github.com/MatrixDJ96/bazzite-mx
bazzite
MX

A curated spin of Bazzite — a KDE Plasma, container-first dev & sysadmin workstation, shipped as a signed bootc atomic image you boot into and stop thinking about.

Not an app or a dotfiles dump — it's the build recipe. It layers curated fixes and tools onto upstream Bazzite and publishes signed images on GHCR. You don't clone it to run it; you rebase your machine onto the image it produces.

Rebase your machine — pick the variant for your GPU

❯ sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/matrixdj96/bazzite-mx:stable

Then reboot to boot into the new image.

NVIDIA GPU? Swap the image name: bazzite-mx-nvidia (proprietary driver) or bazzite-mx-nvidia-open (open kernel modules, Turing+).

You just pulled :stable — the everyday image. Want changes earlier? Use :testing instead. Both stay current on their own, refreshing within an hour of any upstream Bazzite update.

Built for one maintainer's machine, in the open so every choice is auditable — rebase at your own risk.

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Adds, never imposes

Bazzite does the heavy lifting; this layer only smooths the rough edges and fills real gaps — never fonts, themes, or opinions forced on you.

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Atomic-correct by construction

Everything is baked and verified at build time. Nothing leans on fragile first-boot mutations of a read-only /usr.

03

Built on giants

Bazzite is the foundation — without it this wouldn't exist. The sharpest ideas are borrowed from Aurora, Bazzite-DX, and AmyOS.

what you actually get

Everything Bazzite does — plus a workstation that just works

You keep all of Bazzite — the KDE Plasma desktop, Steam gaming, and atomic updates you can roll back anytime. On top, bazzite-mx quietly fixes the rough edges and adds the tools you reach for the moment you go beyond gaming.

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01

Containers, both ways

Docker and Podman both work out of the box, sockets enabled — start a container without first fighting groups and permissions.

Docker CE · Podman · sockets on
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Windows VMs that just boot

A full virtualization stack is live on first boot, with TPM 2.0 so Windows 11 installs without the “doesn't meet requirements” wall — no setup ritual.

libvirt · virt-manager · TPM 2.0
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A tinker-ready dev kit

VSCode that won't fight the read-only system, password-free git through the keyring, and a deep tracing toolkit for when you want to look under the hood.

VSCode · keyring git · tracing tools
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Firefox, the native way

Firefox straight from Mozilla instead of a sandboxed Flatpak — system fonts, the keyring, and native messaging all just work.

Mozilla RPM · no Flatpak
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Disk tools, restored

The graphical partition manager Bazzite removed is back — so you're never stuck dropping to the terminal just to resize a disk.

gparted · GUI partitions
opt-in · one command each

Extras you turn on only if you want them

Nothing here is preloaded — the base image stays lean. Each extra is a single ujust recipe you run when you actually need it.

★MSI fan controlflagship

Stock Bazzite can't drive recent MSI EC firmware — this bakes in the current msi-ec + acpi_ec modules; enabling layers the MControlCenter GUI.

❯ ujust setup-msi
1Password

The desktop app and CLI, set up with the official key.

❯ ujust install-1password
Sunshine

Low-latency game streaming, enabled only when asked.

❯ ujust setup-sunshine
always fresh, always yours

Updates that just show up — safely

You never chase releases. When upstream Bazzite updates, a new signed image is ready within the hour — you pull it whenever you like, and roll back anytime if you need to.

01Bazzite updatesupstream ships a new release
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02Rebuilt for youwithin the hour, automatically
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03Every GPUnon-NVIDIA & NVIDIA images
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04Signedverified for trust with cosign
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05You upgradepull it with bootc upgrade

Want to check it yourself? Verify any image against the public key

❯ cosign verify --key cosign.pub ghcr.io/matrixdj96/bazzite-mx:latest