{"id":236951,"date":"2026-04-29T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:50:08","slug":"bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Bazzite Linux 44 lands for desktop gamers and it&#8217;s a big release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/\">Bazzite Linux 44 lands for desktop gamers and it&#8217;s a big release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-29 05:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bazzite Linux 44 has landed now that Fedora 44 has been released, and with it plenty of nice changes for gamers wanting a good Linux distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, only the desktop edition appears to have been fully released so if you&#8217;re on handhelds you&#8217;ll have an extra wait. Writing in an official announcement Bazzite founder Kyle Gospodnetich mentioned: &#8220;For our deck users, we will be opening Bazzite 44 builds for deck in testing in the near future. We are slow-rolling this update due to the nature and amount of changes present in it to ensure that the vast majority of our existing users have a good experience. We\u2019ll update you on our progress in the coming weeks and look forward to testing it with you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in Bazzite 44:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KDE Plasma 6.6 w\/ new Plasma Login Manager<\/li>\n<li>GNOME 50<\/li>\n<li>OGC Kernel 6.19.x, with 7.0 coming in the near future. (Yes, we will include the Valve VRAM patchset with 7.0)<\/li>\n<li>Mesa 26.0.5<\/li>\n<li>Bazaar 0.7.15<\/li>\n<li>Ptyxis has been dropped from our KDE images, and the new Konsole terminal is available with container support.<\/li>\n<li>SBOMs (Which now power our changelogs), Build Attestation, OpenSSF security scanning, and signed ISOs.<\/li>\n<li>Built in support for Elgato 4K capture cards<\/li>\n<li>Images reduced by 1GB thanks to moving in-image QEMU and ROCM to Bazzite-DX for users who need them<\/li>\n<li>Access to the latest and greatest ASUS Linux patches for use with ASUSCtl (A brew package for this is being explored to make it even easier)<\/li>\n<li>New brew installer for Sunshine via ujust. <strong>Sunshine is no longer preinstalled in-image.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bazzite is my top recommendation for gaming handhelds and TV PCs, as it makes a lot of the setup really simple. It stays out of the way and gets you gaming quickly &#8211; exactly what you want.<\/p>\n<p>I have it on my Lenovo Legion Go (1st generation) and it has overall been an excellent SteamOS-like experience. Don&#8217;t really have anything bad to say about it, everything just works smoothly and I&#8217;ve put many hours gaming into it thanks to Bazzite.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bazzite Linux 44 lands for desktop gamers and it&#8217;s a big release https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/04\/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/bazzite.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71,57],"class_list":["post-236951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236953,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236951\/revisions\/236953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}