Bazzite

Reader supplied reviews for Bazzite Average rating 8.5 from 32 review(s) What are your thoughts on Bazzite? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 43.2025111442.2025101941.20250409 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 43.20251114 Rating: 8 Date: 2025-11-17 Votes: 0 After more than 10 years not using any linux distro, I decided to switch to Bazzite on my gaming laptop because win11 is a disaster (possibly worse than Vista, and even ME Yep, I'm getting old.) And apart from a few issues dued to nvidia drivers not playing nice with Wayland (which Bazzite uses as the only available compositor), I'm more than happy to report that it just work,at least with the Desktop version. For people coming to linux, it's a very friendly user expérience, where everything works ootb without tinkering too much. Performance in games is similar on most games I've tested (Elden Ring, Mhw Iceborne, Cyberpunk, Control and Armored Core 6), if not better than on Windows (especiallt cyberpunk) And after a few months as my daily driver, I'm still amazed about how the system is quiet and efficient. I've seen more advanced users getting frustrated by the immutable nature of the os, and beginners might get confused by how the system manages installed program (layering vs flatpak), but for a casual use, gaming, browsing, listening to music and watch videos, it's a perfect candidate to replace Windows. I wish the community would be bigger, as super-friendly as the people on discord and discourse are, it's still hard to find help for specific issues. O Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43.20251114 Rating: 6 Date: 2025-11-16 Votes: 0 I am already a long time linux user on my laptops and decided to finally make the switch on my desktop after windows 10 end of life like many others, but what I can say is that this distro is NOT the alternative to steamOS that it was marketed to me as through youtube videos, reddit, search engines, etc. Steam Link doesn't work, this is something that is common to certain distros, and there is no workaround as far as I can tell. Bazzite is aware of this and they seem to have no solution for it other than to use an alternative streaming software that they package with the distro. The other headache is trying to use a separate drive to store games. With games being as large as they are these days, this is a requirement. I spent a half an hour trying to get around what should be a simple problem and realized I'd be better off installing another distro. If you don't need these features and just want to use your PC to game and limit yourself to flatpak it does run the games I played as well or better than they ran under Windows (Stalker 2 in particular) My final conclusion is that this is a distro for PCs dedicated for gaming and new linux users who just want to replace windows and get back to gaming and doing basic things like browsing the web, listening to music, etc. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 43.20251102 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-14 Votes: 1 I love it and have been using it for quite a while now. Very few issues, and most issues fall on developers not supporting Linux. Steam comes pre-installed, so that is a nice touch. KDE is KDE but it always looks great and is easy to use for the most part. Everything else though, works and runs phenomenally. Running normally, I see around 4-6 GB of RAM usage. In power save mode, I can see under 4 GB. I haven't had any issues with drivers and I have a Ryzen 9 7950x and an RTX 3080 OC. But very nice software and hardware support though! I can't fault Bazzite for my issues with Razer though. Razer won't add support for Linux sadly. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 32 reader reviews of Bazzite...