The Steam Machine of the Future 

Bazzite transformed my Legion Go handheld into a giant Steam Deck. Love it.

"live sound change, thats just crazy" the most relatable moment of awe for a linux user ever 😂

I switched from windows 10 to PopOS around Christmas time. Installed it on a separate SSD, to keep the windows 10 install just in case I needed it....I've not gone back to windows. PopOS has done everything I've needed, emulation works very well, basic desktops tasks are easy, and modern gaming works very well, I've not had a single problem. Good bye Microsoft.

People who say "Gaming is hard on Linux" haven't tried proton. I don't mean to diminish the difficulty; I do most of my gaming with GOG games on Lutris, and it's fine, I'd say 80%-90% are basically out of the box, but Steam Deck and Steam OS are seriously on another level. The future of Linux Gaming is here. It really is a paradigm shift.

Ujust is not the main package maintainer. Bazzite uses rpm-ostree, flatpaks and homebrew as package managers. Ujust is a shortcut utility for common tasks. Ptyis terminal used to be called prompt terminal.

Great to see Bazzite getting the love it deserves. Been daily driving it on my Thinkpad z13, and it’s fantastic not only as a gaming-centric device, but also a great Fedora GNOME desktop, so use as a main box isn’t out of the question. If you end up wiping your Steam Deck proper and using Bazzite, would love to see a compare/contrast after some use.

typo in title just funny, we know that he intended "steam" but stream is good too

I've been rocking Bazzite for a few days on my Steam Deck and my laptop, primarily relying on an Arch Distrobox for stuff that doesn't have to touch the base system. Gaming is painless and everything is rock solid.

2:01 Bro's network name is peak humor

Typo in the video title . . .

Has a person who uses nobara on my home theater pc. Linux gaming is pretty much perfect. HDR support is almost perfect, for movies Dolby Atmos support is amazing (does require tinkering with kodi or mpv). The only obviously downside is anti cheat, but to be honest I'm not playing FPS on my home theater PC, so as long as I can play online coop games it's just perfect.

The pace of improvement in the last year or two on fully integrated Linux gaming experiences has been a sight to behold

thanks for covering this, bazzite is a really neat project

Yes pls! Bazzite Desktop Challenge!

This Bazzite content is so needed. It's more or less my first linux distro as a PC gamer and someone who uses office software. The transition has been mostly seamless but the community could definitely benefit from a comprehensive guide to gaming on Bazzite or linux more generally. Like from initial set up, automounting drives and making new steam libraries(unexpectedly tricky), to things like hardware tips like what components work well with linux or cpu/gpu/ram tuning or setting up an NVME raid game drive. An easier onboarding could really help open up the pipeline of PC gamers who are getting off windows 10 and don't necessarily appreciate windows 11.

been using this on my steam deck for a while... it works insanely well and the fact it has a wizard installer so you can install whatever you please makes everything so much easier! (They're also overhauling the install wizard to make it better)

Been using Bazzite on my Steam Deck for 6 months. Works great.

Great Video Chris! Probably the best OOTB experience. Got the Desktop Version and the Deck Version for my Ally! Atomic/Immutable Systems are crazy reliable and still powerful in the hands of a pro, but safe for the noob. As the Distrobox Dev said: immutable distros are for the casuals and devs. I truly belive this is the future! And the "normal" distros wont go away... For the Hobbyist.

Thank you Chris for reminding us that tech is a source of joy and the constant process of discovering someting new is amazing

I would like to see a video of BazziteOS running on other handheld PCs like the ROG Ally and the Lenovo Legion GO.

Thank you for keeping us up-to-date on Linux gaming. I do hope that this Bazzite is continually developed. This so makes it possible to have a console experience (which I love) on Linux.

Super Cool! Thanks Chris! 🤗

I'm running the desktop image in dual boot with my win 11, and I have the deck image on my living room pc. Bazzite is awesome.

you should cover universal blue and what they're doing as well with fedora atomic the ability to rebase to other OCI images is just nuts, nvidia drivers have never been easier to deal with, and the ability to switch desktop environments with one command, crazy stuff

I'm looking forward to HDR support in Linux Mint, this maybe an option to get my living room main PC working with my LG big screen fully. Is it surround sound compatible? Does it have HDR support for NVIDIA cards?

I've been using this on my rog ally for about a week now and I'm actually in the middle of trying to set it up for dual boot right now. I installed Nobara onto a spare drive for my desktop a while ago and it didn't work out too well but fingers crossed that this runs as smooth as it does on my handheld 🤞🏾

Oh man, this is huge for me. I'm about to be forced to sell my gaming rig since I'm deep in debt. Fortunately, I don't game much these days, but I have a spare debloated windows rig that'll become my main after I sell it. I planned on compiling Arch on it since my lenovo (not ibm) thinkpad finally crapped out. Chris, you're a huge inspiration to me in every way. Not just for your knowledge, but your genuine enthusiasm for products instead of shilling. Thanks for everything you do.

going to try this in a VM, really curious. Thanks for the heads up

This looks quite cool. Despite the fact that you can set Arch Linux up the same way manually, it's still tedious and sometimes impossible for some people, and tedious to maintain.

Ive been running bazzite on the ROG ally. It’s friggin amazing. everything from TDP to RGB just works

I haven’t tried this OS yet, but Chimera has been amazing for power savings on my big rig. its ability to cap the frame rate on demand really helps during summertime.

I was having issues with sound when I first set up my TV to my desktop PC, it would default to another source every single time but after messing around with the sound settings in desktop mode and turning off that sound source that I never used, it would default to the TV every time This whole thing really makes me wish for a steam controller 2 based off the steam deck controls

Interesting stuff! Thanks for the video!

12:01 I tried bazzite a bit ago and had to switch off because it gave me audio skipping issues on my Nvidia 4060 ASUS laptop, but the _layout_ of how it functioned and installed was nothing short of beautiful. I love how Ptyxis feels designed for easy distrobox use out of the box. If I could guarantee that audio bug wouldn't happen to anyone else I recommend it to, then it would be an *effortless* recommendation from me. And frankly, when my only complaint with a distro is "I had a few bugs with it (that might be fixed in the future)", that's extremely rare in my experience, because often times if I have a complaint, it's because of the core design of how the distro does stuff, which isn't the case here. Goes in B tier for now, but would be S tier if it was bugfixed a bit. I would switch back instantly if I could do so in a manner where nothing went wrong with it.

The best *stream* machine :D

Does sleep work with the hardware? I tried using ChimeraOS which is another steamOS image on an AMD desktop build. When I recover from sleep any game that was running before runs extremely slow like 5fps.

I've actually been daily driving bazzite for about 5ish months now.. and previously I was just on silverblue, so it was just an 'rpm-ostree rebase' away for me.. I've actually been using silverblue for the past couple years. The beauty of fedora atomic is really being able to flip between base images at will, as well as the stability of course. One of my side projects is to work on forking Bazzite to customize my rpm layers into a base image, although it's broken right now.. When you deviate away from the base image, updates get kinda slow.

For retro gaming / emulation there is also Batocera which offers pretty much everything out of the box in a console-like fashion. Updates are rare but it's very stable considering all the projects it is based on. Thb, while I find these projects cool, I don't use my PC as a console, so I don't see myself using any of them even on external, bootable drives.

Bazzite is really nice. I am still waiting for delta updated, since it takes a while to update from full images for every update. I did try Bazzite on my LCD Steam Deck and it worked alright, but it wasn't perfect. I had a couple desktop apps crash and some other weirdness, but it moves so fast that it could be much better now.

Hello! Greetings from Brazil! Do you recomend this Distro for everyday use? Thank you very much!

thank you for shining a light on Bazzite! I have been using it on an OG steam machine, with an nvidia card and ever with all of those issues.... it is still pretty darn good. works way better than chimeraOS did for me. when i get enough spare parts to build a proper pc (with an AMD vid card), i'll definitely run bazzite on it.

Hell yea! Glad to see you’ve gone immutable🛡️

Hi. What is the PC that Titus is using in the video. I see that is from bee link? What is the model? Anyone know? Tks

I moved to Bazzite on my GPD Win4 after Windows Update broke the gpu drivers for whatever reason. Installing again wouldn't work and a full reinstall did the trick. First time I though it might have been a accident, but when it did that the 2nd time I was like "f this" and imaged with Bazzite. I was a bit afraid because most of my library is on GOG and Epic, but they integrate good to Steam via Heroic. I like on their website you can select the specific hardware you have and it pops up with the proper image out of the door and shows a config video, super user friendly. Never looked back and I am handheld gaming in peace

Honestly, I didn’t know Titus was still making videos!

I daily Bazzite's sibling, Bluefin. It's great as a developer OS and for gaming. Everything works pretty much as expected as it would in Windows - except for those titles that are known not to work. There are still some similar quirks with it as you're seeing in Bazzite. As for Linux gaming - I've been working on some content creators lately on covering Linux more as an alternative for gaming. This is especially for the low budget gamers out there that are going to be up against it when Win 10 is sunset and Win 11 won't be an option. The prevailing opinion is "well, Linux is cool and all; but, you can't play Fortnite and CoD, and those are the only games that really matter to gamers." The reality is that there are way, WAY more games that do work on Linux than those that don't; however, since a few of the more popular titles won't work because the publishers are unwilling to enable support for Wine/Proton on Linux - it's not even considered as an alternative. Personally, I'm not going to stand for it, and will continue to evangelize Linux-based operating systems are solid alternatives to the mainstream - particularly for those with aging hardware that won't be able to move to Windows 11. The days of compromise are over for the Linux desktop, it's ready to be seen as a viable alternative. We just need more people with a larger reach to start showing how good it can be.

Hi, Chris and CTT community. I'm looking for the video about the web - I think- tool that you use for cleaning the audio for your videos. Do you still use it? Or do you recommend anything in particular as of now? Thank you for your excellent material, always!

Nobara ended up being a disaster for me. It somehow ate my Windows bootloader on another SSD. I gave up linux gaming because of that, as well as 144hz refresh rate issues, wayland issues, etc etc etc. This looks like I might go back in

Nobara used to be the go-to gaming distro. I ran it for a bit but for the life of me I couldn't get Palworld to run properly. I'd just crash, or if it did launch, I'd get a lot of graphics artifacting. Proton Tricks was also giving me a lot of trouble. Tried Bazzite, got the C++ dependencies installed, and Palworld now more or less runs like it does on Windows. I need to mess around with it more, as there's still funkiness with Intel Arc cards. But I might have settled on a Windows replacement.

This is great, have an ageing laptop under the TV, mainly for media, but been curious about Linux for some time think it's time to take the plunge.

Any difference to HoloISO & ChimeraOS?

Bluefin is from the same “collective” group, and is geared more towards “productive” tasks. It can also install Steam and does the same Nvidia magic. And you can rebase from Bazzite to Bluefin Aurora is the same as Bluefin but for KDE The stuff it does to make Nvidia “just work”, and does that better than anyone else is the killer feature for me. That is the main thing get makes Steam OS unviable outside of the Deck and whatever future Valve hardware. Also, there is a GUI to set up distro box instances (minimal versions of “normal” Linux installs.) so I have an Ubuntu setup and can install stuff with apt from my “base” terminal window (so no dropping into some other system like WSL…it’s perfectly seamless)

Helldivers 2 runs pretty well on my Arch excluding multiplayer. Works just fine on SteamDeck.

Bazzite is really, reeeally nice. I generally stick to arch forks but bazzite hits that nice out of the box experience with being able to do whatever you want.

Bazzite is a cool project and I want to use this as a HTPC to replace consoles as most of my library is in steam anyway and its something I have been chasing since Windows Media Center! The question becomes if Nvidia is not recommended on it due to some issues then for an AMD system what are the benefits over Chimera OS? Also there is a lot of smoke that the next "XBox" is going to be a pc console hybrid. And MSFT wants to fix their OS for handhelds use. Also there is a lot of chatter about ARM cpus. Exciting times ahead for pc gamers and tech enthusiasts.

I use Bazzite as my daily driver on a Nvidia PC, even though nvidia version doesn't support Game Mode. It's still an awesome, very stable and minimal setup distribution that I would wholeheartedly recommend to everyone, especially people new to Linux.

Hey Chris, how does it compare to the ChimeraOS project in your opinion ?

Interesting distro 👍

Love this. For a long time I’ve wanted to use a PC like a console. Turn it on and choose a game etc. Obvious advantages to a PC over a console is customisation, emulation and backwards compatibility.

What this system is missing, is the keyboard operatable from a gamepad, to enter the commands to the terminal with a joystick

watching this on bazzite

Maybe some day we will have it like that on any distro...

Did Decky Loader break on the latest update with this? Because it did on my steam deck, no game pages would give an error and if you tried to access Decky it fullscreened an error and made me restart it. I had to uninstall Decky, seems something with it breaks with every update but if that's not the case with Bazzite I might try it.

bazzite made me switch from windows to linux on a my gaming pc , it's been a month, and exept VR and a game that i need to tweak HEAAAVILY (and wait an update from the devs cuz proton is being funky) , bazzite made my pc runs MUCH better

So how does this work with discord or trying to pull up RU-vid while gaming? Is this exactly like the steam deck or can I minimize game mode? Pull up RU-vid to like search how to do something in a game?

Any chance at a direct comparison to Nobara Linux? I'm now on the fence between these two distros for a dedicated gaming box.

8:17, Wootilty!! that would be so useful for me cause I have a few Wooting keyboards I use each day and setting them up requires messing with udev rules on Linux, luckily, the wootility download page has step by step guide, but its still an obstacle to new users if they are on Linux

Could this distro be usable as a daily driver for pc? Or is the immutable part too much of a limitation?

What I've done was set up a gaming rig to run an application called "Sunshine" and then just use a streaming client called "Moonlight" on my other devices and just play games like that. I only ever play games at the desktop now when it's something like Quake or some other FPS that requires me to have the highest framerate and least amount of latency, it's really nice.. the latency on it puts Steam's streaming service to shame, Im even using it right now to watch this video on my TV 🤣

How easy is the bazzite to update? Like nvidia driver update amd ryzen driver updates and system/kernel/dependencies/library updates

Thanks!

This is it. This is the OS I want to build a small PC box for, because "a more powerful Steam Deck that sits connected to my TV" is all I want anymore. Damned if I can't figure out what's budget friendly and will do 1080p Ultra AMD-wise nowadays.

Use it as a main I wanna see what compromises there are to the desktop experience (if any).

hi thanks for introduce. im trying to run it on proxmox with deck image but i cant , i can only make it work with the virtual machine iso. but the vm iso has old version of bazzite and i dont know how to install deck on it

Have you tried out cachyos? I tried both nobara and cachyos and I think they are both interesting in their ways

What's going to be really interesting is when the Strix APUs start trickling down to the miniPC makers. These will have 16 RDNA3.5 APUs (up from 12 RDNA3 that the 7840 has), and presumably AMD aren't making such large APUs without addressing the memory bandwidth limitations. A quad-channel Strix box would obviously cost more than a dual-channel 7840, but it's going to be a *much* more powerful device in very much the same form factor.

Can I use this to have a better experience with a docking station

How does this compare to Garuda or ChimeraOS? It also makes me wonder if something based on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed would work better.

Good video!

Is there's an option to stretch image from 16:9 to native 16:10 like on the Steam Deck? It's the most important thing for me, I hate playing with these black bars

i wouldn't want this on my main pc but if i had something like rog ally, i'd def install it and i think that is the point

Oh this is interesting for some reason I thought this was based on a Arch Linux and not fedora like the steam deck. That's why I went with Nobara which is made by Glorious egg roll who works on proton-ge. I am curious to see a comparison between the two. Also just out of curiosity does Bazzite fix the issue in game mode where the mouse stutters and jumps around? The other issue I have found for the steam deck and steam is is that when using the game mode you can not unlock it if you have the pin password unless you use a controller.

It's Final Fantasy 6 was only called FF 3 in the US on Super Nintendo, Pixel remastered Version is the way to go!

What would the difference be between a windows PC running games as always and a PC running this OS?

The only thing holding me back from completely ditching Windows for Fedora is PUBG, not supported on Linux as far as I know.

I haven't had any issues using Proton Experimental layer in Steam for my games. I run any of my purchased games, whether it's for Linux or not, without any issues. Even AAA games like Red Dead Redemption 2. So I don't really see the need for this OS. How does this OS run the Windows games anyway? Doesn't it use Proton too?

This looks very cool indeed.

weird, helldivers 2 has worked on my arch install since day one

Change the VRam to 8GB from the bios. It's not going to double your fps, but some games could benefit greatly from it

I switched to Linux just after Christmas after using a steam deck for 3 months I decided to jump right in and not even keep my windows partition on my boot SSD, opting to wipe the whole thing and start fresh. I chose Kubuntu as it felt similar in layout to windows and it auto installed my driver's for my 3070ti and everything. I tweaked a couple settings but other than that every game I've launched on steam has worked perfectly, some in some cases it's even better than under windows in terms of FPS.

Chris, how do you manage to have the same browser on all machines with all the bookmarks, history etc.?

Ok now i am curious how to remove all desktop environtment stuff and replace it with hyprland

Is it a operating system line mint?

How is this different from Chimera OS?

Does this work for games with EasyAnticheat on them as well? The only thing holding me back from fully switching to a Linux distro as my main OS has been the struggle of running anti cheats on it!

HDR gaming on nvidia, best way to achieve currently? Just switched to Arch cos I figure the firstest jankiest versions will be available, and its kinda true but nothihn right.

I wish i could get a straight answer if linix supports the gaming feature's from the likes kf a 7900XTX frame gen ect.

I’m using POPos and would switch to Bazzite but there are two issues in Bazzite I cannot seem to solve, I play Clone Hero and both Clone Hero and YARG on Bazzite crash on startup. Also I need to install xone in order to use my Rockband 4 guitar but I need DKMS in order to install it but every time I tried to install DMKS it fails. Right now both of these things are working correctly in POPos

I would like to know the minimum and recommended system requirements for hardware. On the developers website this information is hidden somewhere.

Crazy potential