A Bigger-than-Usual Bazzite Update: Bazaar, Wi-Fi Fixes, and Fedora Fallout

Bazaar Image credit to Universal Blue Discord

Bazzite usually gets updates just about every week, but this one stands out — with a new curated app store, Wi-Fi stability improvements, and some welcome clarity around 32-bit support.

Bazaar App Store (Flatpak Focused)

The biggest feature this week is Bazaar — a native curated app store built right into Bazzite’s desktop mode. It’s Flatpak-based and designed to make discovering installable apps easier, faster, and cleaner than searching Flathub manually. Think: essential tools, popular game launchers, utilities — all without the fluff.

This also brings the return of the Bazzite Portal, meant to guide users through setup on a new install.

It feels like a big step toward making Bazzite more turnkey for couch setups.

Wi-Fi Improvements

This release also includes support for IWD (iNet Wireless Daemon), a more modern Wi-Fi stack that solves connection flakiness on some mesh networks.

You’ll now have the option to switch from wpa_supplicant to IWD on install. It’s opt-in, but for some setups, it’ll mean more reliable connectivity and fewer headaches out of suspend.

32-bit Fedora Drama — Sorted (For Now)

There was a brief scare a week or two ago when Fedora maintainers floated a proposal to drop support for 32-bit userspace. The community (and Bazzite’s founder) pushed back hard — citing breakage of key projects like Steam and Proton.

The proposal has since been retracted, and Bazzite is actively working with Fedora contributors going forward. No action needed for users, but it’s worth noting as it could’ve broken a lot of setups.

Final Thoughts

Between Bazaar, improved Wi-Fi, and tighter alignment with Fedora, this week’s update reinforces Bazzite’s direction: give users more polish and less friction. No bold claims or big splashes — just solid progress in making couch-ready Linux feel seamless.

To take a look at the full post head over to https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-july-2025-update-bazaar-z13-kernel-6-15-steam-hardware-survey/9501 to read it straight from Bazzite's founder, and check out some excellent YouTube videos from one of my favorite creators in the Linux space that got to sit down and talk to the founder of Bazzite about the 32-bit Fedora debacle as well as where Bazzite is headed in the future.