Bazzite

Reader supplied reviews for Bazzite Average rating 7.5 from 8 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: -- 41 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: 41 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-03-24 Votes: 0 Bazzite has proven to be an exceptionally stable and beginner-friendly operating system. One of the key strengths of Bazzite OS is its user-friendly nature. The developers have clearly put a lot of thought into making the system accessible to beginners. This makes it an ideal choice for those who are transitioning from other operating systems. However, despite its many positives, there are a few areas where Bazzite OS could be improved to better suit the needs of more advanced users. One of the main drawbacks I encountered was the inability to remove certain pre-installed applications that I do not use. While the OS comes with a useful selection of software, having the option to uninstall unwanted apps would help in customizing the system to better fit individual preferences and free up resources. Additionally, I found that some settings are locked down and cannot be modified, which can be frustrating for users who prefer a higher degree of control over their system. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: Rating: 5 Date: 2025-03-24 Votes: 0 Update to 41 from 40 failed to boot. There was no easy way to revert. Found and used some obscure command line commands Googled from a Fedora site after figuring out how to grub boot to the old system. Installing certain software e.g. MC seems to modify the base image which is odd and also makes it unbootable. It seems this is not completely finished and needs more testing to be considered as beginner friendly. Most things in the base distro did work until attempts to update. For a Linux distro targeting beginners, this is unacceptable. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 41 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-03-21 Votes: 0 Bazzite is an excellent distro! It's intended for gaming, but not limited to it by any means. It just includes tweaks and apps that make games (including Windows games) run really well out of the box. It comes in KDE and Gnome flavors. I used Ubuntu for 8 years and it was painful. So much work and tinkering was required just to get basic hardware to work, and then some things would break every release cycle and you had to fix them again (or you could stay on LTS releases and be restricted to using software that's 2 years old). Bazzite works out of the box and updates are FAST! Kernel, driver and desktop environment updates get pushed in days after they get released (as opposed 6 months with Ubuntu, Mint etc). The installation is super stable because it's atomic and you don't have to worry about an update conflicting with the tinkering that you needed to do to get your stuff to work, or vice-versa. And you don't have to worry about it deteriorating over time, because (since it's atomic) the base OS is always kept in line with the distro image and cannot diverge or get corrupted. The only real downside of an atomic distro is that some tweaks are difficult or impossible to make, such as replacing and using a custom kernel, GPU drivers or desktop environment. So make sure your stuff works out of the box. And if it does, then you're "set for life" and you can expect great stability and new features with very little maintenance work. If you really want to tinker a lot and replace those things, then I recommend a non-atomic distro. In short, if you want an environment that's MODERN, quickly gets the LATEST UPDATES, is STABLE, WORKS OUT OF THE BOX, and you don't have a need to replace parts of the OS, then this is for you. Note: If you don't intend to play games (or don't need gaming features and tweaks included in the OS), then you can also look at Bluefin (KDE) or Aurora (Gnome) for an otherwise similar great experience. If you're a developer and want developer features, look at Bluefin DX, Aurora DX, or Bazzite DX. If you're a game developer, look at Bazzite GDX. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 8 reader reviews of Bazzite...