Bazzite

Reader supplied reviews for Bazzite Average rating 8.6 from 30 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. 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: 43.20251102 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 Version: 43.20251029 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-10-31 Votes: 5 After the end of support for Windows 10 , I decided to install Linux on the desktop. I also have a laptop that had Fedora on it for a while with now issues. But for my desktop that I also use for gaming I wanted something that would work with my steam library. Only one game doesn't work ( Destiny) , so I decided to stay with Bazzite 42, I was a little worried because I have a NVIDIA card RTX 3060 and the drivers for Linux are hit or miss, but so far no issues. Even the update to version 43 had no problems. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 42.20251019 Rating: 9 Date: 2025-10-29 Votes: 5 Bazzite, at least in my opinion, is the best gaming focused widely distributed OS available right now. I have been solely using Bazzite for the last 2 years on my Minisforum HX99G in my living room. The HX99G is certainly one of the most capable gaming mini PCs considering its diminutive size, but Windows just felt wrong on it, and within a few days I decided to move to Bazzite due to its incredibly tight alignment to the Steam Deck's Steam OS look and feel. I think the use case for this is clear for me. Bazzite, with the native Big Picture mode enables a console like look and feel to a PC whilst also having the desktop mode for any tweaking or emulator setup. The OS itself is clean, no bloat or annoying alerts and is extremely quick to navigate and boot in either desktop or gaming mode. I have a Desktop Gaming PC also with an RTX 2070 Super and i7 10700F and it has Windows 11 on it. I just do not use it over the Bazzite setup. For my money, Windows has become bloated and buggy. It has had its day when it comes to gaming now and I think with the ever increasing compatibility of Proton, Linux, and especially OS's like Bazzite could very well be the solution. The only downsides I have experienced so far is some games using anti-cheat software are not compatible. This is a small price to pay for the freedom from Microsoft Additionally, the system is not as immutable as it claims. I experienced a catastrophic failure during an update whereby I ran out of space mid update. The system, it appears did not have a check in place that the storage was sufficient to run through the whole process. I put this down to largely being my own fault when I knew I was low on storage on the boot drive. Sadly this also affected the previous viable boot and I ended up having to do a fresh install. This did not take long however and now I know to ensure my boot drive always has plenty of space. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 30 reader reviews of Bazzite...