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Going to test bazzite - what should I know? (piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago by ButteryMonkey@piefed.social to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Greetings!

I’m rebuilding my old gaming-focused beast. I’ve got parts coming today (new mobo, cpu, ram, and cooling unit, everything else I hope to reuse, to keep this cheap as possible), and I’ll be building it up tomorrow (thermal paste arrives tomorrow 😭)

I have no need for this computer to do anything but gaming, as I have others that can’t handle gaming for that. So I’m thinking a gaming-focused distro would be good. However this is nowhere near top of the line hardware, I’m aiming to run mostly cpu-heavy games (stuff like rimworld and oxygen not included), as I really like having way too much going on at once. So maybe that changes things.

I’ve had an absolute hell of a time getting games to run through lutris on stock Ubuntu. I’m hoping bazzite will improve that somewhat. It probably won’t.

But I understand it’s fedora based, which is a big new thing for me as I’ve only messed with Debian-based. And there’s probably a lot I’ve not considered.

So what do I need to know? What would be helpful to know before I start this? Any good resources you can point me toward for gaming on bazzite, like install troubleshooting guides or something that might make this less of a nightmare? (Seriously I can only get a handful of games installed that should be able to run, and that’s with an absolute ton of effort, very frustrating.)

Thanks in advance!

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[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For installing games i recommend looking at protondb, it will show you if a game will run/what fixes it needs. Where are you getting your games from? For I steam you should have a good experience with the official client, for Epic/GOG/Amazon I recommend Heroic (though lutris is fine too). If you use a other launcher your experience will be probably be suboptimal.

Bazzite is based on Fedora Atomic, so you will probably not be interacting with that part of the system at all. The official Bazzite docs are pretty good for general stuff, I also found gardiner bryants guide(s) to be helpful for getting started. If you have questions here is !bazzite@lemmy.world, however it's not that active so I'd post to a more general linux community aswell

[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really appreciate those links! That will be super helpful, I’m sure!

My games are unofficial, as I had them on steam and lost access to the account (ex changed all the data and locked me out) but can’t afford to buy them again so..

Is heroic the same sort of thing as lutris? Like it has all the interfaces for installing and stuff?

[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah heroic is very similar. Bazzite officially recommend Heroic for Epic, GOG and Amazon and Lutris for everything else, but Heroic has a simpler experience imo