Thoughts on Bazzite after about a Month

From a Reddit

I’m only about a month in, so take with a pinch of “honeymoon period” salt, but there have been no real issues. I was very pleasantly surprised with just how easily everything worked. Unopinionated AMD boi here tho, 6700xt doing the heavy lifting, Ryzen 5 5600x sat around wondering what to do with the other half of its cores most of the time.

For background I spose, mostly a mac guy, offered up a sacrificial laptop to the Linux gods a few months ago for tinkering with (and nuked many a distro since, so it goes). Heard rumours of the mythical “turn it on and play games” OS for a while. My brother took the plunge first (a few weeks before I did) but he hadn’t ran into any dealbreakers, so here we are.

Like others have said, there may be issues with more specialised software, but I only ever booted into windows for games, and had one too many rounds of futzing around with updates and actually broken shit for 45 minutes before I could get to actually playing.

Destiny not being an option did elicit a little sigh, a shrug, and an “oh well”. I’ve been way out of the fomo loop on that for years anyway, but did like dipping in now and then to see how they’d massacred my boy.

I didn’t do extensive before/after testing, but frame rates are about the same. “About 60” in Cyberpunk, and loads more but plenty in everything else I play.

Getting RDR2 (I only own the Rockstar/RSC version) was a bit of a palaver, but the launcher sits in steam now, ready n waiting.

I did enjoy the customisation options KDE gives ya, and spent about an hour while games were reinstalling ruining the clean aesthetic of the default with Daemon. Another upside was being able to convince my Bluetooth keyboard that it’s connecting to the same machine whether I’m in bazzite or macOS. So yea, my other boot drive is a mac, so that’s a whole thing. I wonder what the Venn diagram of hackintosh+bazzite users is like?

12/10, would recommend if there’s no mission critical software (including games) that flat out don’t work on Linux (yet, question?). But that could be what dual booting is for, I suppose.