptop.
Both Bazzite and SteamOS will result in headaches from their limitations.
And I was giving a heads up regarding Nvidia graphics and only Nvidia graphics. I know what I wrote.
Sure...?
It kind of does matter, from what I understand. nVidia's closed-source laptop chip drivers were apparently a huge headache for Linux gaming.
Yep, and they're still quite troublesome. But installing Nvidia drivers is not the only problematic aspect of an immutable distro, so it doesn't matter at all if Bazzite makes it easy as far as my point goes.