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I stopped recommending Bazzite after realizing any Linux distro can game just as well
Quoting: I stopped recommending Bazzite after realizing any Linux distro can game just as well —
Valve released Proton 11.0-1 as stable on July 7, 2026, rebasing Steam Play on Wine 11.0, and Wine 11.0 brought NTSYNC support along with the completed WoW64 architecture. If you game on Linux or plan to at all in the future, these updates were some of the most consequential things to happen in the last month with regard to your PC's future. If you notice, none of that has anything to do with distribution, nor do most of the other optimizations that have come along in the last few years.
Most of the worthwhile Linux gaming tweaks have arrived through Steam on top of kernel-level features that have been mainline for long enough for them to trickle down to most distros. Gaming distros like Bazzite are certainly still worth downloading and using if your only goal is getting up and running with your favorite games as fast as possible, but the truth is, any distro can be just as good at being a gaming distro, and the only practical difference now is convenience.