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View submission: Questions around building a dedicated SteamOS PC or go with a Steam Deck?
Are you running Bazzite and are familiar with it? Does it run all Steam games or just Linux compatible games and does it still support streaming from a Steam server to Bazzite?
Comment by KaldarTheBrave at 29/01/2025 at 03:28 UTC
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Anything the steam deck itself can do you can do on bazzite or any other Linux distribution with varying degrees of tinkering.
So the only games that won’t work will be ones that won’t work on a deck either which for most part is just multiplayer ones with certain anti cheats.
Comment by dawnsonb at 29/01/2025 at 02:23 UTC
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It can run anything that protondb says is working. Steam in-home streaming works as well!
Comment by PosterBoiTellEM at 29/01/2025 at 02:24 UTC
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It supports everything but the multiplayer anti cheat for the most part. And yes you can still stream
Comment by Stilgar314 at 29/01/2025 at 07:05 UTC
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Literally any Linux distribution with Steam installed on it has the same game compatibility as Steam Deck, and some are a breeze with drivers, like Ubuntu, in which there's a driver assistant that makes dead easy to have your hardware working, even Nvidia GPUs. The thing is, all reputable distros offer a desktop experience, focused on mouse and keyboard, hence the universal suggestion of Bazzite, which is a much smaller and unstable project, but once installed can be navigated with a controller, just like SteamOS, which is more convenient for a TV gaming only setup.
Comment by ClikeX at 29/01/2025 at 07:09 UTC
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Steam is the software that will manage compatibility and streaming for you. You could use nearly any Linux distro, as long as you install Steam.
Bassiste just comes pre-installed with a lot of gaming software (and UI). Which makes it easier to setup for people not experienced with Linux.
SteamOS, on the other hand, is just for SteamDeck. At least, for now.