New Bazzite user here. Long story short I was looking to leave Windows and tried a few distros (Nobara,Kali, Endeavour...)

At the end of the day Bazzite is the one that works best out of the box.

My only issue was with Nvidia&Wayland: I got tons of crashes even on native games. Switched to X11 and works like a charm.

The negative point? It's not Arch :D

I installed Bazzite onto the laptops of two friends who have never used Linux before but were getting fed up with Windows.

They've been very happy with it, and I've been very happy not having to worry about hybrid GPU support, or them misconfiguring something to breakage!

I used it for about 9 months on my gaming laptop. From a gaming perspective it was great. I have AMD and everything just worked out of the box. Installing new packages takes some getting used to, but 99% of the time you can find it on flathub which is super easy to use and maintain. I did notice that it seemed to take a significantly longer time to boot compared to my previous distros. On average probably a good 15-30 seconds longer which feels like forever when waiting for it to come up. Not sure if this is common or just something funky with my setup. I used Silverblue a few years back and don't remember it being that slow. I also never could get my Canon printer drivers to install and function properly which is what inevitably lead me to switch back to Nobara. I like being able to use "dnf install" for something or tweak a vendor provided install script and it just installs the thing and then be done with it.

I used it for a while, it was pretty good until something messed up and I couldn't fix it because of the "immutable" aspect, but if that's a selling point for you then I'd say go for it.

Can 100% recommend.

The only difference between -deck and the classic one is the default environment it bolts into.

With -deck, you boot into the Steam big picture mode, and with the normal variant into normal KDE.

If you chose -deck, you can still enter desktop mode by clicking the power menu and then "Exit to desktop".

I recently installed it on my gaming PC with an Nvidia GPU and AMD CPU. It was my first time with Linux and I was partitioning a drive to dual boot windows in case I screwed the whole thing up and needed a fall back. I hit a few speed bumps mostly due to lack of experience and the dual booting (stupid secure boot!).

Beyond that my only issue so far has been an inability to get my VPN app running but since this is just a gaming PC that I don't use for anything else I've just gone without the VPN. The Nvidia GPU has not really caused any problems for me so far to be honest.

I've only tried two games so far, Cyberpunk so I could benchmark graphical performance against Windows, and Return to Moria because I wanted to test a cheap game that specifically says it's not Steamdeck compatible. Both tests have been successful as far as I'm concerned. I will mention that I'm pretty exclusively a solo gamer and I've heard that people have had issues with trying to play Return to Moria with friends.

Anything you want to use that works is fine. You're not going to be seeing much performance difference between distros for the most part aside from some very specific cases.

Tried hard to get it to run on a T470p (nvidia gpu) but did not succeed. Switched to nobara and am very happy as gaming/desktop replacement. Very sleek ootb.

I've been using it on my gaming rig/dev workstation for nearly a year and its been great. Games work great. I had some issues with printer drivers, and with some dev tools. I hadn't used a fedora-based system in years so many of my issues likely stemmed from that. Editors seem to be confused by the home symlink, especially IntelliJ et al.

Overall I'd highly recommend it. Someone mentioned slow boot, but that hasn't been my experience. It boots within a few seconds.