Bazzite Linux 42 has been released in conjunction with Fedora 42, featuring BETA support for MSI Claw handhelds, enhanced HDR support in GNOME and KDE, as well as numerous improvements across the project. GNOME 48 now officially supports HDR, and KDE Plasma 6.3.4 introduces a variety of enhancements. Bazzite has released a patch addressing the audio output resetting behavior on Steam, enabling users to modify their audio output settings on their HTPC. Bazzite-DX has launched a new website, and the team is collaborating with Fyra Labs to develop an innovative Live ISO experience, a new Flatpak store, and to replace Yafti with a contemporary first-run installer.

Bazzite 42 is now available!

Bazzite 42 releases today alongside Fedora 42, bringing BETA support for the MSI Claw handhelds, improved HDR support under both GNOME and KDE, and various improvements throughout the project!

HDR Support

As of GNOME 48 HDR support is now generally available. KDE Plasma 6.3.4 has also made numerous improvements to their HDR support! If you want to try it out on the desktop you can either use a version of Wine with Wine Wayland built in, or enable the HDR support for existing releases of proton thanks to  vk_hdr_layer, which we’ve preinstalled for you.

Improved HTPC support

Thanks to work by Glorious Eggroll (my hero <3), Bazzite now has a patch for Steam’s audio output resetting behavior. For people that don’t speak nerd, this means you can change your audio output options on your HTPC and expect them to stay where you set them when you enter gaming mode. Wow!

New Bazzite-DX Website

Building on our earlier announcement of developer editions of Bazzite desktop, Bazzite-DX now has a new website you can check out while we build it out. You can check it out  here.

Growth

We pride ourselves on showing any numbers we have, the charts below are just a snapshot of the constantly updated one we keep on our website.

Overall it’s been a great year for Universal Blue and for the Bazzite project. We’re really looking forward to where things go from here!

Future Stuff

Our team is working with the folks at Fyra Labs (Ultramarine Linux) on a new Live ISO experience that may come to Bazzite in the future and a new Flatpak store is on the way to replace the aging Discover/Software thanks to Glorious Eggroll. Additionally, Yafti is being replaced with a modern and better first-run installer as soon as possible, and we’ll continue to work on expanding to new handhelds. As always if you want to come join us everything here is built in GitHub. We’d love the additional support!

Full release notes

The automatically generated changelog for this release can be seen  here.

Update Notice

If you are having any issues updating, be sure to try the “System Update” app available in the desktop applications list:

And if that still doesn’t work, post the full output of that application in any of our help sections. You can also try removing any applications you’ve layered with rpm-ostree reset prior to updating.

As always, if you find that you’d rather stay on Bazzite 41 for the time being you can roll back with rpm-ostree rollback.

Bazzite 42 is now available!