Just wanted to hear from other people on if bazzite will still be as big as it is now when SteamOS officially comes out. I love bazzite but I feel like people were using it because SteamOS wasn’t available for another handheld/desktop.
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Hey @iJoltedJosh, the following questions may help you get a full picture, in no particular order:
- Does StreamOS offer automatic effortless updates like your Bazzite?
- Does it have a strong community of competent users able to help you solve your issues?
- Say a system upgrade goes horribly wrong in SteamOS, are you able to rollback to the old version?
Love & Peace, Phroi
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I wouldn’t say we’re big, just filling a need people have, there’s millions of potential users.
More Linux on more devices for more people is the goal, distros don’t matter.
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Personally I like to game and develop on Linux and I doubt SteamOS would fit my needs as well as bazzite and bluefin do
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Bazzite will not go away
- It is more up to date than SteamOS
- More hardware support due to the above
- Better suited as a hybrid system compared to SteamOS
- Nvidia (unless their drivers finally get fixed)
This ontop of the other benefits mentioned by everyone else here
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Goal is great: Linux - rock it. 
The distro that will have the biggest market share will be in great advantage. On traditional desktop Linux, Ubuntu has the most market share and hardware vendors are looking at distro with largest market share e.g. Intel and Ubuntu.
Bazzite is early at the party, it has advantage over newcomers. If you are late, you have very hard job convincing people to switch to your product. Few years back Microsoft bought Nokia for 4 billion US dollars to enter mobile device market and then shutdown the project. Android and iOS were absolute market rulers, and plenty of small providers super struggling to get application developers to develop application for tiny market share OS. Also Ubuntu Touch mobile attempt had similar issues and the same fate. Similar is Linux desktop, Windows and MacOS are big players and hardware vendors preinstall them.
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Something to remember is that some people are installing this on their Steam Decks, which already have access to Steam OS.
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These answers are all predicated on the current state of steamos.
I think it’s fair to say a lot of the things raised here have to be fixed before steamos can become a generally released OS image.
At the moment it’s built for only one target, for only one purpose; running steam deck for games. Everything else is secondary.
If it gets released as a general image things like hardware compatibility, system updates, ecosystem management, ease of use, and so forth will need to be resolved.
So I think the number of people using Bazzite for pure gaming will probably see a shift to steamos just because I think it’s likely valve will prioritise that market better.
But Bazzite will probably serve general purpose computing better, so it’ll still be around.
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Nothing. I use Bazzite on my HTPC, Desktop, and Framework 16.
Official steamos 3 is not going to be any better than bazzite is now. If I had a steam deck it would be running bazzite. Newer kernel, all the ujust scripts, and all the other enhancements.
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