Hey there, I'm the founder of Bazzite. Just wanted to confirm that we have no interest in VC funding. It says it's cloud native because it's cloud native, not because we're marketing to people with too much money and a lack of sense.

To harm a competitors stock prices more than they are paying out

All of that coping and seething Toyota's CEO has been doing about electric cars sure does look stupid right now.

The real question we need to be asking ourselves is do games need to be long or do they need to be good?

The answer is they need to be good, which is exactly why I won't be touching this piece of shit.

Bazzite founder here. I started Bazzite after spending a few months helping with support on the steam deck Discord because I had already been using atomic fedora and knew the proper workarounds for people who wanted to install applications on a read-only distro like SteamOS.

Bazzite was initially an experiment to see what it would take to get SteamOS packages working in Fedora Atomic, because I knew Fedora Atomic provided a better experience for installing applications that had to be a part of the root system than SteamOS could.

Unlike SteamOS you can layer applications over the root system and they will be kept across updates instead of being removed entirely. You're also able to spin off custom images with any changes you want through a GitHub action. You have full access to the roof file system during the build process.

I read the complaints and I lost all respect. I will not be spending another cent with that company, nor will I attend any of his future talks.

Yes, it's designed to be as easy as possible to manage and exceedingly difficult to break in a permanent way.

It's also turnkey in comparison to Windows, in the sense that you already have all of your hardware drivers and have Steam installed right from the get-go.

I am very ashamed that I own a single wolfire title.

We're aware of it, it's just complicated and directly related to kernel differences between Valve's heavily modified 6.1 and Fedora's 6.6/soon to be 6.7

This release lays the groundwork since it's the first one with a fully custom kernel. In addition updates will be coming faster for the foreseeable future. A lot was held back due to us working on maintaining secure boot support when switching kernels.

Preview of the next release, need to fix an issue with Xbox controller detection and then we'll add it to the Bazzite Portal for anyone to easily use.

And yes, the SteamOS keyboard works!

SteamOS is more locked down, the root is read only and there's no layering system so every update completely undoes any changes you might have forced on the root partitions by disabling read only mode.

Thanks Jorge. Just confirming that this is the single most complete reply. I couldn't have asked for a better explanation.

At this point when people tell me the website runs like shit I just laugh and tell them they've been filtered. That does 120 FPS on a phone, if you're lagging on that site just go ahead and give up on gaming.

Only missing feature compared to SteamOS 3.6 is HDR, we're waiting for Fedora to land it in stable rather than port all of that from SteamOS.

And then of course there's a ton of features we add that SteamOS doesn't have. We build from stable Fedora and keep our patches minimal so the intent is for Bazzite to be as stable.

It currently breaks Firefox, but they're working on it.

Our documentation guy cooked so hard he got burnt out, please read them they're excellent.

Bazzite is popular precisely because we ignore bad opinions such as these. Flathub is mainstream and all the whinging in the world isn't going to change that.

The main difference, and what got me to start this project, is that you can layer on packages. This means no more dealing with disabling read-only and losing your changes every time you update.

Besides that, this incorporates a huge number of community made features such as SDGyroDSU and Discover Overlay OOTB, a newer kernel than even SteamOS 3.6, DisplayLink support, Nvidia support (on desktop), and so on.

It's essentially become an immutable/atomic gaming spin on Fedora, with full support for the deck.

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If you need RPM Firefox, my recommendation is that you install it with Distrobox. This also solves the security issue that we remove upstream Firefox over - update frequency.

You don't want Firefox to only update when your operating system image does. As far as I'm concerned the bug preventing Firefox from being re-added is a feature.