James R Kirk

I’m relatively a Linux newbie and “open app store and click install” couldn’t have been more user friendly to me, so I’m very excited by it all

Bazzite has been the most plug and play distro I’ve ever used!

Bazzite Desktop can boot right into Steam Gaming Mode, you don’t even need to set it up if you download it this way:

Most of my 2025 was Silksong actually, but for only $20 it felt like a patient gamer moment!

Compared to Windows. To be clear I’m just basing that on vibes, and I haven’t done any 1:1 testing, but it’s absolutely not any worse than Windows with everything I’ve tried. But also, even if it was slightly worse, the benefit of almost never needing a mouse/keyboard still would make it worth it.

Looks like this is on their radar at least

Honestly, I like Bazzite because it’s very controller and gaming friendly and you won’t be disappointed with it. That said, for a daily driver workstation computer you might want to try Fedora Kinoite which is very similar but focused towards desktop use.

Also it doesn’t hurt to try both as I said they’re very similar! Would love to hear a follow up on your experience.

I’ve been trying out Bazzite with an Nvidia GPU and performance is slightly better but the overall experience is significantly improved over windows.