Custom Linux Distribution just for Gaming

Just to clear some misunderstandings, TLE did a performance test on this distro and it was pretty much the same in terms of FPS as other distros. Gaming distros like Bazzite are made for a faster and easier setup process because gaming tools and stores and preinstalled.

I've been using bazzite for over 6 months now, I have it on three of my devices at the current moment in time, and I would never look back to Windows at this point, shit just works.

As someone who has done a lot of distro hopping in the past, I've found that going for a stable release that is widely used as a daily driver is superior for gaming than "gaming specific" linux distros, largely on the basis that the gaming distros have routinely had buggy UIs, driver issues, and a variety of unexpected and undesired behavioral problems tied to the array of "gaming adjacent" software installed, most of which you can install yourself with little to no effort and most of which you probably don't want or need in the first place.

This is the first and only distro I’ve tried that has display link drivers already installed. Was able to plug my laptop into my work dock and immediately have it all work. I used to have to install a community version of the displaying driver for my Ubuntu and Debian based distros. Shit just works the first time.

Jorge, Kyle and the others over at ublue is doing a great job with their Fedora spins.

I run Bazzite on all my computers and if you got a full AMD system you can even get full gamemode running by installing the deck image. This in turn give you the best controller experience for games, as Desktop Steam got several issues with Steam Input valve have not fixed yet.

But not all credit should go to them for this but also ChimeraOS team, Nobara and others that are constantly working on an improved gaming experience on Linux.

When developing RetroDECK Steam Input profiles I mainly use the Steam Deck with SteamOS and Bazzite on my desktop to test them.

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That seems to be a great distro to follow

How good is the "HDR Support"? It's one thing I've really wanted for Linux for a while.

I tried it. Gave up and moved to regular fedora at the end. I didn't see any real benefits personally

I did like many of the ideas, like gamescope is built in. But I think I had minor issues

Linux veteran here. I use Bazzite on my gaming PC and ROG Ally. Once I figured out the quirks of an immutable distro and started using distroboxes it became an amazing experience. No complaints here.

How much different is setting up immutable distros like Bazzite? I like the concept but I've been too intimidated to try it out.

I've been rocking it for a couple weeks now. So far it's been great

I have been using the hell out of bazzite for the last few weeks and I've really enjoyed it. There have been a couple of minor bugs but otherwise everything just generally works.

I've enjoyed it so much that I've also installed bluefin on my work laptop.

the idea of a console like layout ( Ui ) Out of the box ( if you so choose ) is awesome..

but that installer 😮‍💨

Anyone able to give an ELI5 to a linux noob? I'm struggling to find what the benefit is of Fedora's atomic builds (is it just containerised apps? Is this an immutable distro?)....and then also what the benefit of Bazzite is on top of Fedora's atomic spins?

Are immutable distros good for daily driving?

Has someone tried Steam VR with an Index on Bazzite? How well does it run?

I tried some setups with Steam VR, as Steam inside Flatpak is not supported and not working, but even when installed via deb it can require some restarts and be janky.

hmm, may check this out tho I've already made mint work to pretty well for gaming

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Immutable distro...yeah I'm good.

Nah, that's a preconfigured distro.