Bazzite

I decided to abandon Windows on my desktop this year. After some searching I ended up with @bazzite
After being a Debian user (server and vm) for a while it’s taken some time to adjust. But I will stick with it to the end of 2026.

I have a system which the on board Bluetooth/wifi is bogus. I've worked around by just getting a Bluetooth USB guy but now I need to disable the on board one in bazzite as it keeps turning itself back on. Anyone familiar enough to help? I searched through BIOS and there isn't an option to disable it there and the gui enable/disable just resets once Bluetooth is either restarted or system restarts. Thanks in advance.

I failed to install Bazzite besides Windows10 (same SSD) and Ubuntu (different SSD). I got the error that grub2-mkconfig exited with code 1. It did not create an entry in my efi partition (checked in Ubuntu and only saw one Ubuntu and one Windows directory). I checked the logfile mentioned in the error dialog, though that basically just said the same. No further information.

As I wanted to overwrite an existing old ubuntu install on that SSD, I chose to install on a shared disk and then reclaimed the storage space by removing the old root and swap partition of the old Ubuntu in the resulting dialog. The partioning for Bazzite is then done automatically on the resulting free space.

Can you help me with this? All I could find online was either not fitting the problem at all and/or showing a totally different install process (probably for old Bazzite versions).

My hardware is rather old. Ryzen5 CPU, SATA SSDs and HDDs and a Geforce 1060 3GB. I hope to now completely ditch Windows with a replacement for gaming.

Thanks in advance for any help with this problem

Hello All. New to linux here. I want to be able to do things I do on Windows like check HWINFO (including fan speeds), run benchmarks, etc. Tools I need to tune PBO, fan curves, and ARGB).

Additionally, I would also like to know how to see Bazzite space from Windows (figured this out with winbtrfs driver), share Steam library, and learn the different ways installing software).

Now, I can search for all this stuff one at a time, but is there a central spot that covers all the newbie (and power-newbie) topics as above?

Hi all, I am ready to break free from consoles and want to run Bazzite on a PC connected to my living room TV. I have questions though about how to deal with multiple people having different profiles and different save files for games, while sharing the same Steam library.

I read that Bazzite Desktop allows for different linux user profiles, but does not boot straight to game mode, whereas Bazzite Deck does not allow multiple linux user profiles, but does boot straight to game mode.

I guess the question is, is it possible to set up things in a console like way where the game library is shared, but each user can have their own separate save files?

Thanks in advance for the help!

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I have been experiencing a horrible laggy stutter at all times during gameplay in several of my games. I mostly focused on a game that I know should run incredibly well, Elite:Dangerous. Elite is also by far the worst offender on my list. Most other games that stutter are minor, but Elite is completely unplayable in any area remotely populated. See this video to demonstrate: (link) This test in this video was done without any Proton flags and was using the default compatibility option, but all of the changes below either completely prevented the game from launching or made it run exactly the same.

It's also worth mentioning that this is the best it gets. In actual missions, it will drop to below 10 FPS average sometimes with half a second between frames. Oddly enough, when increasing the resolution and graphics settings, the performance is almost identical.

My computer was able to run this game at a buttery-smooth ~100+ FPS at 4K Ultra under Windows most of the time and handled VR like a champ. The issue under Proton affects several games. Here are just a few examples of games that should be more than fine on my system and worked well under Windows. I also made sure to let shaders compile both at game launch and in-game if applicable for each of these. The amount of stutter varies wildly from game to game, but these all share similar symptoms:

• Elite:Dangerous
• Spider-Man (Original, MM and 2)
• Forza Horizon 4
• BeamNG.Drive (DirectX and Vulcan)
• Uncharted 4
• GTA V Enhanced
• Planet Coaster 2

I also have several games that run completely fine on Ultra settings or have nearly imperceptible stutter (albeit with some DLSS in places):

• Just Cause 3
• Cyberpunk 2077
• God of War: Ragnarock
• Crysis 2 Remastered
• Teardown
• DiRT 4
• Just about any indie game

otacon@bazzite:~$ fastfetch
                                            otacon@bazzite
     %%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%            
   %%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%             󱋩  bazzite-deck-nvidia:stable 
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%           󰣛  Bazzite
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%###           Linux 6.17.7-ba20.fc43.x86_64
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%%%%%%%######        󰅐  20 hours, 38 mins
  ==                  =======######  
  ==                  =========#####      󰾰  B760I AORUS PRO (-CF)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%%%####======#####     󰻠  12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600K (16) @ 4.90 GHz
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%%%#######=====#####     󰍛  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 [Discrete]
  %%%%%%%%%    %%%#########=====#####       7.09 GiB / 31.09 GiB (23%)
  %%%%%%%%%    %%##########=====#####       1.63 TiB / 1.82 TiB (89%) - btrfs
  %%%%%%%%%====###########=====######     󰍹  3840x2160 @ 60 Hz in 72" [External]
   %%%%%%%%====#########======######      󰖺  Microsoft X-Box 360 pad 0
    %%%%%%%=====#####========######       󰖺  Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller (100%)
     %%%%###===============#######        󰖺  Sony Interactive Entertainment Wireless Controller Motion Sensor)
      %#######==========#########    
        #######################           󰕮  KDE Plasma 6.5.3
          ###################               KWin (Wayland)
              ###########                   bash 5.3.0
                                            Ptyxis 49.2
                                          󰏖  2741 (rpm), 56 (flatpak), 25 (brew)
                                          
otacon@bazzite:~$ MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT=list vulkaninfo
WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : terminator_CreateInstance: Received return code -3 from call to vkCreateInstance in ICD /usr/lib64/libvulkan_dzn.so. Skipping this driver.
selectable devices:
  GPU 0: 10de:2786 "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070" discrete GPU 0000:01:00.0
  GPU 1: 10005:0 "llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.6, 256 bits)" CPU 0000:00:00.0

I'm running Bazzite in desktop mode. I have tried all of the following steps (in Elite) that I came across while trying to solve this on my own to no avail:

• Full system update
• Proton settings:
  • GE Proton 10-17
  • Proton 9 Stable
  • Proton 10 Stable
  • Proton Experimental
  • Tested Flags:
    • PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60
    • DRI_PRIME=1
    • DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.maxDeviceMemory=11000” (I have a 12GB card)
    • mangohud (does not launch)
    • gamemoderun
    • gamescope (does not launch)
• Disabled iGPU
• V-Sync/Frame Limiter On/Off
• Lowered graphics to minimum, set resolution to 1080p
• Fullscreen and Borderless

I have done hours of searching both DDG and Google and have run out of relevant things to search. I've been at this for about a month now with no progress whatsoever. Any help on this would be massively appreciated.

If it wasn't already apparent, I am long-past the point of shotgun troubleshooting and am willing to try just about anything to resolve this.

Edit 1: I just did the UFO Test, and realized that it occasionally has a minor hiccup, but nothing major in windowed mode, but going into fullscreen and moving my mouse around replicates this same stutter that my games experience.

Edit 2: Selaco of all things is experiencing this, a game running in GZDoom. Both OpenGL and Vulcan produce the same result.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39776658

Bazzite is seeing an insane amount of growth right now

Saw it in the issues tab, multiple reports on git. Of course it happens with when I'm showing off the new computer gifted to my friend 😁

Solved

It's the GPU hardware that was the problem 😭. This post can be closed.

But happy ending: replaced the GPU and Bazzite installed flawlessly.

Credit to Clearwater who figured out the real issue early on.

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Possible big update Display port doesn't seem to work. Could it be the GPU? (Tested while Cachy is installed)

Also nvidia-smi did not find anything, so checking drivers now.

I get the following error message:

amd_pstate: failed to register with return -19

And there's more but then the screen turns into a creepy pasta gif looking thing of white and green shifting blocks, except for a few random letters.

But the issue doesn't happen when I used a Garuda xfce I had laying around I used for an older PC (that was maybe too old for Bazzite?). That went into the installer and live iso environment without issues.

It's a newish build I'm making for someone as a gift with the following hardware:

Asus Prime B550M-K AM4 microATX Kingston FURY Beast DDR4 3600 MHz AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AM4

And a used Nvidia RTX 3060ti.

I have secure boot off I think (the Asus EZ bios is weird)

Update

I managed to install it using the text installer, but now it does this:

Then blank screen. Ctrl-Alt-F2 gives me a terminal at least and I did just get-logs which gives me the following:

Is this a Wayland issue?

Update 2:

Not a Wayland issue. But tried installing Fedora Kiinoite to rebase it to Bazzite, but Fedora has the same issue Bazzite did when trying to install, only it doesn't mention the Elf 19 error, and it frezzes allowing me to take a picture:

I really love Bazzite and run it on my own computer, but I'm starting to think it doesn't really run on older desktop hardware.

Update 3: Updating Bios didn't work...

Update 4:

Could not figure out how to install it. Cachy however has installed and loads fast, but also has the 720p porridge issue. Specifically, looks like this:

Wondering if Bazzite isn't installing due to a GPU issue? Would explain why the text installer and terminal only mode worked

Hey everyone, did anyone notice that bazzite-nvidia downgraded it's Nvidia driver with the recent update?

I updated from build 20251118 to 20251126 and noticed that Nvidia drivers for downgraded from 580.105.08 to 580.95.05 in the process.

I only found out because suddenly a game I play stopped working after the bazzite update.

Edit: Opened an issue on GitHub: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/issues/3562

Hey everyone, I’ve got Bazzite installed on my laptop and everything is working great so far. The only issue I’m running into is that the brightness function keys (increase/decrease screen brightness) aren’t doing anything.

Has anyone dealt with this? Any tips on how to properly configure or remap the brightness keys under Bazzite? I don't really know where to start and searching for info hasn't provided anything useful.

Thanks!

EDIT: the laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 330-15ICH

Trying to mount my gfs iPhone to her PC, tried KDE getting an error when trying to open files, what's the EASIEST way to just plug this damn thing in so she can transfer some photos, I'm too drunk for this shit

First, some technical details out of the way:

• OS: Bazzite, should be latest version.
• CPU: Ryzen 5600x
• GPU: Intel Arc A770 16 GB
• RAM: 32 GB DDR 4
• MESA: 25.2.7

When attempting to launch an Unreal Engine game with Proton version above 9.0-4, or Proton Experimental, or above GE-Proton 10-1 I get this crash and error:

!status && "vkQueuePresentKHR"

I've searched for this error and only found some old threads pointing to Steam Overlay being a problem. However, disabling Steam Overlay does not stop this issue.

Some of the UE games I play function on lower versions of Proton, others refuse to launch at all.

What could be causing this issue? What would I do to fix it?

I installed bazzite to replace windows 10 and really liking it so far. I haven't experienced anything major issues wise, and it's working nice with my rtx 2070 for everything I've tried in Steam so far.

The only issue I have now is per the title. I have the PC connected via HDMI to an AV receiver and then to the TV. If I boot the PC without the TV on and input set to PC, the display doesn't trigger when I switch to it afterwards, even if I wiggle the mouse or whatever. It only works if the monitor is ready and waiting before I boot.

Any clues? I am very new to Linux, haven't used it in ages and then not intensively.

I tried installing Stellaris earlier today through my attached GOG account (I would use Heroic, but Heroic has issues with the Stellaris launcher that still haven't been fixed, and I need the launcher), Got as far as "extracting stellaris.sh", and then stopped.

Opened up Lutris with terminal and noticed that it was hanging with a repeating error. Can't find wine, can't open virtual terminal.

Read somewhere that reinstalling Lutris with flatpak would fix that issue. Was pretty sure Lutris would already be a flatpak, since it comes with Bazzite, except...

Bazaar doesn't recognise Lutris. Doesn't show up on my list of installed flatpaks either. RPM doesn't recognise it either. So I can't remove Lutris. And what's more; there doesn't seem to be a flatpak of Lutris available through Bazaar.

What now?

Hey,

I've been using Bazzite for the most time of the year and I am having some stability issues that seem to be connected to KDE Plasma.

On the one hand side KDEs "start menu" (what's it called anyway when not on Windows?) stops working from time to time and doesn't open on click. On the other hand side Plasma Shell occasionally doesn't start correctly resulting in no desktop whatsoever (I can open a terminal with Alt+F2 though) and forcing me to reboot (it may be enough to systemctl restart --user plasma-plasmashell.service but I didn't try this yet)

Long story short: I thought I'd do some trial and error and use Gnome for some time. Turns out switching Desktop Environments on a whim is not compatible with Bazzites immutable design philosophy...

Do you have any ideas apart from completely re-installing?

Hey gang, I've been wanting to pretty up my desktop environment but I can't seem to find anything about using themes for GNOME and I can't get tweaks to install. Anyone have suggestions?

Giving bazzite a test run before deciding to jump ship from windows. Seems great so far but I'm currently hitting a wall. I'm trying to play Liftoff, which requires a drone controller to be plugged in. In order to grant usb privileges (serial port I think), I need to install BETAFPV configurator. That's a deb package so I set up a mint container in distrobox and installed, changed permissions, and exported it. When trying to launch in command line, it says libnss3.so doesn't exist. I downloaded a deb for that library and installed it on the mint container as well, but am still getting the same error.

About to try the windows installer with wine but if anyone can tell me why I'm dumb, that would be fantastic.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36521347

Nexus Gamers are going to test gpus on Linux (Bazzite)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6tQYJSEMw

I convinced my teenage son to install bazzite on his gaming laptop to avoid Windows 11 and he likes it!

The best part: he wanted some game and worked his way through using Wine and Bottle to make it work, all by himself. He told me he feels "a bit like a hacker" now.

Can't tell you how proud this made me.