Presented is the release of the distribution kit Bazitte 45, aimed at fans of computer games. The distribution is based on the developments of the projects Fedora Kinoite 45 and Fedora Silverblue 45, which develop atomically updated editions of Fedora Linux with desktops KDE and GNOME. builds for PCs, laptops, set-top boxes and game consoles, such as Steam Deck, Asus Ally, GPD, Ayn and MSI Claw.
According to the ProtonDB service, the Bazzite project ranks fourth (9.5%) in the ranking of the popularity of Linux distributions used by computer game lovers, second only to CachyOS (21.1%), Arch Linux (14.9%) and Linux Mint (10.6%). Users of Bazzite 44 account for about 9.6% of traffic in the Flathub directory. For comparison, the share of Fedora 44 users in Flathub is estimated at 10.9%, Cachyos – 4.1%, Arch Linux – 2.9%.
The distribution comes in the form of a monolithic image, not divided into separate packages and updated as a whole. Applications are installed in Flatpak format or in container form. Waydroid is used to run Android games. It includes Steam and a selection of components sought after by gamers, as well as additional drivers for game controllers and Wi-Fi. Optimizations have been made to system components to increase responsiveness and improve support for HDR and VRR.
In the new version:
- Distribution components have been updated to Fedora 45. New versions of KDE Plasma 6.8.2 and GNOME 51.1 are offered. The graphics stack has been updated to Mesa 26.2.6.
- The Linux kernel 7.2.15 with patches from the OGC project is used, optimized to improve performance and efficiency when running computer games.
- Updated InputPlumber components for managing game controllers and input devices.
- Added bpftune and bpfrag services to automatically optimize kernel network stack settings for games.
- OpenCL runtime ROCm has been switched to use OpenCL Mesa drivers in images without proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
- Initial support for the Acer Predator Atlas 8 game console has been added and support for the ROG XBOX Ally X20 console has been stabilized.
- Added support for Logitech TrueForce gaming wheels.
- Added a graphical interface for performing operations with the Btrfs file system.
- When installing the application CoolerControl The command “ujust install-coolercontrol” uses a docker container.
