Bazzite

Reader supplied reviews for Bazzite Average rating 8.5 from 60 review(s) What are your thoughts on Bazzite? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 44.2026080243.2026042042.2025101941.20250409 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 44.20260802 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-09-01 Country: Pakistan Votes: 0 Bazzite is probably the best introduction to Linux for beginners, intermediate users and even experts. It's immutable so It's hard to break. It comes pre-packaged with everything you'd need for gaming. Optionally a bunch of stuff like Davinci Resolve, Lossless Scaling etc are available as Ujust commands or simple button presses in Bazzite portal. After trying a bunch of different Linux Distributions across many years (as a veteran windows user), Bazzite is the only one that has truly kept me in. I have completely switched off of Windows now and use Linux for gaming, watching my media, working for my job and Bazzite is the only reason this has been possible. My final thoughts are that if you're primarily a gamer, this distro is perfect for you. If you're someone who uses their PC for work, it's perfectly practical too despite it's immutable nature. You cannot just install something from rpm, but you can create a container that contains all of your development tools and write, build, debug your projects in the container. This is what I personally do and it's a flawless experience. It also has a bonus separation of concerns cause the core system is unaffected by whatever you do or install in the containers. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 44.20260605 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-07-14 Country: Norway Votes: 11 After having tried 20-30 distros I came to Bazzite. I have no interest in gaming, so I never looked at it, but after seeing Bazzite being reviewed on YouTube, I had to take a look nonetheless. This is one of the best Linux distroe out there, at least among the ones I have tried. Super fast and everything just works. Mint is perhaps the better option in the long run, due to Debian and it's a bit more easy going with updates (seldom any need for reboots). Mint or Bazzite, that's the question. They are pretty much equal regarding "distro-stuff", and both are at the top. Obviously they are tuned towards to different use cases. Mint being tunes for desktop usage for work and at home, while Bazzite is tuned for gaming. It's just that Bazzite it very good for general desktop usage as well (I have installed the desktop flavor of Bazzite). I ended up with both Mint and Bazzite. I will for sure use Mint most of the time, mostly due to Debian, but Bazzite can be used just as well for the stuff I'm using it for. It's a matter of taste mostly. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 44.20260605 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-07-03 Country: Germany Votes: 4 Currently trying some distros but I am linux noob (30 years windows)... Pros: I like the idea of a immutable system (because noob). Installation was quick and easy - except for the wrong auto-selected keyboard layout. Looks and feels nice at fist glance - especially the gnome version. Cons: Basic things do not work, for example simple opening of media files from my mounted home server. On bazzite gnome the images/photos work but videos do not play. On bazzite KDE it is the opposite: the videos play but the image viewer does not show anything. Tested some solutions from web but nothing helps. Looks like in each build on of the bundled media apps is wrong configured. Bazzite uses the newest beta Nvidia driver which is not stable. Opening apps feels slightly delayed. Also a complaint from my wife: grub bootloader is ugly and not user friendly. Conclusion: feels unfinished and not enough to lure a windows user away. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 60 reader reviews of Bazzite...