Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere
Even with SteamOS coming to more systems Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere
We recently had the exciting news that Valve plans to expand SteamOS onto more devices, starting with supporting more handhelds, which caused plenty of people to be curious about the future of the popular SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux.
Lmao this is Linux! A new distribution is only a new source to fork from, distributions only die after the last maintainer has left. Besides, Fedora atomic is build in a ci/cd pipeline from Fedora with high automation, chances Bazzite gets forks and custom editions are basically baked in and sold as advantages of this approach.
Wild that people are concerned when Bazzite has a completely different underlying toolset vs SteamOS.
Want arch? SteamOS Want fedora? Bazzite
Tbh Bazzite has an important role going forward: pointing out any bad decisions by valve and offering an off-ramp if valve enshittifies.
Bazzite is what got me started on fedora and so so far so good on 3 gaming machines. Using kinoite on a thin client to run Kodi for TV viewing
I've about had enough of mint on the gaming laptop and am obviously considering slapping bazzite on that one also, but nix or endeavour sound like pro-style shit, so I'm also considering them!
Nix is a scary place...
Join us.
Honestly became obsessed with NixOS last year and haven't turned back, I'm not much into the gaming side of things these days but installing steam and running a few games has never been easier.
Not gonna lie, I support both SteamOS provides a "plug and play" almost windows-like experience for end users. It isn't technical, which makes perfect for the average "I just wanna game and sometimes do other stuff like YouTube"
While Bazzite actually gives you more flexibility for when you still do Gaming but focuses on other stuff(eg. Coding, GameDev, work stuff, etc) Bazzite fills in a important gap that SteamOS leaves behind and, actually benefits SteamOS for not needing to cover that spot
I don't even care that it's Fedora. If I wanted to confine my-self to Steam's supported hardware, I would buy another console. Bazzite does what Steam should have been doing, and better at that.
Has a distro ever gone under purely because of competition?
Pretty different systems, bazzite is based on ublue and uses an image based system for it's immutability. You can add packages by building additional layers where steamos immutable only lets you modify the user space with changes that persist over updates. That makes Bazzite and other ublue distributions much more flexible for things other than just gaming.
For example, I love to use my bazzite steam deck for RTL-SDR radio and that needs a driver installed as a system package :)
I hope not. im looking to use it.
Building a new PC soon and really thinking about to try out one of the more gaming focused distros, so happy to see there will be multiple to choose from. I'm on Mint for a while now and had very good experience with gaming and performance. Normally I would not have time to do the whole "distro hop" thing, but damn I just might :)
One of the incredibly cool things about Bazzite (and all of the Silverblue based OSs) you can very easily rebased to another flavor. The only caveat is that apparently the Gnome flavors will cause issues with the KDE flavors or something. It's a Gnome issue from my understanding.
Rebasing takes a few minutes and a reboot, and you can easily revert it.