Bazzite Linux 44 lands for desktop gamers and it's a big release

Plasmalogin is really nice. Finally I can see the characters I'm typing to log in 😄

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.

> 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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thank you everybody for the great input! I'll give it a closer look then, especially for the kids laptops and see how it goes. My Main has an NVIDIA Card, so this (together with my addiction of the AUR) might be keeping me on Endeavour.
Isn't that a great time to live in - so many excellent choices for your digital life!

"brew package" / "brew installer" - this sounds like something diverging from Fedora. Is that akin to something like "homebrew" on macOS?

Hi,

is HHD removed?

For Zotac Zone there are better options.

Quoting: Phlebiac"brew package" / "brew installer" - this sounds like something diverging from Fedora. Is that akin to something like "homebrew" on macOS?

It's the same project as the Mac version. Well, technically the Linux version was originally forked from the Mac version back in 2012 and was called "Linuxbrew". But it didn't really gain any popularity, until around 2019 when it was merged back into the main project. And then in 2021 the brew experience became a lot more streamlined and faster, with version 3.0.

Brew (which is the actual command used btw) isn't diverging from Fedora, it's just an alternate way to get packages independently of your main OS - basically you can get most apps - without root access - and without needing to write to a core system path. All the files live inside your home folder. This makes it ideal for immutable distros, because you can't write to the root partition.

Before brew, Bazzite used to pitch Nix for the same purpose (of course, in addition to Flatpak, Distrobox etc). I don't know what happened along the way (maybe it was all the drama in the Nix community) but they eventually stopped recommending Nix completely, and started baking in Brew into the image and recommended users to switch to Brew instead.

Last edited by d3Xt3r on 30 Apr 2026 at 8:39 am UTC

Quoting: Juergi_HodiHi,

is HHD removed?

Yes, they removed it a while back and replaced it with InputPlumber.

New brew installer for Sunshine via ujust. Sunshine is no longer preinstalled in-image.

Wow this could be a breakage for me at the wrong time. I sometimes remote to my desktop and when I do so I don't have physical access, plus Bazzite updates automatically applying changes on reboot and I use Wake on Lan to turn the desktop on remotely.

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.

Very easy to use, (almost*) no nonsense distribution if you aren't a power user / developer. If you *are* one then it gives you specific tools to get the job done so there is an adaptation process coming from non atomic distros.

* a developer added drivers for fan control on my desktop, then removed it due to safety concerns then the dev was dismissed by the team and I still don't have fan control lol

I really want to give it try in virtualbox but the live iso (kde) will not boot so I gave up on it. I prefer Manjaro anyway which is as powerful but much easier of use.

Whatever nitpicks I've had over the choice of applications, I've been using Bazzite since 2024 and have found it to be an excellent distribution. It was easy to set up, and has been very stable. An immutable distro is not for everyone, but for me it's ideal.