Over the last three years, Bazzite has established itself as the best entry point for Windows gamers in their journey to Linux. An appliance OS that is foolproof, ready to game out of the box, and features the latest drivers. With Windows 10 becoming EOL, this is more relevant than ever.

This talk begins with a high-level overview of Bazzite. On desktop, a Fedora base for the latest packages (e.g., KDE), bootc for delivery, and a focus on Flatpaks. For handhelds, we have the gamescope compositor and our custom overlay, Handheld Daemon.

Then we delve a bit deeper on what makes Bazzite popular: integration speed and hundreds of custom fixes, both in kernel and userspace (e.g., gamescope), that we are slowly upstreaming. And with a new legacy image, that’s ready to accept Windows 10 users with old Nvidia cards, as Nvidia begins to limit support for those to their LTS driver.

Topics - What is Bazzite? - Impacts of Bazzite - Handheld Hardware Support - Upstream Contributions - Lessons Learned from Bazzite - Future Plans for the Project

Links: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite https://bazzite.gg https://github.com/bazzite-org https://github.com/hhd-dev/hhd/