As opposed to SteamOS, It allows you to layer packages which will be kept on system upgrades(like the VPN software we were talking about now); allows you to use GNOME for a desktop environment which is more touch-friendly; uses a newer overall kernel version with some gaming-focused patches like the BORE CPU scheduler; allows you to easily rollback to and pin any amount of known good OS versions; upgrades everything at once with one button(including Flatpaks and Distrobox containers); comes with Distrobox preinstalled(which gives you access to AUR packages if you want to); includes many useful
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commands like ujust install-resolveujust install-resolve that's being worked on to install DaVinci Resolve with one command
As for the downsides, updates are currently a large download because of a limitation with ostree(which manages updates) that's being worked on. They shouldn't take more disk space though because you only keep two system deployments by default.
bazzite uses rpm-ostree but the distribution method is native containers which deltas aren't really working for right now, so you end up basically redownloading the whole system on updates
Downloading bazzite now for my steam deck oled. Can't wait. good thing steam backs up all my saves so Im not worried about redownloading my games. 1GB download speeds lol