We recently had the exciting news that Valve plans to expand SteamOS onto more devices, starting with supporting more handhelds, which caused plenty of people to be curious about the future of the popular SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux.
Not gonna lie, I support both
SteamOS provides a “plug and play” almost windows-like experience for end users. It isn’t technical, which makes perfect for the average “I just wanna game and sometimes do other stuff like YouTube”
While Bazzite actually gives you more flexibility for when you still do Gaming but focuses on other stuff(eg. Coding, GameDev, work stuff, etc)
Bazzite fills in a important gap that SteamOS leaves behind and, actually benefits SteamOS for not needing to cover that spot
Bazzite is what got me started on fedora and so so far so good on 3 gaming machines. Using kinoite on a thin client to run Kodi for TV viewing
I’ve about had enough of mint on the gaming laptop and am obviously considering slapping bazzite on that one also, but nix or endeavour sound like pro-style shit, so I’m also considering them!
Honestly became obsessed with NixOS last year and haven’t turned back, I’m not much into the gaming side of things these days but installing steam and running a few games has never been easier.
There is Mint Debian Edition if you’re interested. Lacks some of the homegrown tools of the main edition last I checked, but it’s there for those who want it.
I don’t even care that it’s Fedora. If I wanted to confine my-self to Steam’s supported hardware, I would buy another console. Bazzite does what Steam should have been doing, and better at that.
Wild that people are concerned when Bazzite has a completely different underlying toolset vs SteamOS.
Want arch? SteamOS Want fedora? Bazzite
Tbh Bazzite has an important role going forward: pointing out any bad decisions by valve and offering an off-ramp if valve enshittifies.
Not gonna lie, I support both SteamOS provides a “plug and play” almost windows-like experience for end users. It isn’t technical, which makes perfect for the average “I just wanna game and sometimes do other stuff like YouTube”
While Bazzite actually gives you more flexibility for when you still do Gaming but focuses on other stuff(eg. Coding, GameDev, work stuff, etc) Bazzite fills in a important gap that SteamOS leaves behind and, actually benefits SteamOS for not needing to cover that spot
Bazzite is what got me started on fedora and so so far so good on 3 gaming machines. Using kinoite on a thin client to run Kodi for TV viewing
I’ve about had enough of mint on the gaming laptop and am obviously considering slapping bazzite on that one also, but nix or endeavour sound like pro-style shit, so I’m also considering them!
Nix is a scary place…
Join us.
Honestly became obsessed with NixOS last year and haven’t turned back, I’m not much into the gaming side of things these days but installing steam and running a few games has never been easier.
I’m on endeavour for my devices, def a solid option!
I like what the mint team does on their end but I’m over Ubuntu. If mint shifts their base to debian I’ll consider it again.
There is Mint Debian Edition if you’re interested. Lacks some of the homegrown tools of the main edition last I checked, but it’s there for those who want it.
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Absolutely, it’s a good move. I’ve been recommending that to friends who are hesitant to branch out of Debian and are over Ubuntu.
I’m hoping mint eventually makes LMDE their default. Tho until then, even just a baseline install of Debian is easy enough these days.
https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
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I don’t even care that it’s Fedora. If I wanted to confine my-self to Steam’s supported hardware, I would buy another console. Bazzite does what Steam should have been doing, and better at that.