Play your favorite games
Own games outside of Steam? Lutris (Pre-installed) and other launchers can not only run games from most game stores, but cleanly integrate them into Steam Gaming Mode, including: Xbox Game Pass (via battle.net), EA App, Epic Games Store, GOG.com, itch.io, Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect, your dad's old CDs, and more!
Want to protect your games and your ability to play them? Check out Stop Killing Games for information on how to help.
On all your favorite devices
Take your game library anywhere
Your MicroSD card game library can be shared between multiple Bazzite installs no matter which devices you're using.
UpgradeRollback fearlessly
Bazzite is image based, meaning that after every update the previous version of the operating system is retained on your machine. Should an update cause any issues, you can select the previous image at boot time.
Images of the operating system are retained in our repositories for ninety days and can be switched to via the terminal. Nvidia driver update broke something you needed? No worries, rebase to the last known good release and pin it so that it's retained as long as needed.
Secure by design
Experience enterprise class security with out-of-the-box SELinux, Secure Boot support, signed container images with SBOMs and attested build provenance, and LUKS full disk encryption with optional automatic TPM unlocking.Flathub provides attestation, sandboxing, and the most officially verified applications of any Linux application repository.
Work with your hardware, not for it
Bazzite focuses on hardware compatibility out of the box, with full support for accelerated video encoding and decoding, built in Nvidia drivers, additional HID drivers, and just about every udev rule you could need.
Let your operating system work with your hardware so you don't have to.
Use your favorite desktop environmenthandheld experiencecouch gaming setup
The latest and greatest by the KDE community built from Fedora Kinoite. KDE offers a highly customizable and modern UI that Windows users would find right at home, with a bottom taskbar, start menu, and widgets. Valve's themes and customizations present in SteamOS come pre-installed.
A modern and beautiful desktop by the GNOME Foundation built from Fedora Silverblue. Optimized for touch input, this desktop environment feels right at home on handhelds and tablets, with rounded corners and thoughtful design choices that would make even a die-hard Apple user blush. We provide a lightly customized GNOME experience with tweaks that can easily be undone if desired.
From your handheld to your home theater PC, Steam Gaming Mode offers the premier console-like experience, and can be extended with community-developed plugins and themes thanks to Decky Loader.
Waydroid brings the Android apps and games you love to Bazzite, working side by side with your other Linux applications. Visit our Waydroid setup guide for more information.
Run your favorite applicationscontainerseverything
Bazzite utilizes the Bazaar app store, allowing for easy installation and management of all your favorite applications from Flathub and a curated list of apps we think you'll love.
Additionally, Bazzite brings Brew and the tools and techniques created by the cloud native community to your desktop. Built in container support means packages for any Linux distribution can be installed and used as if they were native applications. Included container-aware terminals and DistroShelf provide first-class access to your Distrobox containers, letting you focus on what matters - your software.
Running a game, a development environment, a container for your Jellyfin server, or a utility only available on the Arch User Repository? You can rest assured it works here. Bazzite is developed on Bazzite.
Join the community
Documentation
Looking for support? View our documentation site for up-to-date guides on installation, general use, game setup, and troubleshooting.
Discord 
Join our Discord for game nights, live community support, and discussion about games and the project.
Discourse
Join our Discourse for asynchronous discussion of Bazzite, and newsletters covering newly added features.
Join our subreddit for community discussions, news updates, announcements, showcases, and more.
Become a Supporter
Support the continued development of Bazzite by sponsoring us on Open Collective! Your support helps cover hosting and hardware expenses, as well as travel for our team to present, collaborate, and engage with the broader Linux community.
Contribute
Assist in Bazzite's development by contributing code, reporting bugs, or making feature requests. You can also sponsor individual contributors if you'd like to contribute monetarily.
Press & Testimonials
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[...] if I already owned an Asus ROG Ally X, or regular Ally, or the Lenovo Legion Go, I would absolutely install Bazzite on it right away, perhaps using a dual-boot configuration to make sure I can easily swap back. You might be surprised by how little you’ll miss Windows. You might be surprised by just how much better the portable experience can get.
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We believe that 2025 is truly the year of the Linux Gaming Desktop. Yeah, might be. Decades coming. For gaming on Linux Bazzite's awesome [...]
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Since I installed Bazzite, I have not had to mess with drivers, hook up to a monitor and keyboard for desktop mode, or do anything other than play games.
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Other people may recommend Bazzite strictly on principle, as cheerleaders of Linux and open source. I'm recommending Bazzite because it's objectively better than Windows for [the ROG Ally], and delivers a true handheld gaming experience.
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PC gamers can now experience Linux gaming the way Valve intended it to be
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While Bazzite is branded as a gaming distro—and is known as a pretty solid alternative OS for the Steam Deck, something I still need to test—it is also a very capable GNOME-based desktop experience, one where many of the hardware and software headaches are solved for you by the time you plug it in.
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[...] based on the test results we’re seeing, you’d be mad if you didn’t choose to take the red pill and breathe new life into your machine by turning it into a vastly more powerful Steam Deck.
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Universal Blue has done its homework. Considering it's a non-official Steam OS it works surprisingly well and is fairly easy to install and set up.
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Many users have reported better battery life and gaming performance with Bazzite over Windows - but we think the biggest advantage is not having to wait for Windows to load before gaming.
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[...] nothing is more authentic than using a SteamOS-based system like Bazzite to control your PC with your controller. Plus, you avoid the headaches of managing a Windows computer. Here, everything is plug & play; no configuration is necessary.
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The entire saga of trying to get a new SSD into my Legion Go took longer than it took for Bazzite to install. Like seriously, I didn’t realize how quick the installation process is. That’s why there aren’t more pictures for you to see what it looks like.
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It's super fast, it's snappy, it's reliable, you know it is just a blessing to have coming from Windows and that is priceless for so many of you that like to play on the go
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I installed it on my Lenovo Legion Go and I actually haven't been able to put the Go down since I got the operating system installed. This is definitely one of the more stable, better performing Linux operating systems for your handheld gaming PC, and in my opinion it's totally worth trying out.
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By my testing so far, I'm not sacrificing any performance by using Bazzite. Both performance and battery life seems to be roughly equivalent to using Ally X in Windows.
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Even a veteran like me, I still run into problems when I'm messing around in Linux with certain things and having a team of gamers [...] sitting there gaming every day, and when they find things wrong they go ahead and tweak the system so it works easily for you so you don't have to spend time tinkering, and I think that's amazing
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This distro is great for any type of HTPC or any type of PC you want to transform into a console. This is for me the best of the best, the crème de la crème, I'm not even kidding.
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SteamOS itself shouldn't be installed on other hardware. This however can, and it gives you a really close experience.
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I'm extremely impressed with Bazzite OS on my Lenovo Legion Go. It has transformed this handheld PC into an incredibly versatile gaming machine that can play titles from Steam, Battle.net, Epic, GOG and more -- all with optimizations that include battery life, thermals, and the overall user experience.
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Including Waydroid configured by default is a pretty interesting choice, could expand what you can do on Steam Deck rather a lot don't you think? There's a lot of things there making me quite keen to try it out on one of my Steam Decks.
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Would you be interested in a distro that is tailored for Linux gaming? If yes, then we have just the thing for you.
Project News
Our team
Bazzite is built with Universal Blue on GitHub by a dedicated group of maintainers, and contributors like you.
We follow an upstream-first philosophy. Improvements made for Bazzite are always submitted upstream to benefit the wider Linux Gaming community.
Featuring alumni from companies like:
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Download Bazzite
New Users
The Legacy installer will be phased out soon, using the regular installer is recommended.
View the Bazzite initial setup guide.
View all Bazzite documentation.
Are you a developer? Check out the Bazzite Developer eXperience.
ArmadaExisting Fedora Atomic Desktop Users
Before proceeding, it is recommended to remove any layered packages with this command:
rpm-ostree reset
If you're using secure boot, follow our secure boot documentation before rebasing. You may also follow the rebasing video guide.
It's recommended by upstream that you stick to the same desktop environment as your current install when rebasing.
Your flatpaks and flatpak remotes will not be changed during the rebase process. Once rebased, you can optionally install Bazzite's default flatpaks by running the following in a terminal:
ujust _install-system-flatpaks
Once everything is set up properly, then you should rebase from the unsigned image to the signed image for security reasons, so enter this command in the host terminal:
ujust verify-imageExisting Bazzite users
Before proceeding, it is recommended to remove any layered packages with this command:
rpm-ostree reset
It's recommended by upstream that you stick to the same desktop environment as your current install when rebasing.
Build your own
Bazzite and downstream images are updated autonomously through GitHub Actions.
