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That is not relevant here in any way. That's a distro made to easily run one app at a time without really caring about data security w.r.t. that app.
He specifically mentions containerization, Flatpaks, Docker and Toolboxes, which these suggested Fedora Spins are designed to integrate with as tightly as possible, so completely relevant.
Also, Bazzite is completely the opposite of an OS designed to run one app at once, which means you haven't tried it before rubbishing it as a suggestion.
p.s. Don't take this the wrong way but the phrasing in your comments here make them sound quite aggressive and could lead them to be interpreted in the wrong way. Would you speak to someone like that on the street?
I hate to be that guy but OP gave no indication of their gender. English has the luxury of having a "natural" neutral pronoun; please just use that.
Could you explain what exactly this "tight integration" pertains? AFAIK these are just regular old global-state distros but with read-only snapshotting for said global state (RPM-ostree, "immutable").
Read-only global system configuration state in pretty much requires usage of Flatpak and the like for user-level package application management because you aren't supposed to modify the global system state to do so but that's about the extent that I know such distros interact with Flatpak etc.
That is their one and only stated goal: Run games.
I don't know about you but I typically only run one game at a time and have a hard time imagining how any gaming-focused distro would do it any other way besides running basic utilities in the background (i.e. comms software.).
Obviously you can use it to do non-gaming stuff too but at that point it's just a regular old distro with read-only system state. You can install Flatpak, distrobox etc. on distros that have mutable system state too for that matter.
Could you point out the specific concrete things Bazzite does to improve separation between applications beyond the sandboxing tools that are available to any distribution?
It's true that I haven't used Bazzite; I have no use for imperative global state distributions and am capable of applying modifications useful for gaming on my own. It's not like I haven't done my research though.