So I’m at my monthly “let’s try and see if Linux finally works well enough as a daily desktop driver” phase, and this time, I found Bazzite which is, in essence, Fedora KDE turned into an image that ports most of the Steam OS features.
I love SteamOS on the Deck, so this feels like a natural path. In fact, this distro in particular comes with an image specifically designed to boot Nvidia drivers correctly, including secure boot, which is quite rare.
Has anybody tried this project? I’ve seen some reviews, but they’re running the system on the Steam Deck itself, I’m wondering about the Desktop version also offered.
EDIT: Experiment ended. Back on Windows. Bazzite was indeed one of the best I’ve tried so far, still a decade away from being good enough.
Tried it, didn’t like it all that much. You’re limited to installing flatpak versions of apps, since every app is flatpak based it pops up a notification in the KDE notification tray and you have to manually click the prompt in the notification and approve it for every app.
Since it’s flatpak only I can’t install gnome-disks to setup automount of my game SSD and I really don’t like using KDE partition manager as well as manually editing fstab, I know I could just use the gnome version but I really dislike gnome and would prefer KDE.
Game performance was negligible between bazzite and every other distro I’ve used so there’s no real reason for me to switch.
Overall, it’s not terrible, but there are several minor things that add up to a frustrating experience. I feel limited when using bazzite, limiting me to flatpak just feels odd and is probably something I could get used to but honestly I just don’t have the time to waste.
That’s not correct you can use ostree to install whatever you’re want like normal