By “core apps”, you mean literally only two applications.
The terminal is replaced with one that has a container workflow because that is the recommended and expected workflow for anyone working in a terminal.
The store is replaced with Bazaar because it is the only one that is even trying to provide a good flathub experience.
That’s it. Everything else is stock KDE.
Founder here, we have a sponsorship deal with Cloudflare that thankfully covers the vast majority of this. Our hosting costs right now for everything, including the GitHub runners, are $65, with the domain being another $100/yr.
The intention with the donations is to pay for those costs, travel for Linux conventions, and for us to have a fund for additional higher cost items like eventually doing proper secure boot support. At no point will myself or others be collecting a paycheck out of those funds, and I’ve been paying our bills for the last 3 years or so. I’m privileged to be able to do this as a hobby and not as a job.
Thank you for thinking about us! I appreciate the sentiment
They’re so easy to install that you don’t have to, it’s built in
You don’t use the terminal to do updates, updates are automatic by default.
We also completely removed discovers ability to update OSTree. It’s never been present in a single build of Bazzite.
This is why I don’t pay attention to people that complain about toolkits. You don’t like the way it looks so you make up absolutely disingenuous points to argue about it.
Bazzite, there’s a nvidia open and closed edition, both with the drivers preinstalled and ready to use.