[thor-rodrigues]

If you're serious about using SteamOS for your gaming computer or home theater PC, I highly recommend Bazzite.

Bazzite is a Linux operating system, built on SteamOS, that's designed to make it easy to use with different hardware and controllers. It simplifies the installation process and works really well with other game launchers that aren't on Steam, and you can set it up to look like a game console with the SteamOS interface or a regular computer with a desktop.

The only real problem I had was with competitive multiplayer shooter games require kernel-level anti-cheat software, that doesn't work with Linux.

But if playing online multiplayer isn't your main thing and you’re sick of windows being as intrusive as it is, Bazzite is an outstanding choice for a gaming or home theater computer.

https://bazzite.gg/

[Hasnep]

One small correction, Bazzite isn't built on Steam OS, it's based on Fedora.

[constantcrying]

I HIGHLY recommend that you do not install niche distros. Larger distributions give you more stability and more features, they are better maintained and supported.

[tmottabr]

Bazzite is a spin on Fedora Atomic..

It ia a larger distribution better maintained and supported underneath..

All that bazitte does is put steam os interface in front of it..

[constantcrying]

I know.

Every single person would be better served by just using Fedora. The addition layer is either so thin that the value added is zero or it creates a drastically worse user experience, as the layer around Fedora is poorly maintained by a few volunteers and very little testing is done. Bazzite is pointless and a total waste of time. Nobody should use it.

All of these "layer around actually popular distro" projects are pointless and make using Linux on the desktop a worse experience.

[joseda-hg]

I don't think that's a fair take

Merely having an immutable OS, sandboxed Steam preconfigured, plus propietary drivers for Graphics and Controllers preinstalled, puts it leagues apart from just installing fedora, for people that don't need or want to care about it

The ublue/bazzite guys are hard at work making the experience as streamlined with upstream as possible, while simplifying the rest (Because the less they personally need to maintain the better)

When installing Bazzite for a living room pc, I literally didn't need to step outside of steam once, I could have been setting up an actual console for all I cared to know

[thor-rodrigues]

> Bazzite is pointless and a total waste of time. Nobody should use it.

Bazzite, as far as I am aware, is closest thing that you can get from a console-like experience for a HTPC*. Although it is possibly to configure Bazzite to launch directly into desktop mode, the key idea behind it is to launch in Big Picture mode, so you can manage the UI using a controller. Once that is done, you are pretty much into SteamOS/SteamDeck-like UI.

The appear of the Distro for me was always to get the convenience and console-like experience, while enjoying more powerful hardware and the benefits of the Steam platform.

[cosmic_cheese]

Depending on the user’s technical affinity, one exception may be Nvidia users. Only a few distros make getting the proprietary drivers up and running and updating properly easy, and last I knew vanilla Fedora wasn’t one of them.

[Sammi]

It's just marketing. Different stories hook different people.

[constantcrying]

No, it is not. All these spinoff distros are small hobby projects people develop for very niche audiences. They are terrible at marketing since inevitably they are creating a worse user experience for their users.

[Sammi]

Aren't we talking about Bazzite specifically here?