Is it legal to sell a prebuilt with bazzite installed?

Was wondering if it would be legal to build a prebuilt pc and sell it with bazzite installed. Also is there an OEM install just for that?

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I’m sure it is. Bazzite is free and is based on Fedora Linux, so it likely has the same MIT license. Last I checked, there isn’t a OEM install. Just pop an ISO and you’re good to go. :smiley:

I second the idea that an OEM installer would be excellent, though. A friend and I wanted to work on custom case fabrication for “Steam Machine” prebuilts and give end users the option of having ChimeraOS or Bazzite preinstalled.

i was thinking make a custom case and give end users bazzite preinstalled.

havent had the best luck with chimera

We can’t charge for Bazzite, and we can’t accept kickbacks for things like this, but we also cannot and will not stop you from shipping it on real hardware, nor can we stop you from contracting community members or maintainers w/o conflicts to resolve issues important to you.

If you’re planning to charge, be sure to get a green light from Valve since they ship the main proprietary component in Bazzite. If you’re shipping Nvidia hardware you’ll also need a green light from them for the driver, and lastly YMMV on h264 licensing.

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This is a good point, thanks for noting that! My friend who wants to set up a small business building immutable custom-tooled gaming desktops as “Steam Machine” likes was worried about the Valve thing. We’ll give em a ring.