Comparison of Bazzite & Upstream Fedora Atomic Desktop¶

What is Bazzite?¶

Bazzite is a custom image of Fedora Kinoite (KDE Plasma images) or Fedora Silverblue (GNOME images) which are part of the Fedora Atomic Desktop family with modifications made to try and provide a user friendly experience out of the box with a focus on PC gaming.

The following is a list of features Bazzite ships with that differs from upstream Fedora Atomic Desktop operating systems:

Better hardware support out of the box from PC hardware to peripheral devices.
Multimedia codecs with full support for accelerated video encoding and decoding out of the box.
Gaming-focused software pre-installed like Steam and Lutris.
Fedora Flatpak remote removed in favor of using the System Flathub remote to have access to more applications by default.

Convenient ujust scripts by maintainers and contributors of the project.
Steam Gaming Mode is setup out of the box and auto-starts on Bazzite-Deck images which are intended for handheld and couch gaming.

Homebrew is the intended package manager for command-line tools.
Distrobox containers grants access to other Linux desktop package managers for specific applications or development environments.
Bazzite-DX variant as the defacto Bazzite image for software development.

Android application support with Waydroid.
Firefox is no longer part of the image in favor of the Flatpak version.
- Firefox can now be uninstalled as it is not part of the image
- It also can receive updates faster since it does not rely on system upgrades to update.
Secondary drives that are formatted as BTRFS or Ext4 will be automatically auto-mounted.
Tweaks to desktop environments including pre-installed GNOME extensions and KDE Plasma themes.
Rollback to older Bazzite builds within the last 90 days.