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Bazzite

Bazzite is an opinionated immutable Fedora-based OS, aiming for great out-of-the-box experience on Handheld/Livingroom PC ("deck" flavor) and general purpose Desktops and Laptops.

While it's understandable to desire the original SteamOS, distros like Bazzite are a better choice for non-Valve hardware.

Improvements over vanilla SteamOS

  • newer Kernel and KDE components
  • more Wi-Fi NICs and other non-Valve hardware supported
  • NVIDIA GPU drivers included in -nvidia flavors
  • a flavor with GNOME Desktop Environment is available
  • tools provided to create customized OS images

System requirements

  • GPU with Wayland support
    • AMD: GCN 1.0 or newer
      • Desktop: 2012 Radeon HD 7000 series
      • Mobile: 2013 Radeon HD 8000M series (8000D and 8000G not supported)
    • Intel: 2015 6th generation Core "Skylake" iGPU
    • NVIDIA:
      • RTX Series or GTX 16xx Series ("nvidia-open" flavor)
      • GTX 750, GTX 9xx and GTX 10xx Series ("nvidia" flavor)
  • Motherboard with UEFI, or late CSM (e.g. Intel Core 3rd gen)