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Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by haunter »

KyleGospo wrote: post #70
haunter wrote: post #21

As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline. Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming…

Hi, I'm the founder. While what you're saying isn't impossible, it's unlikely. In the event it did happen, Bazzite is a fork, a signing key, and a couple forked Fedora Copr repos away from being made completely in someone else's control.

Oh no I didn't mean as a personal attack or anything so thanks for taking your time and for the reply! I know the chances are miniscule but there is that 1% in the back of my brain because it happened in the past with some distros I've really liked

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by keyle »

Two distros with fairly similar ideas have showed up for the "replacement for windows" recently[1].

Zorin OS and Bazzite... I was hoping someone who has tried both could enlighten me as to why one is better than the other?

[1] I say recently because I'm not following linux very closely.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by mmh0000 »

KyleGospo wrote: post #70
haunter wrote: post #21

As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline. Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming…

Hi, I'm the founder. While what you're saying isn't impossible, it's unlikely. In the event it did happen, Bazzite is a fork, a signing key, and a couple forked Fedora Copr repos away from being made completely in someone else's control.

Weren’t you threatening to shutdown Bazzite just a few months ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381265

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by KyleGospo »

_cenw wrote: post #76
KyleGospo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm the founder. While what you're saying isn't impossible, it's unlikely. In the event it did happen, Bazzite is a fork, a signing key, and a couple forked Fedora Copr repos away from being made completely in someone else's control.

I don't doubt it, but I actually really hate that the build system is a bunch of bash scripts, github actions and assuming the previous stage builds fine. Especially when the custom image forkable repo has an action commented out to squeeze more temporary storage out of GHA hosted runners because some images don't even fit on those (like the gnome-deck). I wish the entire setup was a little more decoupled and maybe a…

Fork and remove this line: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile#...

Note that we remove rpm Firefox for security reasons. You do not want your browser to only update with your entire operating system.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by sunshowers »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #31
carlosjobim wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's common for people to have both a PC and a game console. Even a PC, an iPad and a game console. Right tool for the right job, not a bad idea.

Yes of course, but if you have a PC that's good enough for gaming, it's also good enough (more than good enough) for all your other PC needs.

I have separate PCs for gaming and work. The former lives in the living room and the latter by my desk.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by KyleGospo »

0xakhil wrote: post #79
KyleGospo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm the founder. While what you're saying isn't impossible, it's unlikely. In the event it did happen, Bazzite is a fork, a signing key, and a couple forked Fedora Copr repos away from being made completely in someone else's control.

@KyleGospo, Any plans for an arm64 version?

Yes, it'll happen eventually. I can't promise it'll be a good gaming experience anytime soon though.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by KyleGospo »

mmh0000 wrote: post #93
KyleGospo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm the founder. While what you're saying isn't impossible, it's unlikely. In the event it did happen, Bazzite is a fork, a signing key, and a couple forked Fedora Copr repos away from being made completely in someone else's control.

Weren’t you threatening to shutdown Bazzite just a few months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44381265

No, my statement was Fedora was about to shoot itself in the foot and that it'd be easier for Bazzite to not exist than for us to clean up their mess.

Note that this was in a change proposal which was rescinded without a vote by it's proposer.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by d3Xt3r »

mastazi wrote: post #50
haunter wrote: post #21

As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline. Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming…

People who are not new Linux users might prefer a distro which is part of the same "family" of distros they are already familiar with. Steam OS I believe is based on Arch. Bazzite is based on Fedora. Personally I have experience with Debian distros so if I wanted a gaming-focused distro I would pick maybe something like Pop OS.

Pop!_OS isn't good for gaming thanks to being quite behind in package versions. You're better off going with a dedicated gaming distro (which offers recent packages) such as PikaOS if you want a Debian base.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by Forgeties79 »

haunter wrote: post #21

As much as I love Bazzite at end of the day it's still a custom distro and every single day there is a chance they just close the project down and move on. Happened to so many distros in the past, this is not out of question. I’m not saying “big corporate” distros are better but personally I'd rather stick to something more mainline. Hopefully Valve will release a general version of SteamOS with Steam Machine coming…

Since I primarily use bazzite to play Steam games it honestly doesn’t remotely concern me. I can just redownload the games on another distro.

Re: Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming

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Post by darcien »

Recently I learned about CachyOS, it has custom scheduler to run things smoothly, including games. And SteamOS is also doing the custom scheduler for games. From what I can find, Bazzite doesn't seem to use custom scheduler.

Does these custom scheduler bring noticeable gains during usage? My previous linux desktop was a non-gaming distro, so I'm a bit curious on these fancy stuffs.

- BORE, CachyOS scheduler: https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_basic/why_cachyos/#advanced...

- LAVD, SteamOS scheduler: https://www.igalia.com/2025/11/helpingvalve.html

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