The Bazzite Fall Update has officially landed, bringing the Fedora-based gaming image up to Fedora 43. The release introduces expanded handheld device support, renewed Nvidia compatibility, and updated desktop environments, making this one of the most comprehensive refreshes for Linux gamers this year.
Bazzite’s latest build focuses on real-world performance, hardware coverage, and long-term reliability. The update adds full support for Xbox Ally and Ally X handhelds, including RGB lighting, fan curve control, and back-button mapping.
Collaboration with AMD helped resolve long-standing sleep issues related to the Steam Deck chipset, while amplifier driver tuning improved audio clarity. Users of the Ally X should, however, keep volume under 80 percent to avoid speaker clipping, with a fix pending from Texas Instruments maintainers.
The update also enhances support for Lenovo’s Legion Go 2, introducing sleep and dual-controller gyro functionality. HDR PQ remains unavailable for now, as do two new d-pad buttons.
Meanwhile, OneXPlayer X1 Air owners gain RGB and controller integration, though only two TDP profiles 15 W and 25 W are active via the Turbo button. Bazzite has also added support for the SuiPlay0X1, aimed at users seeking a Web2-style gaming experience.
On the GPU side, Bazzite delivers long-term stability for Nvidia closed drivers supporting GPUs up to the GTX 1000 series. Thanks to a new kernel build process, the platform now maintains dual driver modules and a dedicated Nvidia drivers mirror, keeping the 580 LTS driver available indefinitely with three years of security updates.
While Nvidia’s upcoming 590 driver drops legacy card support, Bazzite ensures older GPUs remain fully functional. The team encourages Bluefin and Aurora users relying on closed drivers to migrate, as those projects plan to phase out that support.
With Fedora 43 at its core, the new release ships GNOME 49 and KDE Plasma 6.4.5, with KDE 6.5 expected soon. The Bazaar app center has also been refreshed, improving memory efficiency, refining the Flathub interface, and delivering faster, smoother navigation across packages.
Peripheral support gets a serious boost, too. Bazzite adds new steering-wheel drivers Thrustmaster (hid-tmff2, t150_driver), Logitech (new-lg4ff), and FANATEC (hid-fanatecff) plus Oversteer integration for fine tuning profiles directly through Bazaar.
Some older features have been retired for efficiency. ASUS and Surface images are now merged into the mainline builds, simplifying maintenance. ASUS users lose asusctl but retain RGB brightness and power controls, while Z13 owners keep fan-curve options through the handheld daemon.
LatencyFleX has been removed due to redundancy with AMD Anti-Lag, and the KDE Wallpaper Engine Plugin was dropped for stability reasons, though it can still be reinstalled via command line.
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