There's no need to wait on Valve releasing SteamOS 3 for everyone thanks to Bazzite. Some really impressive work continues to go into it, and it appears they're enjoying some nice overall growth.
Writing in a post on the Bazzite Discourse forum, developer Jorge O. Castro made a post titled "Just how many of us are there?" that went over some fun details, with comparisons to a few other Linux builds like Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite. One thing is clear from it — Bazzite is steadily increasing in popularity with over 25,000 systems active using it.
Heck, Bazzite even got a shout out in a recent Marvel Rival's patch note. More and more are taking notice of Linux for gaming, thanks to how actually easy it is to get going now. And a lot of it, of course, thanks to Valve with the Steam Deck making it truly accessible to millions of gamers. Bazzite has no plans to go anywhere even when SteamOS 3 is released for everyone.
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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
One important thing to note is that this is a weekly count, there may be more users but they just aren't powering on their machine every week or are using the device offline.
Feel free to watch it grow (or shrink) with us! I think transparency here is key and hopefully others follow in giving these numbers out freely.
These Atomic images are so fun. I wonder if the Bazzite team still doesn't like it being called a distro.
Great to see that they are getting lots of users ;)
One important thing to note is that this is a weekly count, there may be more users but they just aren't powering on their machine every week or are using the device offline.
Feel free to watch it grow (or shrink) with us! I think transparency here is key and hopefully others follow in giving these numbers out freely.
Mohandevir 12 hours ago
Unfortunately, bluetooth support, on my PC, is finicky with Bazzite. I was using it up to two weeks ago, when I discovered that I could use stock SteamOS, with my hardware (all AMD).
Last edited by Mohandevir on 14 Feb 2025 at 6:32 pm UTC
Bazzite currently has problems with this imo
Last edited by Cato-the-younger on 14 Feb 2025 at 8:04 pm UTC
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