Bazzite is a SteamOS Clone That Supports Gaming PCs and the Steam Deck
Bazzite is a SteamOS Clone That Supports Gaming PCs and the Steam Deck
PC gamers can now experience Linux gaming the way Valve intended it to be
Bazzite isn't an exact clone of SteamOS 3, but its functionality is virtually identical to Valve's operating system. On the surface, Bazzite features an identical desktop experience to SteamOS 3. Thanks to the integration of KDE Plasma — a customizable Linux desktop environment, and Valve's KDE themes from SteamOS, Bazzite shares the same desktop wallpapers, icons, and taskbar as Valve's operating system. If you didn't know any better, you'd think you were running the real SteamOS.
But under the hood, Bazzite's actual operating system is not the same, as it uses an entirely different Linux distro from Valve's operating system. Instead of using a branch of Arch Linux, which is the distro SteamOS 3 is based on, Bazzite is built using a custom version of Fedora 38, which incorporates more hardware and device support than SteamOS 3. Some of the hardware support includes baked-in proprietary Nvidia driver support for GeForce GPUs, to enable GeForce-powered systems to run Bazzite. (Sadly AMD support is unclear — but the OS does support AMD ROCm.)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Valve's Steam Deck-focused SteamOS 3 operating system might be one of the best Linux operating systems designed for gaming; however, Valve has yet to release an official desktop version of the OS that is suitable for PC gamers.
To remedy the issue, the Linux community has created a custom clone of SteamOS 3 called Bazzite that supports gaming PC hardware right out of the box — making Valve's SteamOS desktop experience accessible to Linux gamers.
Bazzite isn't an exact clone of SteamOS 3, but its functionality is virtually identical to Valve's operating system.
Thanks to the integration of KDE Plasma — a customizable Linux desktop environment, and Valve's KDE themes from SteamOS, Bazzite shares the same desktop wallpapers, icons, and taskbar as Valve's operating system.
Even though Steam and Valve's Proton compatibility layer is already functional on Fedora 38, having a backup system that can run games through Arch Linux is good to have.
Bazzite is arguably one of the best efforts to get SteamOS 3's desktop experience running on anything other than the Steam Deck.
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1Looks promising , take a look at it.
1fair play to them.
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