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Anyone using Bazzite for gaming?

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Just curious if anyone is using Bazzite for gaming. https://bazzite.gg/

It's an interesting install, where you select your hardware after selecting some drop down fields, then it selects the best ISO for download. If you are using Bazzite for gaming, how does it perform?
 
Immutable distro's may be the way of the future due to security and stability advantages, however IMO they've got a long way to go if Flatpak/Snap is the only method of software installation. Not all applications work well in Snap/Flatpak containers.
 
Appears to be another Fedora based distro... curious to how this compares to Nobara.
Asking for an RTX friend of mine lol
 
I prefer EndeavourOS (Arch) for gaming on my desktop & laptop. I still utilize Flatpak & AppImage apps in case something doesn't compile right or blows up about a new dependency version incompatibility.

You could technically run one of the SteamOS 3.x clones/mods to see if that's a good experience, too. My Steam Deck has been running great with v3.6, btrfs/f2fs, & Cryo Tools optimization.
 
Bazzite is my favorite distro. I have had a HTPC/gaming PC connected to TV for a decade or more. Been on and off Linux since old Mandrake/Mandriva, but for HTPC, I have used primarily windows. A few years ago, I installed ChimeraOS, using HTPC as console PC. Since I have used Nvidia for many generations now, I had to use Intel iGPU for compositor and Nvidia GPU as renderer in ChimeraOS. This method got borked around v39 I think it was, so back to windows.

Since then, I decided to make an all AMD build and installed ChimeraOS again (easy and nice Steam console OS). But, it was too locked and I had a noisy 6950 XT GPU. Could not install Lact without it getting flushed in the next update. Bazzite is atomic and not completly immutable with build-in support for lact. This have now been running for a long time. Its the HTPC distro with KDE desktop, booting directly to Steam. Everything can be controlled with a gamepad. Update is a one click solution. It cannot do everything windows can do, but as a console os, its way more comfortable. Since its all AMD, it took almost no time to setup and get running. Feature rich also with Decky loader plugins. Very nice to come home, start machine and its ready to play without any nagging about updating drivers, windows and so on.

Because of the Atomic nature with the possibility to roll back if an update goes wrong, I decided to use Bazzite as a daily driver also on my main system. It has a Nvidia card, so experiences before has been a mixed bag, specially during kernel updates. Now I can avoid downtime if this occurs. Recently, I deleted windows partition and only use windows in a VM for light home office work that require Office 365. I have a laptop which I use for work with Win 11 and a RTX 4070 if I need for VR especially. When I have time, I will try ALVR with Quest 3 and see if it can be sufficient for those cases too.

I have no hate for windows, but its become too noisy with all the updates, telemetry, pop-ups and installs. I feel the system is working against me so much of the time and too much energy goes towards updating, debloating and silencing notifications. There are many sacrifices moving to Linux, but at the same time, the OS stays the same until I choose to update or make changes. Its a bliss with Bazzite. I can change it enough to make it comfortable to use and at the same time its hard to break if I make changes. Now its fun again to start my main computer and just use it. No nagging from OS and bloatware. All the games I have used works without much hazzle and those that have anti-cheat which is not compatible with Linux is a sacrifice worth taking for me.

So far, I have no desire to reinstall Windows or do any distro hopping. :)
 
Tamlin_WSGF said:
All the games I have used works without much hazzle and those that have anti-cheat which is not compatible with Linux is a sacrifice worth taking for me.
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I'm reading good things about Mint, Nobara and Bazzite, i'm just trying to decide which to try.

So what did not work with Bazzite?
 
The amount of games that seem to work fine with Cachy looks nice, and it seems like Cachy might be the most efficient/best fps.

I've been using Gimp for years, and have been slowly learning Blender, so very happy with them!
 
Just installed Bazzite on an extra system here with a 8500G and a 6750XT. Runs very well so far. First time using a Linux based system ever for me.
 
When I was distro-shopping gaming distros last year, I used Bazzite for a while but settled on Nobara.

But honestly it feels like a placeholder until SteamOS gets its big release.
 
Had Bazzite installed on my main desktop for a bit, but found it kinda janky when using it as a desktop. Hard to explain, just general unresponsiveness, might be Nvidia GPU related, but I didn't really want to put that much effort into figuring it out. Bazzite has been great on my ROG Ally - which I exclusively use as a gaming machine.

I switched over to Linux Mint a few days ago for my desktop and it's been a great experience so far. I've been watching Youtube guides following community threads and have gotten my install to a pretty comfortable place. Probably my favourite thing about Linux compared to Windows, is that with Windows I'm constantly removing features/apps I don't want whereas with Linux I'm adding features/apps that I want.

Haven't had much opportunity to game on this PC - Kingdom Come Deliverance played flawlessly but Baldur's Gate 3 had a weird minimizing issue that I fixed by rolling back to a previous Nvidia driver.
 
SeymourGore said:
Had Bazzite installed on my main desktop for a bit, but found it kinda janky when using it as a desktop. Hard to explain, just general unresponsiveness, might be Nvidia GPU related, but I didn't really want to put that much effort into figuring it out. Bazzite has been great on my ROG Ally - which I exclusively use as a gaming machine.

I switched over to Linux Mint a few days ago for my desktop and it's been a great experience so far. I've been watching Youtube guides following community threads and have gotten my install to a pretty comfortable place. Probably my favourite thing about Linux compared to Windows, is that with Windows I'm constantly removing features/apps I don't want whereas with Linux I'm adding features/apps that I want.

Haven't had much opportunity to game on this PC - Kingdom Come Deliverance played flawlessly but Baldur's Gate 3 had a weird minimizing issue that I fixed by rolling back to a previous Nvidia driver
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Probably the KDE GSP firmware bug under Nvidia hardware. You can't resolve it using the open drivers, and being immutable Bazzite probably doesn't allow for the proprietary drivers to be installed so that you can disable GSP firmware.

Oddly enough, running KDE Neon I don't encounter the GSP firmware bug. I have GSP firmware enabled and get none of the desktop jankiness.
 
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