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You don't, but oh boy, the experience is worth it. Bazzite[1] has it quirks but it mostly works fine in desktops.

Imo if you just have a regular desktop PC, use Ubuntu/Fedora, not a dedicated 'gaming' distro. Bazzite's good as a stand in for steam os on non Valve handhelds, but Steam and Proton work just fine on a regular boring Linux distro.

Bazzite is a lot less messing around though. Stock standard fedora doesn't have the drivers needed for modern xbox controllers. Doesn't have a controller usable interface, etc.

If your PC is connected to a TV than Bazzite is a much better experience.

I mostly agree, with the caveat the Bazzite is also a good option for PCs that spend their life permanently connected to a TV as a gaming box. It makes for a great big screen sofa experience too vs using typical Linux distro desktop UIs or Windows. Roll your own Steam Machine, essentially.

Bazzite is just Fedora Kinoite with some tweaks for gaming, like automatically including Nvidia drivers.

I've joined the Kinoite kult since it's much easier to deal with an atomic system.

Debian / Fedora are riddled with features gamers will never need.

So is windows. The point being that you can have your cake and eat it too with a stable distribution, proper drivers, proton and Steam.

I'm making an assumption that most HN commenters aren't using their PC only for games.

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