Bazzite Linux 44 has landed now that Fedora 44 has been released, and with it plenty of nice changes for gamers wanting a good Linux distribution.
Currently, only the desktop edition appears to have been fully released so if you're on handhelds you'll have an extra wait. Writing in an official announcement Bazzite founder Kyle Gospodnetich mentioned: "For our deck users, we will be opening Bazzite 44 builds for deck in testing in the near future. We are slow-rolling this update due to the nature and amount of changes present in it to ensure that the vast majority of our existing users have a good experience. We’ll update you on our progress in the coming weeks and look forward to testing it with you!"
What's new in Bazzite 44:
- KDE Plasma 6.6 w/ new Plasma Login Manager
- GNOME 50
- OGC Kernel 6.19.x, with 7.0 coming in the near future. (Yes, we will include the Valve VRAM patchset with 7.0)
- Mesa 26.0.5
- Bazaar 0.7.15
- Ptyxis has been dropped from our KDE images, and the new Konsole terminal is available with container support.
- SBOMs (Which now power our changelogs), Build Attestation, OpenSSF security scanning, and signed ISOs.
- Built in support for Elgato 4K capture cards
- Images reduced by 1GB thanks to moving in-image QEMU and ROCM to Bazzite-DX for users who need them
- Access to the latest and greatest ASUS Linux patches for use with ASUSCtl (A brew package for this is being explored to make it even easier)
- New brew installer for Sunshine via ujust. Sunshine is no longer preinstalled in-image.
Bazzite is my top recommendation for gaming handhelds and TV PCs, as it makes a lot of the setup really simple. It stays out of the way and gets you gaming quickly - exactly what you want.
I have it on my Lenovo Legion Go (1st generation) and it has overall been an excellent SteamOS-like experience. Don't really have anything bad to say about it, everything just works smoothly and I've put many hours gaming into it thanks to Bazzite.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Plasmalogin is really nice. Finally I can see the characters I'm typing to log in 😄
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How is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.
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> Ptyxis has been dropped from our KDE images, and the new Konsole terminal is available with container support.
Hallelujah! This is the one change I'm looking forward to the most. I always disliked Ptyxis and Bazzite's bizzare decision to drop Konsole in favor of it. Ptyxis looked so out-of-place on KDE.
Now do Bazaar next please. We don't need no GTK apps on KDE.
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Hallelujah! This is the one change I'm looking forward to the most. I always disliked Ptyxis and Bazzite's bizzare decision to drop Konsole in favor of it. Ptyxis looked so out-of-place on KDE.
Now do Bazaar next please. We don't need no GTK apps on KDE.
Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.I've been using Bazzite as a daily-driver on my ThinkPad for ~3 years and it's been rock solid. Literally zero issues. Been using it for both work and gaming. AMA.
Last edited by d3Xt3r on 29 Apr 2026 at 12:42 pm UTC
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Quoting: d3Xt3rNow do Bazaar next please. We don't need no GTK apps on KDE.What application would you want to replace it? Discover exists, but I feel its far more buggy when handling flatpaks compared to Bazaar.
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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.Absolutely fantastic. I regret putting Ubuntu on anything else in my home. I'm heavily into containers, k8s, etc for work though so I'm already used to just doing everything in things like distrobox. There have been instances where something doesn't work, but you run update, restart and its all good again.
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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.Bazzite is an *excellent* daily driver, far better than anything else. I've had it for a year and a half, with zero issues! Meanwhile with Ubuntu something was always broken and I had to fix things constantly. Bazzite worked better from day one, it's absolutely amazing and it's unbreakable.
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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.I have Bazzite on my Ally, Nvidia 1660 gaming laptop, and all AMD Desktop since August last year and it's all super smooth. I count myself lucky though as the hardware always worked great under Linux. I previously used Ubuntu on everything, but the 25.10 upgrade was such a catastrophe and left my PC unusable that I dropped it in favor of Bazzite, and never looked back. I mostly do gaming, web browsing, and some light development stuff.
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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.After moving to Bazzite full time last year I have put it on 5 different PCs in my house from mini PCs to full gaming desktops and have had few issues, none of them unsolvable. Having tried everything from Arch to Ubuntu in the past this has been one of the least frustrating OSs and the one that has felt most seamless. Gaming mode and Desktop mode have both worked well and the ease of rebasing between them is great.
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PlayingOnLinuxphone 3 hours ago
If I would own a handheld, Bazzite would be the way to go. But my desktop? Never ever. The immutable goes to much into my way. I realized it when I tried to introduce a friend in "how to use CLI" (to protect him from his own blind copy-from-internet actions). Even basic things become a nightmare. It is just not the right distro for me, but I recommend it to some potential new Linux users.
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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite?I unfortunately have an Nvidia graphics card, which means that my KDE taskbar has a chance to break if you interact with it more than once. Also, sometimes the lock screen freezes upon waking from sleep (but you could still type in your password and the system will unlock fine), which is somehow an improvement compared to when it only showed a black screen and the only solution was a restart.
I'm aware that this is a KDE issues not a Bazzite one, but it still sucks.
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