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Bazzite has seen a massive jolt in growth over the holiday season, surpassing 50k active users. The Fedora Atomic image has gained 38.8k users total in 2025 since it began counting in April 🥳 (lemmy.ml)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_global.svg

Graphs can be found here on their github. Since around mid November the active user count for Bazzite has gone up by around 16k active users.

Personally, my only wish for Bazzite is a Cosmic version 👼 I tried it out recently and it seems fairly impressive

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[–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Universal Blue is the project which maintains Bazzite and other brilliant immutable images based on Fedora Silverblue (Gnome) and Fedora Kinoite (KDE)

Bazzite has Steam bundled in the image which is a bit better for performance, Bazzite-dx is Bazzite with devtools.

Aurora is another image made for general computing, Steam is installed as a Flatpak with a little worse performance but not much

Bluefin is your typical dev-workstation

If you’re serious about gaming I recommend KDE as your desktop environment, plays nicer with HDR, VRR and fractional scaling than Gnome.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why is Flatpak Steam worse for performance? I've been using it for years, seemingly better performance than Windows on the same system. Something inherent about Flatpak?

    If you’re serious about gaming I recommend KDE as your desktop environment, plays nicer with HDR, VRR and fractional scaling than Gnome.

    Mm, I don't think I'd be willing to sacrifice my Niri workflow. Niri also supports fractional scaling and VRR, but not yet HDR, which I can live without until it's implemented. 😁

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Flatpak is simply a sandboxed application, similar to a Docker container. Its better to have natively installed applications over sandboxed if you are seeking the highest level of performance.

    You have essentially made all your games run within a sandboxed instance which has a limited set of binaries that emulate another mini OS within your primary OS.

    If you haven't seen any performance issues, then keep on doing what you're doing, the software is very well made compared to Ubuntu Snap and likely has similar driver performance as close as possible to bare-metal

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Flatpak is simply a sandboxed application, similar to a Docker container. Its better to have natively installed applications over sandboxed if you are seeking the highest level of performance.

    This is bullshit. Containers run natively on your system just like "native" [sic] applications.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    They literally say they are a fucking container tool like Docker in their own FAQ , you silly person.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Read again. You completely misunderstood.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    What's a container that doesn't run natively on the system called?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    That’s not what the FAQ says, rather it says Flatpaks are often sandboxed but not fully containerized. Containers don’t need to have a performance penalty because they run on the same kernel as the host. Container tech applies a chroot, disables some capabilities within the container and that’s about it. They are in contrast to virtual machines that need to boot an entire additional OS before doing anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    essentially made all your games run within a sandboxed instance which has a limited set of binaries that emulate another mini OS within your primary OS.

    Isn't it just library bundling? It's not like it's running inside a virtual machine or anything.

    I can see the Rocket League process right there when listing my user processes, e.g.

    There are so many conflicting reports regarding the performance on Flatpak, for Steam but also in general, so I don't know what to believe.

    At least one source said the performance overhead is negligible on modern hardware, so I think I'm gucci.

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