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Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

26 mentions on Hacker News by 24 people: 4 stories, 22 comments · first 2023-09-11 · latest 2026-03-20

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  1. …defaults, e.g. pop os: https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/blob/master_noble... Bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/system_files/d...
    comment by deno · 2026-03-20 · in Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
  2. …the Github action (or locally). Very similar to how Universal Blue, Bazzite, Bluefin etc. build at https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite (see their Containerfile), but for mobile. Has a similar mission to https://postmarketos.org , but with…
    comment by nikodunk · 2026-02-15 · in Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices
  3. Looking at the contributor analytics: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/graphs/contributors Doesn't look like he was, but then looking at the actual commit list: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/commits/main/?before=e49... He…
    comment by _lvbh · 2026-02-11 · in Bazzite Post-Mortem
  4. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/commits/main/?after=e49f...
    comment by jovial_cavalier · 2026-02-10 · in Bazzite Post-Mortem
  5. …that they're providing gaming specific setup (like Nvidia drivers). It's mostly a Fedora system. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
    comment by plagiarist · 2026-02-10 · in Bazzite Post-Mortem
  6. …they will see the price of this smoothness and it will turn into another Ventoy-style drama[3]. [1] https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/ad5704b87388fbde7e3... [2] https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/0... [3]…
    comment by Lockal · 2025-12-03 · in Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
  7. Press "y" before linking to a Github file/line to ensure it stays accurate https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/5e8f61a56ca3da02778...
    comment by thegeekpirate · 2025-11-30 · in Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
  8. Fork and remove this line: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile#... Note that we remove rpm Firefox for security reasons. You do not want your browser to only update with your entire operating system.
    comment by KyleGospo · 2025-11-30 · in Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
  9. …Bazzite seems to be just a big Dockerfile built on top of bootc and bootc image builder right? https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
    comment by tuananh · 2025-07-05 · in Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
  10. …theoretical exploit in a future release of package is not going to exist in this immutable release https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/42.20250417
    comment by moondev · 2025-04-20 · in The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
  11. …risk. Curious if anyone else shares my concern or if I should just put my tinfoil hat back on... 1. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile 2. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/42.20250417
    comment by kayson · 2025-04-20 · in The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
  12. …of the Steam Deck's Arch) with all the possible Nvidia, AMD, and other gaming enhancements enabled https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/
    comment by haunter · 2024-08-03 · in Manjaro Immutable out now for community testing
  13. …or Fedora Silverblue (Gnome) rpm-ostree Linux distributions; ublue-os/bazzite//Containerfile : https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile#... has, in addition to fan and power controls, automatic updates on desktop,…
    comment by westurner · 2024-02-14 · in AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source
  14. I've only used NixOS, but the Containerfile looks more like a shell script than a Nix config: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
    comment by bsimpson · 2024-02-09 · in Fedora Atomic Desktops
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    Bazzite OS 2.2
    story by haunter · 2024-01-23 · 0 comments
  16. …Bazzite link 404s, but there is info at https://universal-blue.org/blog/2023/11/08/bazzite-20/ and https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite . Seems mostly focused on SteamDeck.
    comment by mkl · 2024-01-15 · in Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux
  17. …containers; for specifying a general purpose, desktop container, it seems unsustainable [0] https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
    comment by arrakeen · 2024-01-08 · in Ask HN: What alternatives exist to a Mac mini but for Windows?
  18. …audible if it's permanently loaded up but that's like many of the knockoff NUC or litre PCs. 0: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/
    comment by blutack · 2024-01-08 · in Ask HN: What alternatives exist to a Mac mini but for Windows?
  19. …very popular recent submission, for another example. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828040 https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite The maintenance style here looks difficult. They seem to somehow take chunks of new chromium releases…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-01-03 · in Thorium – Radioactive Chromium Fork
  20. …from Open Container Initiative: https://opencontainers.org/ Here is Containerfile from the repo: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
    comment by mkotowski · 2024-01-01 · in Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
  21. …images have more Flatpaks preinstalled than the KDE Plasma images currently. KDE image Flatpaks: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/system_files/d... vs. GNOME image Flatpaks: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/system_…
    comment by nicknamename · 2024-01-01 · in Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
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    Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs
    story by goncalossilva · 2023-12-31 · 108 comments
  23. …SteamOS-like for desktop computers, living room home theater PCs, and numerous other handheld PCs. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/ Worth visiting the readme even if not interested. There's a huge list of included stuff, and a lot of…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-12-31 · in I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
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    Bazzite: An alternative operating system for Steam Deck, Desktops, Handhelds
    story by freedomben · 2023-12-14 · 0 comments
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    Bazzite: Run Steam in an Isolated Container
    story by gigatexal · 2023-10-17 · 0 comments
  26. Once Ubuntu breaks: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/ It's a gaming distro built on top of Fedora Silverblue, making it stable as heck while having up-to-date official steam, and other goodies. Works on Deck too, if you want that.
    comment by FireInsight · 2023-09-11 · in Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users