Play your favorite games

Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience.

Own games outside of Steam? Lutris (Pre-installed), Junk Store Decky Plugin, and Heroic Games Launcher from Flathub can not only run games from other stores, but cleanly integrate them into Steam Gaming Mode, including: EA App, Epic Games Store, GOG.com, itch.io, Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect, your dad's old CDs, and more!
Crysis Remastered
Crysis Remastered
Shot on Legion Go
Forza Horizon 5
Forza Horizon 5
Shot on Steam Deck
Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves
Deadlock
Deadlock
Shot on ROG Ally X
New to gaming on Linux? Check out Bazzite's Gaming Guide for up-to-date tips and tricks.
Wondering if your favorite games are compatible? Check the community-maintained compatibility lists:

On all your favorite devices

Bazzite works for you whether you prefer to game on your handheld, chill on the couch with your home theater PC, lug your laptop to the LAN party, surf the subway with your tablet, or pretend you're getting work done on your desktop - no judgement, we're hopelessly addicted to Deadlock too.

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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 Atomic 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.

Additionally, 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.

Experience enterprise class security with out-of-the-box SELinux, Secure Boot support, and LUKS full disk encryption with optional TPM unlocking.

Run your favorite 
applicationscontainerseverything

In addition to a plethora of commonly used GUI and CLI applications being available thanks to Flathub and Homebrew, Bazzite brings 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. The included Ptyxis terminal and BoxBuddy app 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.

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 from 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.

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.

Complete Handheld PC Support

Bazzite features Handheld Daemon, offering enhanced functionality and support for handhelds from manufacturers such as ASUS, Ayn, GPD, and Lenovo - all accessible by double tapping the quick access menu button.

Customize your handheld experience with in-depth controller emulation, including paddles, touchpad, rumble, face buttons, RGB lighting, and more.

Control all aspects of your hardware from a clean and intuitive UI, including GPU frequency, TDP controls, and CPU scheduler.

Join the community

Bazzite Documentation
Documentation

Looking for support? View our documentation site for up-to-date guides on installation, general use, game setup, and troubleshooting.

Ametrine, the Bazzite mascot, was gifted to us by Poulpi. Ametrine, the Bazzite mascot, was gifted to us by Poulpi.

Press & Testimonials

  • Ars Technica
    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.
    Kevin Purdy
    Ars Technica
  • Tom's Hardware
    PC gamers can now experience Linux gaming the way Valve intended it to be
    Aaron Klotz
    Tom's Hardware
  • Tom's Guide
    [...] 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.
    Jason England
    Tom's Guide
  • Apple Insider
    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.
    Chip Loder
    Apple Insider
  • XDA
    [...] if you're thinking about performance tuning, Bazzite has you covered too, even better than the ONEXPLAYER software ever did.
  • GENKI
    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.
    GENKI SavePoint Kickstarter
    GENKI / Human Things
  • EmuDeck Machines
    [...] 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.
  • How-To Geek
    Bazzite is just one small example of how PC gaming is awesome because of the freedom you have to tweak and customize the experience. I can't wait to see what else the community comes up with!
    Sydney Butler
    How-To Geek/span>
  • Retro Handhelds
    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.
    Andrew (Retro Handhelds)
    Retro Handhelds
  • Cyber Dopamine
    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
  • ETA PRIME
    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.
  • Fan The Deck
    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.
  • Chris Titus Tech
    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
  • A1RM4X
    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.
  • Hi-Tech Lo-Life
    SteamOS itself shouldn't be installed on other hardware. This however can, and it gives you a really close experience.
  • Gadget Pilipinas
    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.
  • GamingOnLinux
    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.
    Liam Dawe
    GamingOnLinux
  • It's FOSS News
    Would you be interested in a distro that is tailored for Linux gaming? If yes, then we have just the thing for you.
    Sourav Rudra
    It's FOSS

Project News

Our team

Bazzite is built with Universal Blue on GitHub by a dedicated group of maintainers, and contributors like you.

Featuring alumni from companies like:

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Canonical Chainguard Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Microsoft Red Hat VMware

Additionally, Bazzite contributes to and includes work from our friends: Sentry's kernel-fsync, The Fedora Project, Podman, The Nobara Project, ChimeraOS, Jovian-NixOS, and evlaV's GitLab.

We are immensely thankful for their support and collaboration.

Download Bazzite

Use the form below to get the correct ISO download link for your hardware and use case.

If you're already using a Fedora Atomic Desktop, you can rebase to Bazzite without reinstalling.

If you're having issues booting this ISO, ensure the Setup Utility -> USB Configuration -> USB Dual Role Device setting in your BIOS is set to XHCI and not DRD.
Your hardware utilizes Handheld Daemon to handle button mapping, RGB, and TDP control. Please refer to our Handheld Wiki for usage guides.
Your selected hardware does not support Steam Gaming Mode at this time. The Desktop version of Bazzite is still available.

Use this form to get the correct ISO download link for your hardware and use case.

If you're already using a Fedora Atomic Desktop, you can rebase to Bazzite without reinstalling.

Lenovo Legion Go

A high resolution screen, detachable controllers with dual gyros, sturdy hinge, and hall effect joysticks and triggers, make the Legion Go the highest engineered handheld in the market. With dual per-controller gyro, 4 paddles, RGB, and touchpad that are usable in Steam Input, it matches and exceeds the Steam Deck, there's nothing to miss from Valve's offerings.

Even better, detach the controllers and enjoy the same experience on the couch and bump to 30W to give that extra oomph to new titles. Pop the stand open, dock, and use yours as a desktop replacement, as many of us are doing.

Having the fastest Laptop CPU AMD makes, you'll forget you even had a laptop. The Legion Go also makes for a great tablet, utilizing our built-in Android container support to take full advantage of that touch screen. Unfortunately, Windows may need to be dual booted to keep the BIOS updated.

ASUS ROG Ally & Ally X

Being ASUS' little 'hot rod', the ROG Ally runs at over 40W stock, with a cooling system to match.

Combined with its 120hz VRR display and 800Hz gyro, the Ally is a joy to use and a must for the most discerning gamers. Experience 0 latency with your actions and the most consistent frame pacing in the market.

With granular TDP controls, fan curves, RGB, and paddle support in Steam Input, Bazzite offers a hand-tuned experience for the Ally, that will have you leaving Windows behind.

Valve Steam Deck

Bazzite offers a solid alternative to SteamOS, with up-to-date kernel, packages, and a first class desktop experience. Choose between KDE Plasma and GNOME, and layer system packages to turn your Steam Deck into a mini computer while still retaining feature parity with SteamOS, including firmware and BIOS updates.

GPD Devices

GPD devices offer the smallest form factor laptops out in the market, with high quality controllers built-in. It is intended for the seasoned road warrior. Great for gaming, work, and even light machine learning.
The GPD devices are a joy to use, and fully supported by Bazzite. It has out-of-the-box support for the L4, R4 buttons, touchpad, and gyro to be used in Steam Input, and bundled ROCm for your machine learning needs.

We support the all of the 2023 GPD collection, including GPD Win 4, GPD Win Mini, Max 2. If your device is not perfectly supported, get in touch in us, and we will try to get that sorted out for you.

Ayn Loki

The Ayn Loki is our pick for the most portable handheld in the market right now.

With a great high resolution screen, controls that feel great, and sick looking RGB handles, there's a lot to love. We offer RGB control out-of-the-box, and the handheld experience you would expect with such a handheld. We have verified support for the Loki Max, but if you own one of the other variants then get in touch with us. We will make sure the next Bazzite version has great support for your unit too.

Home Theater PCs

What makes Bazzite great for handhelds transfers over to Home Theater PCs. Enjoy the PC gaming console-like experience that a setup like that should have from the comfort of your couch. Feel free to bump up the frame-rate and resolution, without the power limitations of a handheld.

This experience is powered by Valve's window manager, Gamescope, which is included in our Handheld/HTPC images. Gamescope has certain hardware requirements with fantastic support for recent AMD GPUs and decent support for Intel GPUs.

Nvidia still has driver issues with Gamescope and is not supported, unfortunately. Bazzite supports Nvidia drivers on our desktop images, so you can still use our Desktop variant.

Desktops & Laptops

Bazzite marries Cloud technology, gaming, and developer tools into a compelling package. With Bazzite, you can work and game on the same OS, regardless of what your hardware is or what your work consists of.

We make sure our desktop images work on ASUS Laptops, Lenovo Legion Laptops, Framework Laptops and on AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs. Out-of-the-box tools such as Distrobox, Flatpak, and package layering, you can install that one missing package like a VPN client you bought a year ago, all while keeping the benefits of an atomic operating system.

What benefits does atomic bring? A scenario where an update breaks a package occurs, but now you can completely rollback safely and quickly to any Bazzite build that came out within the last 90 days. Delivered straight to you from our image repositories. Rollbacks and rebasing almost act like a cloud save for your operating system.

Framework

Bazzite is an official community-support option for Framework laptops, with out-of-the-box support for all of Framework's hardware, including the custom handhelds community members keep showing off!

Enjoy enhanced dGPU support on the Framework 16, no setup, no launch options, no fuss. Applications like Steam, Lutris, and Ollama are automatically configured to run on your dGPU for optimal performance. Thanks to Framework's modules you can even add a MicroSD card slot and share games with your other Bazzite or SteamOS running hardware - plug and play just like any gaming handheld.

Looking to do more than game? Bazzite comes with full support for SELinux & Secure Boot, and contains helpful ujust commands for setting up TPM unlock for LUKS drive encryption. Improvements to power management and enhancements to GNOME allow for improved battery life, and the atomic desktop model provides a bullet-proof base with easy rollbacks.

Other Handheld PCs

Note: A few Ayaneo and OneXPlayer handhelds have been confirmed to boot Bazzite, but are plagued by missing driver support for Linux.

If your handheld hardware is not listed, then you can still give Bazzite a try with our Handheld/HTPC image.

Your mileage may vary with untested hardware.

New Users

View the Bazzite initial setup guide.
View all Bazzite documentation.
Why is the ISO so large?:
Desktop operating systems distributed in OCI containers are still a relatively new concept and we've had to make some concessions for technical reasons. Flatpaks and their runtimes are included in the ISO, and a second copy of Fedora Linux is used to bootstrap the installer. The large size of our ISO is not indicitative of final install size on disk.

Existing Fedora Atomic Desktop Users

It is recommended to remove any layered packages before proceeding with this command:
rpm-ostree reset

You may rebase to Bazzite with this command:
rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/:stable

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

Build your own

As an OCI image, Bazzite is able to be consumed, repackaged, and shared. Dislike our choices or want more software pre-installed than we offer? Creating your own image is easy and builds can be scheduled to keep in-sync with us, or forge your own path.

Bazzite, its RPM packages, and downstream images are updated autonomously through GitHub Actions and Fedora Copr webhooks.
Create an image FROM bazzite
Create a fork of Bazzite We recommend the Pull app for GitHub to automatically keep your fork in sync with upstream.