Steam It is the most popular game store. Among his achievements, he has managed to make game on pc a less complicated experience. You hardly have to worry about drivers and other additional installations. Steam takes care of Install the Game and make it load correctly. But, over time, each developer has launched their own game launchers: Origin from Electronic Arts, Epic Games Store, Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect…Luckily, set up your own Steam game machine with other launchers and applications to play is easier with the help of projects like Bazzite.
After achieving success in selling PC games, Steam began working on its own hardware. Your project Steam game machines It consisted of selling computers built to run most of the games in its store. The project was abandoned, but from there it emerged Steam OSa Linux operating system optimized for play Steam titles. Valve still offers information on creating your own Steam Machine with SteamOS. And in their store you can see which games are compatible with SteamOS + Linux.
Valve’s next step in having its own Steam gaming machine is called the Steam Deck. Is a portable console that you can use independently or connect to a screen or television. And play with the console itself or with additional peripherals. That is, controller, keyboard and/or mouse. In the Steam store you can see which games are compatible from the game’s own technical sheet. And even if you don’t have a Steam Deck, you can turn your PC into a Steam gaming machine.
A homemade Steam game machine
Bazzite is, in the words of its creators, “a personalized image” of Linux focused on gaming on any of your devices. In practice, it is a Linux distribution based on Fedora, a very popular distro. And integrates all the necessary applications to play video games on PC. You can use it on an old PC to play titles that are not too demanding or on a new computer where you want to have everything under control. Even can be installed on Steam Deck, ASUS ROG or Lenovo Legion, among other portable gaming devices or laptops.
To start, Bazzite brings with him Steam and Lutris. The first is the official app from Valve’s Steam store, which also includes some improvements present on Steam Deck consoles, such as game mode or the Decky Loader app. The latter allows you to improve the Steam software to better enjoy your games on your PC as if you had a Steam Deck. For its part, Lutris is software for Linux that facilitates the installation and management of windows games from stores like Steam, Epic Games Store either GOG. And also integrates emulators to run console games from yesterday and the day before yesterday.
If all this is not enough for you to turn your computer into a Steam gaming machine, you will also find the Heroic Games Launcher app in this Linux. A Linux app that allows you to install and run games from stores such as Epic Games Store, GOG and Amazon Prime Games. Combining Steam, Lutris and Heroicyou will have all the game launchers at your disposal.
Games, applications and whatever you need
If you have enough space to fill your PC with games and have a little more left, you can always install applications. Although Bazzite is a standard Linux, it is designed so that anyone can use it without prior knowledge. It has the Flathub app store, which allows you to install apps with a simple mouse click. As its official website says, you can use Bazzite as a traditional desktop operating system.
And if you already have experience in Linux, you should know that Bazzite has two desktops, KDE and GNOME. So you can choose the one you like the most to work with or do any task, such as browsing the web, editing video or audio, etc. Not only that. It also integrates Waydroid, so you can install Android apps and games. In case you have enough with games from Steam, GOG and other launchers and game stores.
So it won’t be by software. Bazzite has everything you need so you can turn your PC into a Steam gaming machine. The key is in the hardware. It even has installers for each type of PC: desktop, multimedia, Steam Deck, ASUS ROG, laptop or virtual machine. Obviously, if your computer is old, it will not be able to launch the most powerful games.
But, in that sense, this Linux for games includes drivers for NVIDIA and AMD graphics cardsas well as drivers from the main manufacturers so that the PC runs the games you choose as best as possible, within the possibilities of your machine. On the other hand, it also allows connect console controllers such as Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Switch, PS3, PS4 and PS5.
