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bazzite

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

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1Explicit recommenders
9.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

It's a cool list of patches. I love these projects that bundle a bunch of cool things together with a base thing. Bazzite is a SteamOS project that similarly bundles all kinds…

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This week on Hacker News

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-11 06:46:20 UTC to 2026-03-20 07:09:22 UTC.

02462023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 2026

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What Hacker News says

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This is based on bootc (bootable containers), so note that the OS build is described in a normal Dockerfile: https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue/blob/main/Container... which is then run by the Github action (or locally). Very similar to how Universal Blue, Bazzite, Bluefin etc. build at https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite (see their Containerfile), but for mobile. Has a similar mission to https://postmarketos.org, but with a different build system AFAICT
In Pocketblue – Fedora Atomic for mobile devices
A bit of salt from me. This is why I don't like target-audience-optimized distributions. Problem statement: speaker do not work properly (Asus Rog Z13 in my case). Here what Bazzite does: obtains a firmware _somewhere_, stores in a no-license personal repo with a promise to rewrite repo history and purge files within 5 business days on contact, builds Bazzite-only installation script and pulls it in a main repo[1]. Users after that say, that Bazzite is the only distro where it works out-of-the-box. Here what I did: contacted linux-firmware, was redirected by Mario Limonciello to Cirrus, contacted few Cirrus people who commit these firmwares, got response the same day. Same day Asus Rog Z13 firmwares were added to linux-firmware[2]. Was it simple? Hell yes. Why other people prefer to reverse-engineer instead? Today users say that Bazzite i
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s the best, tomorrow they will see the price of this smoothness and it will turn into another Ventoy-style drama[3]. [1] https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/ad5704b87388fbde7e3... [2] https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/-/commit/0... [3] https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
In Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming
I really like the idea of immutable Linux and bootable containers. My next project will probably be switching to bazzite. But I took a look at the Containerfile[1], and I have some big concerns about the fragility of their supply chain. It uses 20 different copr repos (granted, half are their own), and I didn't count how many packages. Best I can tell, none of the versions are pinned. They do dump a diff of all package versions in the release notes[2], but I wonder if anyone actually reviews it before release. All it takes is one vulnerability in one repo / package and you can enjoy your new cryptominer. There's something nice about running Debian and having confidence in all the packages because they're built and maintained by the Debian team. Of course there are exceptions, but in my experience they're rare. The only non-standard repo I
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regularly use is fish shell, and the updates are so few and far between (and very public) I think the risk is low. I suppose this isn't strictly a container-specific problem; you could add the repos and install / update all those packages yourself too. But being able to package everything up into a single file that you can then boot into as your OS means you're also packing all the supply chain risk. Curious if anyone else shares my concern or if I should just put my tinfoil hat back on... 1. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile 2. https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/42.20250417
In The Joy of Linux Theming in the Age of Bootable Containers
Immutable distro resources https://github.com/castrojo/awesome-immutable Fedora is probably the most mature immutable desktop distro right now, both Silverblue (Gnome) and Kinoite (KDE). I use Kinoite on my Thinkpad x270 and it's been perfect so far. Ubuntu will release its own version, Ubuntu Core Desktop, “soon” (got delayed earlier this year) Another interesting one is Bazzite. Inspired by the Steam Deck OS but runs on Fedora (instead of the Steam Deck's Arch) with all the possible Nvidia, AMD, and other gaming enhancements enabled https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/
In Manjaro Immutable out now for community testing
> AMD's ROCm OCI base images, ROCm docs > "Install ROCm Docker containers" > Base Image: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates... links to ROCm/ROCm-docker: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm-docker which is the source of docker.io/rocm/rocm-terminal: https://hub.docker.com/r/rocm/rocm-terminal : docker run -it --device=/dev/kfd --device=/dev/dri --group-add video rocm/rocm-terminal ROCm docs > "Docker image support matrix": https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/lates... ROCm/ROCm-docker//dev/Dockerfile-centos-7-complete: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm-docker/blob/master/dev/Dockerfi... Bazzite is a ublue (Universal Blue) fork of the Fedora Kinoite (KDE) or Fedora Silverblue (Gnome) rpm-ostree Linux distributions; ublue-os/bazzite//Containerfile : https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containe
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rfile#... has, in addition to fan and power controls, automatic updates on desktop, supergfxctl, system76-scheduler, and an fsync kernel: rpm-ostree install rocm-hip \ rocm-opencl \ rocm-clinfo But it's not `rpm-ostree install --apply-live` because its a Containerfile. To install a ublue-os distro, you install any of the Fedora ostree distros: {Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, or Budgie Atomic} from e.g. a USB stick and then `rpm-ostree rebase <OCI_host_image_url>`: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite:stable rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia:stable rpm-ostree rebase ostree-image-signed: ublue-os/config//build/ublue-os-just/40-nvidia.just defines the `ujust configure-nvidia` and `ujust toggle-nvk` commands: https://github.com/ublue-os/config/blob/main/build/ublue-os-... There's a default `distrobox` with pytorch in ublue-os/config//build/ublue-os-just/etc-distrobox/apps.ini: https://github.com/ublue-os/config/blob/main/build/ublue-os-... [mlbox] image=nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:23.08-py3 additional_packages="nano git htop" init_hooks="pip3 install huggingface_hub tokenizers transformers accelerate datasets wandb peft bitsandbytes fastcore fastprogress watermark torchmetrics deepspeed" pre-init-hooks="/init_script.sh" nvidia=true pull=true root=false replace=false docker.io/rocm/pytorch: https://hub.docker.com/r/rocm/pytorch pytorch/builder//manywheel/Dockerfile: https://github.com/pytorch/builder/blob/main/manywheel/Docke... ROCm/pytorch//Dockerfile: https://github.com/ROCm/pytorch/blob/main/Dockerfile The ublue-os (and so also bazzite) OCI host image Containerfile has Sunshine installed; which is a 4k HDR 120fps remote desktop solution for gaming. There's a `ujust remove-sunshine` command in system_files/desktop/shared/usr/share/ublue-os/just/80-bazzite.just : https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/system_files/d... and also kernel args for AMD: pstate-force-enable: rpm-ostree kargs --append-if-missing=amd_pstate=active ublue-os/config//Containerfile: https://github.com/ublue-os/config/blob/main/Containerfile LizardByte/Sunshine: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine moonlight-stream https://github.com/moonlight-stream Anyways, hopefully this PR fixes the immediate issue: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/pull/5714/files conda-forge/pytorch-cpu-feedstock > "Add ROCm variant?": https://github.com/conda-forge/pytorch-cpu-feedstock/issues/... And Fedora supports OCI containers as host images and also podman container images with just systemd to respawn one or a pod of containers.
In AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

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