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Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg
My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
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will never get why not just use Fedora
Easy setup to be a HTPC with (usually) no fuss. Gaming focused to be a Steam Machine before the Steam Machine. I'm definitely looking at an immutable distro for my HTPC when I get around/afford to building one. I'm still hopeful that content providers will make native interfaces for both Steam Big Picture and KDE Plasma Big Screen.
Because if I want to game I dont want to troubleshoot. Bazzite just works and updates itself. I got other machines for experementing
Bazzite will have you troubleshooting a lot more than regular fedora.
I've been running Bazzite as my gaming PC for maybe a year now, and have done literally no configuring or troubleshooting since I installed it. I went to Desktop Mode to install Discord once, and otherwise have just treated it as a gaming console. Works great!
Thats great but not unique to bazzite. The reason I say its extra troubleshooting required from bazzite is because gaming on linux for people requires configuring for certain games not everything is one click out of the box. When you need to do this on a normal distro its easy because you can do things the intended way by running whatever install script it has but on Bazzite you need to convert the instructions into bazzite specific steps. I see a ton of posts of Bazzite users getting stuck trying to do basic things because bazzite is blocking them I also see a ton of bazzite users having hardware issues because bazzite is blocking it and they dont know how to add a line in the config the bazzite way. Maybe this will get better once more people are using bazzite and more bazzite specific documentation and help threads are available online. unfortunately a lot of the troubleshooting is done in discord so its not searchable which really sucks.
Bazzite is the only OS on my desktop, and I use it as a regular PC (meaning not game console), and everything works great.
And no, I didn't have to tinker with anything to play.
Unless you consider mounting drives in Steam the first time around, tinkering.
Ok? You dont have to "tinker with anything to play" on other distros either.
You said there's extra troubleshooting, which has not been my experience whatsoever.
Yeah but thats no different to a normal distro. Normal distros dont just randomly require troubleshooting they are pretty stable given that regressions are caught upstream and bazzite is based off fedora stable.
The majority of linux troubleshooting is when you're trying to get something new working (like a game/software/device) and that will always be extra on non standard distros like bazzite. I would consider this changed once bazzite specific guides/scripts are commonplace.
I've been running bazzite for 5 years on my main desktop, I know that you're lying.
I've been running bazzite for over 2 years on 3 computers with vastly different hardware, and I also know he's lying.
It's a fedora atomic distro. I like the isolation of apps and it being "almost impossible to break", and I want to give a serious try to what looks like the future of OSs.
I tend to fiddle with the OS a lot, and this isolation limits me to flatpak and distrobox. It is a big limitation, but is perfect if you want to have a reproducible, isolated environments to develop code, but installing a system package is just too easy. Basically you need to spend time and know what you are doing to workaround this isolation, which makes sense to me.
Bazzite tweaks everything to be gaming-focused (it also ships with steam preinstalled, for example). The other fedora atomics (silverblue/kinoite) are just more "generic" and not gaming-focused compared to bazzite, but they have a similar setup. I think bazzite just customizes them.
You can also switch your entire system between them, with just a CLI command, with the ability to rollback too. So once you are in an atomic distro, you can switch without too much pain (in theory, at least).
I really want to make it or fedora kinoite my main distro at some point
That's why I grabbed it. Gaming focused and immutability was interesting. I've been running Linux for a long time and honestly the immutable restrictions are really nice once you adjust to them. I do quite a lot of development on my bazzite box and I don't see any reason for anything else now.
If you plan on gaming on atomic Fedora it is basically just that with everything already preconfigured. I chose it because it came with Nvidia drivers, codecs, a bunch of tweaks and gaming utilities preinstalled (protonqt, distrobox, lutris, etc)
You could install all of this on Fedora but IMO it's convenient to just have everything already configured for you if you were going to do it anyways
I also like that it is atomic. Builds on the same image tag guarantee an identical build, which completely fixes the "works on my machine" problem when helping my friends. Two users on the same release will never have mismatched shared libraries or rogue packages, everyone on the same tag has the exact same environment. Plus, it makes rolling back bad upgrades incredibly easy
Codecs, the avarage user doesn't know what they are, let alone figure out how to install them on fedora
This is the reason i have a hard time recommending Fedora to new users, they can't even play youtube videos until they've pulled in rpmfusion and ffmpeg.
If you try it you will understand how simple and amazing it is.
So then bazzite is poop with some sprinkles on top?