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SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux has some nice growth thanks to great handheld PC support (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I built a steam gaming PC for my livingroom using Bazzite, a minisforum BD790i, and a Radeon 7800xt. I love it and there is NO going back for me at this point.

(P.S. Decky Gen plugin fixes a lot of weird issues on games that support DLSS by letting you slip in far 3.1 or XESS in it's place + frame gen. I've even been able to get ray tracing running decently with this method)

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's nice even on the Deck if you want a bit more customisability. It also fixed an issue with Pipewire a few versions back with my somewhat non-standard config, although it's probably fixed with SteamOS by now.

[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does it have Plasma 6.3? I tried customizing some panels on Steam Deck again and 5.x is such a step back in that regard.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends on which stream you choose. Latest and stable-daily have it now. Stable will have it tomorrow.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

I use Bazzite on my main laptop, and it's awesome. Took some adjustment to get used to immutable, but now I really like it. Incredibly stable and basically impossible to break (just reboot, and good as new).

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm using Bazzite and was very happy until past day update. My wine games stopped working, everything else is perfect, but something messed up with wine

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago

Consider trying a rollback of you encounter issues, that's a big geature of what makes the atomic distros so good

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it giving you an error code? Could probably google it to figure out what package is affecting it and then roll that back if you are. If launching something normally isn't throwing a code, try launching from the terminal and see if it gives you anything useful to put into a search engine

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Used to run for a couple of minutes, then something happens and the controller isn't recognized anymore.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My question remains, are you getting an error code? If so, google it. If not, launch from a terminal and see if you get one in there and then google it

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I nuked the installation. Hopped for a couple of distros but they didn't worked as nice as bazzite so I installed it back and is working alright. Even the wine games. Thanks for the interest btw, next time I'm waiting before re installing. On the tested games, only The jackbox party pack is not working properly, but that one never worked before.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've only been using Linux for around a year in total, so I've done plenty of "fuck this issue, where's a 'just works' distro" hops lol. I still check out other distributions occasionally to see how they are, but I've been trying to grow accustomed to just googling anything the computer tells me that I don't understand. If it throws a code at me, I wanna know what that code is.

Getting into this habit has made it a lot easier to just say "why are you being stupid? Let me make you not stupid and go about my business" a lot more often

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 4 days ago

I'm being using Linux for like 15 years now, but this is the first time I use something different that Debian based. I being using Bazzite for like a month, so I had no problem with just go back to zero bow with a little more experience.

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Works great on my main PC. I have some legacy hardware, a 12 year old PC I shoved a gtx970 into, and I cannot seem to get Bazzite running on it. It would run Win10 and most modern titles well enough to let the kiddo play on it, so this is disappointing. Maybe I need a different distro for something so old?

[–] caseyclysm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe Bazzite uses the open kernel driver, which requires a 1600 series card or newer. For a gtx970, you'll need to use the proprietary driver. Most distros support it

[–] equivocal@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Correct, but that is why there are two different Nvidia images, bazzite-nvidia and bazzite-nvidia-open. OP just needs to use bazzite-nvidia for the older/legacy cards.

[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I thought I did, they had a drop down menu to select based on my card. Maybe I screwed that up, will double check, thanks

[–] equivocal@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

You probably did but, there are two Nvidia entries. I'm assuming you downloaded the one under Modern GPUs because it makes sense for your main PC, but a GTX 970 would need the entry that is under Older/Legacy GPUs.