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Is there a list of features? Can anyone tell me why I should switch to this from fedora workstation as a normal home user?
Never see or wait for updates ever again. No fear of accidentally shutting down pc while kernel gets updated.
Media codecs preinstalled.
Perfectly set up gaming system if you use Bazzite (Bluefin's sibling).
Get more in touch with the "cloud-native" (containers, declarative configuration) system model which is probably the future of Linux.
Trying something new is always beneficial.