# Bazzite ships with telemetry enabled

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/bazzite-ships-with-telemetry-enabled/27283
**Category:** General
**Tags:** video, os
**Created:** 2025-05-04T20:12:25Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @rescuer-phoniness — 2025-05-04T20:12:25Z

> **[Bazzite Linux is Spying on you and WINNING at the same time? What?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkUrdQATSI)**
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> Bazzite Data Post: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/steamos-like-bazzite-linux-has-some-nice-growth-thanks-to-great-handheld-pc-support/Fedora Count Me ...

You can see this guy going over it here. It also seems the other atomic desktops also ship with it enabled.

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## Post 2 by @CarefulMouse — 2025-05-04T20:36:43Z

Am I understanding correctly that Fedora systems report back a usage analytic?

To disable that the following is run for Atomic versions:

OStree:

> systemctl mask --now rpm-ostree-countme.timer

Additional details:

> […] we estimate installed Fedora systems by counting unique IP addresses which show up in our updates mirror statistics."

> **[Changes/DNF Better Counting - Fedora Project Wiki](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting)**

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## Post 3 by @crossroads — 2025-05-05T04:01:35Z

> [@rescuer-phoniness](#):
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> It also seems the other atomic desktops also ship with it enabled.

And that’s perfectly fine. Telemetry is not spying if done correctly, and in FOSS & Linux world, it usually is.

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## Post 4 by @username0990 — 2025-05-05T06:09:11Z

> **[Linux Overview - Privacy Guides](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/linux-overview/#system-counting)**
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> Linux is an open-source, privacy-focused desktop operating system alternative, but not all distribitions are created equal.