I actually don’t see the benefit of Bazzite, its supposed to be gaming. But I didn’t really ran into much problems using Bottles under Fedora either (which feels much less bloated), but maybe i was just lucky. I play mostly indie games from itch.
I also use Bottles with ProtonPlus on NixOS. Bazzite has better integration for crazy stuff too, and a lot is running with full privileges unlike Flatpak.
Just look at their features, they really add a ton. The goal is to become less and less ofc, but Steam will stay proprietary so that will always be a huge change to regular (or atomic) Fedora.
Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
Bazzite is built from ublue-os/main and ublue-os/nvidia using Fedora technology, which means expanded hardware support and built in drivers are included. Additionally, Bazzite adds the following features:
Uses the bazzite kernel to achieve HDR and expanded hardware support, among numerous other included patches - based off of the fsync kernel.
HDR available in Game mode.
NVK available on non-Nvidia builds.
Full hardware accelerated codec support for H264 decoding.
Simplified Davinci Resolve installation with davincibox (ujust install-resolve)
Ptyxis Terminal used as the default in all images. This terminal is specifically designed for the container workflow you’ll use in Bazzite. KDE Konsole and GNOME Console can be installed as flatpaks if required.
Automated duperemove service for reducing the disk space used by wine prefix contents.
Input Remapper preinstalled and enabled. <sub><sup>(Available but default-disabled on the Deck variant, may be enabled with ujust restore-input-remapper)</sup></sub>
Bazzite Portal provides an easy way to install numerous applications and tweaks, including installing LACT.
Waydroid preinstalled for running Android apps. Set it up with this quick guide.
OpenRGB i2c-piix4 and i2c-nct6775 drivers for controlling RGB on certain motherboards.
OpenRazer drivers built in, Select OpenRazer in Bazzite Portal or run ujust install-openrazer in a terminal to begin using it.
OpenTabletDriver udev rules built in, with the full software suite installable via Bazzite Portal or by running ujust install-opentabletdriver in a terminal.
Built in support for Southern Islands <sub><sup>(HD 7000)</sup></sub> and Sea Islands <sub><sup>(HD 8000)</sup></sub> AMD GPUs under the amdgpu driver.
Thats great!
I actually don’t see the benefit of Bazzite, its supposed to be gaming. But I didn’t really ran into much problems using Bottles under Fedora either (which feels much less bloated), but maybe i was just lucky. I play mostly indie games from itch.
I also use Bottles with ProtonPlus on NixOS. Bazzite has better integration for crazy stuff too, and a lot is running with full privileges unlike Flatpak.
Just look at their features, they really add a ton. The goal is to become less and less ofc, but Steam will stay proprietary so that will always be a huge change to regular (or atomic) Fedora.
https://bazzite.gg/
https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite?tab=readme-ov-file#about--features
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Bazzite is a custom Fedora Atomic image built with cloud native technology that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld.
Bazzite is built from ublue-os/main and ublue-os/nvidia using Fedora technology, which means expanded hardware support and built in drivers are included. Additionally, Bazzite adds the following features:
ujust install-resolve)duperemoveservice for reducing the disk space used by wine prefix contents.ujust restore-input-remapper)</sup></sub>ujust install-openrazerin a terminal to begin using it.ujust install-opentabletdriverin a terminal.amdgpudriver.So yeah it is bloated and less secure too, but “just works”