The desktop image was the first image we made, and that same install is what Bazzite is still built on today :)

Bazzite lead developer here, we actually never used the flatpak. Our first release had it installed in a distrobox container on the desktop images. Deck images always had RPM Steam because Steam is essentially functioning as a desktop environment there. We moved them both to be RPM for support consistency reasons.

I'm not sure what you mean by that, it's directly built on Fedora which is probably one of if not the best workstation OS.

The very first release was actually a steam deck release, the desktop release came later.

Gamescope is broken on Nvidia and has been for years.

We remove Firefox because having it on the image is a security hazard. You want your browser to update more often than your operating system.

We prefer the flatpak, but if for some reason you need the RPM I would suggest installing it with distrobox.

Your use case works

I opted for Lutris because Bottles has issues that make it unrecommendable and unsupportable by us.

Because it's only shipped as a flatpak (They bullied the Fedora packager until they quit) it doesn't support the frame limiter built into gamescope on the deck images (Requires a patch in Mesa).

As a contributor to the Northstar mod for Titanfall 2, we originally wanted to recommend it as the default Linux install path due to it's friendly UI, but found because it avoids using winetricks it's missing required dependencies. Despite us trying to work with them and contributing code, to this day it still doesn't work, and recent discussions about this problem were extremely abrasive from their side, much like the above linked issue.

Ultimately Lutris provides a more consistent experience for gamers that are already used to Steam - with the same tools working for both. That's my reasoning anyway.

As far as wine, we only install wine-core and not the entire stack, that's purely for Lutris dependency reasons and isn't intended to be used by the end user. Wine-ZGUI for instance is a Flatpak, and Lutris will install its own copy of wine - most likely Wine-GE or a derivative.

It's layered into the image like any other rpm. Standard steam package you'd install in Workstation.

The testing build of Bazzite should have everything in your bottom link and more ;)

Should support both, but there's an upstream kernel bug at the moment that can cause certain RDNA GPUs to lock at the lowest clock speed at certain resolutions and refresh rates. Just something to look out for

Can they bring back making games worth playing first?