I have recently moved from Bazzite to Fedora Budgie and if I am being honest I have not found it to be what I was hoping.
I liked Bazzite and everything just worked but I started to find that using only Flatpaks was too restrictive for what I wanted to achieve. I thought that moving to Fedora which Bazzite is based on would open things up a little more but still give me an overall experience similar to Bazzite were everything just working.
I chose the Budgie Spin as it looked nice and seemed to have a default application selection that I liked but since installing it things have not been as smooth as I would have liked and I have encountered several issues in general usage that I didn’t have when using Bazzite.
For example, VLC has odd audio playback issues where sometimes the audio just doesn’t play unless I skip around a bit and then it might start. Similarly with VLC sometimes some videos just don’t show anything other than a black screen and you can occasionally hear audio due to the above mentioned audio issue. If I use the included Parole media player these issues not no occur but subtitles don’t work as well with Parole.
I have encountered other random quirks in general usage and I am wondering if this is just the nature of Fedora vs Bazzite or if using the Budgie Spin might be the cause of some of these odd occurrences and if going to Fedora KDE (not a big fan of the Gnome look) would help resolve these odd behaviours.
So, do Spins have a greater impact on the overall experience of Fedora? or do Spins just chance how things look due to the different desktop environments and going to a main Fedora edition I am going to experience the same oddness that I am now?