Bazzite 44.20260921 lands with a batch of hardware compatibility fixes that should make life easier for Linux gamers dealing with stubborn wireless cards and racing peripherals. The update restores Broadcom WL drivers (broadcom-wl 6.30.223.271 and kmod-wl), bringing back out-of-the-box support for Broadcom WiFi chipsets that are still common in older laptops and desktop PCIe cards. A separate fix adds udev rules to disable the d3cold power state on Intel AX200 and AX210 WiFi adapters, addressing a bug where those cards would segfault and cause instability on suspend and resume, particularly on handheld devices.
Sim racers on Linux get a targeted fix in this build: hid_logitech is now blacklisted so the community new-lg4ff driver can properly handle Logitech racing wheels without conflicts. The Gamescope compositor was rolled back from 3.16.29 to 3.16.28, likely to address stability regressions, while the Gamescope Session received a fresh snapshot. The Sunshine game streaming setup has also been refactored to prefer the Homebrew stable channel, which now supports XDG paths and should be a smoother experience for most users.
Underneath, the release ships kernel 7.2.4, Mesa 26.2.2, Nvidia Open 615.71.09, and Nvidia LTS 580.178.04 on the 6.18.49 LTS kernel. Desktop users get GNOME 50.4 and KDE 6.7.5, and the handheld stack includes InputPlumber 0.81.0, OpenGamepadUI 0.46.1, Cardwire 0.12.3, and UMU Launcher 1.4.4. Two VVC-related codec libraries (uvg266-libs and vvdec-libs) have been removed from the image. Existing users can pull the update with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase stable or pin to this specific build with bazzite-rollback-helper rebase 44.20260921.
