Bazzite

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with Bazzite, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Xbox controllers need fiddling to work every time, wasting time2026-09-01
Unclear which of three software install methods is the right one2026-09-01
Battle.net is annoying to set up, needing Proton version tweaks and sometimes crashing on launch2026-05-18
Wine not installed by default, so double-clicking Windows game executables doesn't work2026-02-10
Long unexplained delays when the terminal exits and randomly during OS startup2026-02-03
Main menu is very slow, with about half a second of lag per interaction2025-11-30
Juggling multiple package managers makes installing software tedious and slow2025-11-30
Default boot entry hangs, so user must quickly select another entry every boot2025-11-30
Controller not recognized in Dark Souls II; some games need graphics tinkering and are buggier2025-10-16
Can't tell what Bazzite is from the first page2025-10-07
Landing page never clearly says Bazzite is a Linux distribution, so readers can't tell what it is2025-10-07
Installing a package with rpm-ostree takes around ten minutes2025-03-24