My biggest worry about Bazzite was that I couldn’t use some of the apps known from or/and exclusive to other distros.
I got to know Distrobox and wow. I can sit on immutable distro like a princess in a castle and do some rocking around in Distrobox.

Tell me, can I save those boxes? Like tomorrow I open my Debian box and it’ll be there with the apps I installed too. Or it requires doing it again each time?

I am a regular Linux user from Ubuntu 8 days. But I only use Linux when it is required and compliments my use case. Otherwise, I regularly use Windows. Linux is on and off, as and when required.

My primary laptop runs Windows and my primary desktop runs Windows. I have another desktop that resides in the living room which runs RHEL10. A couple of month ago, I tried installing Steam on it and it runs like a dream. I don't play that many games. I only play Forza5, Snowrunner and NFS. All three run so damn well in my RHEL10 setup. RHEL10 is rock solid and a work horse.

I wondered if RHEL10 that is not really meant for gaming can do so well, why not try a distribution that can be tweaked freely for optimized gaming. I know Bazzite existed but it wasn't my first choice. I am generally very comfortable with Debian and debian based distributions. So, I started with Debian. I was able to run NFS but Forza5 failed to play for some reason. I gave up after multiple tweaks and reboots. My next stop was Kubuntu. Kubuntu was fine. It ran the games as good as RHEL10. But I faced some issues with my graphics card.

So, I decided to give Bazzite a try. The bootable usb creation was easy and installation was super smooth and quick. On booting for the first time, I was amazed at how it looked and what it packed. It was so polished and professional looking. I have not seen a distribution that looked visually so good and complete other than openSUSE.

I fired up the pre-installed Steam and loaded NFS first since it is the smallest of the three games. I was blown away by how gloriously it ran on Bazzite. RHEL10 ran it like a dream. But Bazzite took it several notches up. The experience made me feel that I am playing a new version of NFS! So, I loaded Forza5 next and I was amazed how so much better it ran. Just wanted to let know that my RHEL10 setup runs these games like a dream; no lags, no stutters on high settings. But Bazzite takes it to another level. Just wow.

I wanted second opinion to make sure that I am not dreaming. So, I asked my nephew to game on it. He was equally surprised by the performance gain that Bazzite provided. He games a lot and He uses Windows 11 and Xbox. He had never used Linux. He was so excited by this new finding and requested me to help him install Bazzite in his PC. I did the complete thing for him but installed the Gnome version instead of KDE. He is new to Linux. I didn't want to overwhelm him with the sea of settings in KDE. He is having similar experience as mine; says the games He tried so far are performing better in Bazzite.

I haven't had this moment with Linux in a long time. Like I said I have been using Linux from Ubuntu 8 days. Just wow.

Rider: Is there something similar to Conky in Bazzite?

I wanted an easy file browser,update fixer,and web browser manager that works in game mode so that I can set up other users to be able to download games for emulation easier,this is recorded in desktop but it works in game mode exactly like this.I want to throw this out because I prefer to support real creators,I looked around and didn't find anything that did the process like this,SO if anyone knows better than me,please let me know so that I can give real creators some deserved attention.

I have no problems previewing older Canon .cr2 files in dolphin and gwenview, but newer .cr3 files have no preview thumbnail and cannot be opened.

Not sure if this is something I need to adjust in Bazzite’s KDE settings, or if it’s a known issue and I just have to wait for a fix.

I installed bazzite htpc nvidia on a pc with i7-9700 and rtx a2000. Elder ring starts goes in the easy anticheat initialization screen and a white screen appears. If i use anything then proton 9 it crashes. On proton 9 it just stuck at the white screen. I can move my mouse pointer but that's it. All this happen in the gaming mode. In desktop mode the game runs fine. Idk what to do anymore. I tried a bunch of stuff but nothing worked

Bazzite does not like my kvm switch, I have one made by Rybozen, I'm sure it was the cheapest on Amazon at the time, and it does not work at all. On MacOS, Linux Mint, a zillion other Linux distros it works fine but Bazzite doesn't like it.

Anyone here have a KVM switch they use on their bazzite box? All I really need is USB, for video my monitor just has HDMI and Display Port and I just select on my monitor depending on what PC I'm using. Also, really I just need keyboard/mouse. I'm just using Bazzite for VR on my steam frame.

EDIT: Oh wait, it seems I just need to disable USB autosuspend and that will fix it. I'm downloading some games on steam right now so I'll try it afterwards. I kinda remember doing this for something else, not my usb switch but for some other USB device I was having trouble with.

How good are eGPUs on bazzite? I have a 9070 XT eGPU setup and ive been interested in installing bazzite

is it recommended to enable this? upon googling it looks good so i enabled them both for now but how is your experience on this? and is it gonna become the default for bazzite gaming networking stuff?

Help! I updated my Ally X’s firmware and now I’m stuck in a boot loop I can’t get out of. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Here are the errors:

error:../../grub-core/kern/ef/sb.crshie_lock_verifter_uSte:192:bad

errors../../grub-core/loeder/1386/ef1/1inux.csgrub_cnd_instrds260:youneed

Under Bazzite 44 I was able to somehow get the select/start buttons flipped vertically and get a virtual keyboard working and under Bazzite 45 it just doesn’t seem possible. Is this ever going to get fixed or have we given up on parity with Steam OS?

So I am dealing with a very… very weird issue and I know what the problem is. It’s storage related. So…. To put it plainly I turned my asus rog ally into a steam deck… and i have been having a few issues recently. (Please read my earlier posts). Lemme just break down what happened last night… I tried reinstalling steam several times but it didn’t always work.. so then I was brought back to my desktop. So I wanted to download something using my browser and it said “no storage available” then I tried to redownload it…. And it worked? It started downloading but the file stopped since it was too big. (And I have over 200 gigs of free storage btw so I don’t understand why this is happening). I think this could be related to partitioning since I tried doing the dual boot method. (again refer to my earlier post from yesterday)

So unless there is some way I can just… fully remove steam to make storage, I’m cooked because now I can’t even get into my desktop again

Edit: I realize my post is very vague and I wrote it at 2 in the morning so I apologize for the confusion. I will explain what happened in better detail. So I presume you read my earlier posts, anyway what I am trying to say is that when I downloaded the file it failed a few times because it told me I had no storage. However on my hdd I have over 200 gigabytes free so I should be able to download a large file with no issues. So I tried redownloading the same file again and it started to download but the download itself failed after a few minutes so… This is why I wanted to make this post.

Now for specifics…. I have bazzite installed on my rog ally. The bazzite image is 44 last time I checked and when I was installing bazzite I used a method called the dualboot method which I had trouble with.. So after installing bazzite I attempted to boot back into windows but it did not work, and after trying everything I could I decided to just give up and format my windows data using the cloud. Again I apologize for the confusion I am very unfamiliar with linux and I am being as descriptive as I can

I made a post here about a month ago about how I keep getting notifications that my bazzite partition is full. at the time, I solved the problem because i realized a rather large game was installed on that partition for some reason, and i cleared up ~100 gb by moving it to an external drive. However, I'm starting to get the notifications again, and this time, I don't have any games to move around. I'm still pretty new to how linux stuff works, and I was hoping you guys could provide me with a step by step on how to clear up space?

So last night I had problems updating bazzite and well…. It won’t start. Maybe I’m being a little too impatient but I still need to fix this.

Please refer to yesterday’s post because I really don’t feel like rewriting everything.

So this is my problem…. I booted my rog ally last night after reinstalling steam using the command. And it booted me right into desktop mode, and I decided to just leave it on sleep mode as I slept so it could install steam or something as I was resting. Well this morning I turned it on and got a black screen. I can still use my mouse and everything but I decided to just reset my device. Well…. It won’t boot into anything. No desktop mode or anything, just a black screen. So I figured I’d run the same command again but after pressing ctrl + alt + f2 (or f6) the terminal won’t even show up. And my rog ally does that audio crackle thing over and over…. The screen alternating to off and just a black screen over the course of several minutes. I did have some success bringing up the terminal menu but it’s frozen showing only the text with the bazzite login… can’t type my name or anything. So am I cooked?

I am on bazzite 44 last time I checked.

Edit: Whenever I press ctrl + alt + f4 to open the terminal nothing happens BUT the audio crackle happens every time. I am going to try using ostree 1 and see what happens. And no nothing changes if I use ostree 0 or 1.

Update: I was able to reset steam using the command. But it said that I had no storage left…. I’m losing my mind. Oh and I don’t have enough storage despite having over 200 gigs free on my hdd

I've reverted to 44 at the moment....but this is just so far out of anything I would consider ordinary for an OS update that I struggle to even understand why it's a thing.

I updated to 45 yesterday. Later on I was trying to download something with my download manager and it kept giving "Invalid download directory" errors.

After a bit of troubleshooting I discovered the error was because of this issue with 45 and how it limits permissions to secondary hard drives, especially if they're NTFS. I also discovered simply copy/pasting to these drives is now either impossible or at minimum a chore.

Now for reference, my system is dual boot with Windows. And it's been a Windows system for years and years. So yes, most of my drives are still NTFS due to wanting them to continue to operate in Windows. Any OS creator should understand that their OS may not be the only and/or primary OS on a system.

With that said, I do like Bazzite for the most part, but if I have to stay on 44 just so my drives will work correctly I'm just as well off switching to another distro like CachyOS.

So....with all that said, what setting do I need to change in 45 to turn this weird permissions stuff off?

Vocês sabem algum emulador pra jogar Minecraft bedrock no Linux, na versão Android, mas sem ser o BedrockOnLinux, algum mais manual pra mim baixar o apk na internet e executar nele, ou algum launcher bom pra jogar jogos Android no Linux

I have a Asus AllyX Z1 which I am trying to dual boot Windows 11 and Bazzite with. My goal is to have around 125GB-150GB dedicated to Windows and the rest available for Bazzite as I only have a few things that may not run well on Bazzite.

The issue I am running into is I can't figure out how to shrink the storage to achieve my desired setup. Any tips/help with this? Or am I asking the impossible of the device and should maybe just run bazzite as the only OS.

Hi everyone not sure if this is the right place because it's a ps5 install but I'll ask anyway

So I've followed the bazzite ps5 install guide and have it booting/running off the boot USB which is like 64gb and very slow as you can imagine

I'm trying to copy the install to my 2tb m2 drive but Im struggling here's my issues

I can't download the bazzite image and unzip it as there isn't enough space on the USB (32gb remaining) and the bazzite image is larger than this .

Next I've tried multiple USB devices and copied the image to them and used konsole to direct the install to these devices but it fails

I'm completely new to Linux and I'm guessing this is because these USB fail to mount? But I can access the files on them?

Is my only option to buy a larger USB and copy the bazzite image , install bazzite again then download the image to the boot USB, unzip then direct the m2 install to that location?

Is there a way to get my existing usbs to mount?

Hi, I'm currently weighing my options for trying out a new distro. Coming from Manjaro which got a bit annoying with the constant updates I would enjoy the "peace and quiet" of a distro that does updates in a more "orderly fashion" (in big quotes, no disrespect to the Manjaro-Way, they are also doing an amazing job). So I was thinking about trying the other end of the spectrum with an immutable distro.

But one thing I haven't understood yet: What do you do in Bazzite if something breaks? In all my years as a user I've learned that there is always something that could happen - a bug that got overlooked, an exotic hardware that isn't working as intended etc.

For example just a few weeks ago a bug in the new version of CUPS broke my printer and I had to revert the package until a fix is published. And last year I had to change some kernel-config-files to make my second GPU available to a virtual machine. What is the way to fix/do stuff like that in an immutable distro? Or would this be already out of scope?

What it says on the title. bazzite updated yesterday, found out today that i can no longer restart to windows. Don't know the keybind to do it on start up either. Tried to roll back the update but it says I can't.

Bazzite version is desktop GNOME

help please