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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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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.