{"id":239922,"date":"2026-05-05T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/all-linux-gamers-should-take-the-latest-bazzite-release-seriously-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:10:10","slug":"all-linux-gamers-should-take-the-latest-bazzite-release-seriously-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/all-linux-gamers-should-take-the-latest-bazzite-release-seriously-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"All Linux gamers should take the latest Bazzite release seriously &#8211; here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-linux-gamers-should-take-latest-bazzite-release-seriously\/\">All Linux gamers should take the latest Bazzite release seriously &#8211; here&#8217;s why<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-linux-gamers-should-take-latest-bazzite-release-seriously\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-linux-gamers-should-take-latest-bazzite-release-seriously\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 22:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Kerry Wan\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The latest release from Bazzite delivers for gamers.<\/li>\n<li>You won&#8217;t find a better out-of-the-box gaming experience on Linux.<\/li>\n<li>The only caveat is that games requiring anti-cheat still do not work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a rare occasion that I say, &#8220;Whoa!&#8221; when logging into a Linux distribution for the first time, but that&#8217;s exactly what I did upon installing the latest stable version of Bazzite. As soon as I logged in, I knew that this version of the OS was an important step for the world of Linux  gaming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I realized immediately that the developers of Bazzite were doing everything they could to make gaming on Linux simple, and it&#8217;s nearly impossible to deny that they&#8217;ve succeeded.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get deeper into this, I should mention that even the newest release of Bazzite does not solve the anti-cheating issue that prevents some games from playing on the Linux\/Steam combo. Currently, indie and single-player games work flawlessly on Steam. The problem arises with multiplayer games.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also: This critical Linux vulnerability is putting millions of systems at risk &#8211; how to protect yours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the gist: Game cheats rely on kernel-level access (as they do on Windows). Unfortunately, Linux does not have an official implementation for this, so some players   exploit the user-mode environment to make it easier for cheat developers to bypass detection methods used by anti-cheat software.<\/p>\n<p>Because of cheaters, a lot of game developers opt to either not offer their games on Steam or not allow them to run on Linux machines. Currently, there is no fix for this.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, single-player and indie games work just fine, and the latest version of Bazzite shines in this area.<\/p>\n<p>And it all starts during installation.<\/p>\n<p>Say what?<\/p>\n<h2>The Bazzite installation<\/h2>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even begin to tell you how many times I&#8217;ve installed Linux. By 10 a.m. today, I&#8217;d installed three different distributions. Suffice it to say, I not only know my way around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-linux-gamers-should-take-latest-bazzite-release-seriously\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Linux gamers should take the latest Bazzite release seriously &#8211; here&#8217;s why https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/why-linux-gamers-should-take-latest-bazzite-release-seriously\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/4c9cecc90e90691e7d3a52c01715ed27cd3bed34\/2026\/05\/05\/b633206d-fb60-4293-b00a-7b95535f264b\/20260505-145144.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[31,71,27],"class_list":["post-239922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-exploit","tag-linux","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239922"}],"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=239922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239925,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239922\/revisions\/239925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}