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Bazzite 42 listed in June 2025 Steam Hardware Survey (pawb.social)
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cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/27451562

Seemingly for the first time, the Bazzite gaming-focused Linux distro has appeared on the Steam Hardware Survey. Well done to the Bazzite team for making such an amazing distro for gaming (and now just general usage as a while too)! Been my main choice for going on a year now for my general use distro, and I haven't looked back.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I’m really happy to see Bazzite climbing the chart. It’s by far the best gaming-centric Linux distro.

I’m not sure I will ever understand the appeal of Linux Mint. Not because it’s bad, but because there are better distros for every use-case I can think up, especially gaming.

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Mint is very plain and simple, which makes it the most non-threatening transition from Windows for casual users. It's also one of the most well rounded distros. Sure, other distros can do specific things better, but Mint deserves its flowers for its polish.

[-] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, bazzite, or any atomic distro, is not something I would recommend to someone coming from windows. It's just too different in some ways.

Been running bazzite myself as a fairly experienced linux user and love it though.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

I found it easy to transition to as a new linux user. I'm curious what you think makes it too different.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

I think it would actually be better for beginners, were it not for issue solving: any web search for a solution is bound to give you mostly answers written for traditional distros, which would potentially be incompatible with Bazzite.

[-] Maldreamer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

If you don't mind me asking, why exactly is bazzite a gaming centric Linux distro? What does it do different from other distro. I know it's an atomised fedora based distro, aside from the drivers and software that's pre installed, what does it offer that it gets recommended as distro for gaming user?

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

... Thats about it. Bazzite comes with everything you need to play games without much hassle pre installed. All the drivers, software to run windows games, various utilities such as key remapping, steam, and if desired you can even get emulators pre installed to play console games.

It also works with next to zero cli knowledge required which is great for anyone who may be coming from windows and is intimidated by that Linux facet. You can just slap it on a machine and generally things just work and you can start playing.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

What else do you need?

You install, log into steam and play games. The age of modpatching custom kernels for low latency or hardware hacks is gone. The kernel already das what it takes to outperform windows on gaming. It's all on the user space now to bring convenience and ease of use.

The package distribution model was never popular with users. It was perfect for sys admins. But people don't want to manage a system, they want to use their device. Image based containerized OS and software distribution makes more sense for end users who have no interest on troubleshooting a pacbage dependency conflict.

[-] afaix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What would be better for desktop use? It’s simple, with wizards and help for setting up almost everything, has support for all the ubuntu stuff like ppas and deb packages so if there is a linux package for some software you are usually covered, and it also doesn’t restrict you from doing whatever you want, so you can change it to your liking (and at least there is a stable base that you start changes from)

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Kubuntu minimal (no snaps) or Pop!_OS would be great picks for those use-cases.

[-] Owljfien@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Why anyone uses manjaro is beyond me

[-] De4th69@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I'm perfectly happy with Manjaro.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They won me over since Sunshine on Fedora was a hassle to install and gave me corrupted graphics. Wouldn't be surprised if Fedora's codec-hell had something to do with it. On Bazzite everything I needed was preinstalled and worked out of the box.

[-] poinck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think the Flatpak runtime is the real king here. It is easy to install and sandboxes your closed source games.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

No bara?

[-] moonlight@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty pleasantly surprised at how well Arch and its derivatives are doing.

[-] sixdripb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

probably many people on fedora use steam flatpak (listed here as freedesktop sdk)

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I’m (also pleasantly) surprised most of those arch derivatives are listed separately.

[-] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

im honestly surprised my OS is lumped into Other. i would have assumed there were more people on Fedora

[-] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Fedora is great but installing nvidia drivers is just enough of a hassle for most people to skip over it and choose a derivative like Bazzite

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Also codecs.. even with the right repositories enabled, you'll tend to install a media application that manages to be utterly incapable of actually processing most media.

They've made strides on this front but it's still messed up.

Also sometimes they are too aggressive on one front. Some of the applications you can install from their repository that have some python based features are broken because they can't handle python 3.13. There's some ability to install python 3.12 but without much beyond the core making it less useful.

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Here I am thinking how can we bully GOG into making their platform linux-ready

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

Strange that it was previously at 0.00%, isn't it?

[-] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 5 points 1 month ago

I believe it was lumped into "Other" and not tracked previously.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago

Of it's not tracked then how do they know which ones are in the top?

[-] lambipapp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It is tracked, but valve probably has a threshold around 1-2% for when they start listing the os as a separe entry outside the 'other'.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Pop_OS really gets less love than it deserves. imo it should replace Mint as the standard go-to recc.

[-] imecth@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

Hard to recommend a distro that hasn't seen a new release in over 3 years.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It's basically a rolling release so that's false

[-] imecth@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

Tried the iso in a VM, gnome is still very much on version 42. They obviously abandoned shop to focus all their resources on their shiny new DE.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

They also stay pretty current with the kernel and many other packages. Their new DE is hopefully going to be good. They are trying to make a better gnomish experience. We'll see.

[-] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

They also stay pretty current with the kernel and many other packages.

I guess that's better than nothing, that doesn't make it a rolling release though. It's an unstable point release that got half-stuck in the past until they get their cosmic shit together.

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