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Bazzite

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Unofficial community for Universal Blue’s Bazzite image.

Documentation: https://docs.bazzite.gg/

Official forum: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/

Universal Blue on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@UniversalBlue

Source code: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/

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PSA: Bazzite isn't going anywhere (www.reddit.com)
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[–] TheCreeperFace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hi all,

I've been getting asked this a lot so I just wanted to drop a pin to help squash any speculation here.

The Bazzite team is extremely excited for the upcoming expanded launch of Steam OS. Obviously, none of us would be here if not for Valve lighting the way. That being said, we strongly believe Bazzite has a continued role to fill in a post-Steam OS future. A desktop release of Steam OS appears to still be a long way away, and handheld support is almost surely going to be focused on partnered devices first and foremost, and not on the breadth of devices we support today.

Additionally, the first builds of Bazzite were designed for the Steam Deck, which of course runs Steam OS. Bazzite was born out of supporting users with Steam OS in the Steam Deck Discord, and is designed to make up for some of the shortcomings of Steam OS, such as immutability preventing package installs when needed, lack of printing, lack of secure boot, lack of drive encryption, and so on. We also ship a number of helpers and extra packages to make non-Steam gaming easier and faster to get up and running, and are in a position to more quickly work with the community on improvements -- all of which will continue to differentiate us.

It's also important to note that Bazzite is a project and a delivery mechanism, not a product. Developers and users alike can fork, contribute to, and expand Bazzite. This is what makes us Cloud Native and what we're trying to push for the Linux desktop.

We will continue to build Bazzite out long into the future. Thank you.

PS: If you missed it, we did an impromptu AMA in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1hvxtzs/who_does_it_and_why/

Feel free to ask more questions if you like, we'll try to get to them all.

copied the post from the reddit link. I'm planing on switching to it in a couple of day so it better not go anywhere

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com -1 points 2 months ago

Thanks for all your hard work! I have it on a laptop, and it's been perfect.

Also, I'm wondering if SteamOS for the desktop will still be the A/B format, like on the Deck. If so, I imagine there will be people who aren't thrilled about how they have decided to do immutability.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org -1 points 2 months ago

Please don't link to platforms that aren't publicly visible.

[–] sudoku@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago

I tried Bazzite on the Deck hoping that it would be SteamOS but without the immutability. The experience was horrible, with "gamemode" equivalent being quite broken. This was Bazzite 3.0, I really hope they are doing better now.