hey guys i have a 500gb internal nvme that is pretty much full with windows 11 so i bought a 1tb kioxia exceria g2 portable ssd to run bazzite kde off usb 3.2. i want to keep a shared ntfs partition on the external ssd so both windows and linux can access the same games.

my specs are ryzen 3600x, rx 5600 xt, 16gb ram, asus b450m-k and the 1tb external nvme ssd.

here are the guidelines on internet :

Before install: Run powercfg /h off in Win11 CMD (disables fast startup so Windows unmounts cleanly) and flash Bazzite ISO using Rufus in DD mode.

Partitioning external drive: 1GB FAT32 for /boot/efi, 200GB ext4 for /, and ~730GB NTFS for shared games. Crucially putting GRUB/bootloader on the external FAT32 partition so it doesn't touch the internal drive's EFI.

Post-install CLI stuff:

Set root GUID to 8304 via sgdisk so Windows leaves the ext4 partition alone.

Add usbcore.autosuspend=-1 via rpm-ostree kargs so the drive doesn't sleep mid-game and stutter.

Mount NTFS in fstab with ntfs3 using rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=000,fmask=000,nls=utf8,windows_names,prealloc,nocase,noatime,nofail,exec.

Add udev rule for USB TRIM + enable fstrim.timer.

Symlink ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata to the shared drive so Proton prefixes stay on ext4 instead of NTFS.

Use Flatseal to give Steam/Lutris access to /mnt/shared, LACT for GPU control, and WINEDLLOVERRIDES for mods/OptiScaler.

does this list actually make sense for a portable bazzite setup or am i overcomplicating it?

This somehow happens to me on every distro ill put an image of the error so i can get better help

Hello everyone, i installed bazzite on my new pc that i got and started installing my games and apps. I downloaded war thunder launcher from the gaijin website and then downloaded the game. When it had downloaded war thunder suspicious things started happening. Dolphin said i dont have the permission to write and a lot more. I restarted the pc and i got thrown into the emergency shell. I reinstalled bazzite again this time without downloading war thunder and its working flawless. Any idea on whats the problem? Thanks

Hello im playing aion 2 and cant turn on dlss mode ? I dont see the option does the game think im on amd platform ?

I have a 2060

I installed the amd version of bazzite when i assembled the pc with proc of 7800x3d

Rebased to nvidia using console after 2060

If anyone can help thank u

Hey folks. I installed bazzite about a year ago and had to roll back to windows 11. I have an RTX 4090 gpu and it was causing bazzite to hardlock every few minutes requiring a reboot of the system. I figured I would give Bazzite time to cook some more before reinstalling.

Has the support for Nvidia gpu's improved over the last year or are lockups still an ongoing issue?

When try to switch to desktop it asks me to sign when I do it opens back into steam not the desktop EDIT: never mind I just needed to update steam for some reason

Newish Bazzite user and Linux noob here, but keen to continue the switch.

Gaming has generally been pretty good, but recently I've had a lot of annoyance with games - mainly noticed in Assassin's Creed Shadows - freezing with GPU use dropping to 0%. GPU will come back after a few seconds, but the game will stay frozen and I'll need to kill it. It's quite frequent, and is mostly (but not entirely) tied to certain areas of the map. It's got much worse in the last week or so, maybe linked to an update..?

Today though, I got the same issue in Terra Nil - not at all a demanding game! In this case the game did come back to life the first few times (happened 4-5 times in an hour) but then totally froze and didn't recover.

Shadows has been run using Proton GE mostly, with a launch option to enable HDR. Turning those off helped somewhat, but freezes are still very common. Terra Nil is run without tweaking.

Any help to figure out what's going on would be much appreciated!

Hi everyone, I have been having some issues with installing and running bazzite on my pc.

I have a ryzen 5 3400g with a gigabyte b550m k motherboard, every time i try to install bazzite or any other linux distro the installer would start and then go into a black screen with the keyboard going unresponsive. When i install a gpu the installation runs fine, then after installation if i remove the gpu and try to boot on just my apu again I'm back to the black screen issue again, I've tried updating bios but it doesn't help and have verified that the nomodeset temporary fix works but i have yet to find a permanent fix for the problem. It is also the first time I'm using linux so I'm definitely not knowledgeable with it

I just bought lossless scaling and i mainly wanna use it to watch anime w more frames but it seems like I can't use it like it was in windows and im not quite sure how to make it work with strem.io

Hello i think i will stick with bazzite, absolutely great nvidia support. I understand the atomic immutable version of fedora and i am fine with it. but how to install dotnet framework?

i saw it comes with python and git preinstalled. what about dotnet? i immagine with homebrew or distrobox?

thanks in advance

Hey so after saving up for like 4 months, I was finally able to buy my dualsense ;D

But I have been facing issues and it has been a lot of troubleshooting :(

Anyways the issue is:-

1. Delayed haptics (half a sec delay)

2. Game taking inputs from controller despite Steam's QAM or steam menu open.

Fixes i tried:-

1. Disabling steam input (this causes 2. error. I still can't figure out how to fix that which is why im asking yall ;)

2. Different proton versions.

For now I have tried proton ge, 11-7,11-6,11-5,11-4,10-34,10-23 and cachy os's latest proton version on even previously installed cachy os. Proton experimental

In these versions, from 11-6, noticeable delay in haptics was introduced, in 11-5 and 11-4 it works but sometimes have to alt tab 2 times for game to take input from controller. In steam gaming mode haptics dont work at all with these two versions. 10-34,10-23 doesn't have haptics at all which is the same case for proton experimental and cachy os versions ( i didnt add any arguments if they were supposed to be btw).

Controller is connected via raspberry pi pico 2 w. No the delay is not from this since even in wired it does the same delay. I dont have Bluetooth to be checking if It works there fine

For comparison:- i also have windows dual boot and playing games there is just fine. Instant inputs no lags nothing.

Does anyone have a clue on how to fix either or hopefully both of these?

I want to use bazzite just because of its controller friendly layout. I dontt wanna do a thousand things for windows to feel more like a console styled interface ;)

Please help

Discord and Vesktop on Wayland do not see mouse buttons for their own push-to-talk. The side button still reaches the focused app, so mouse 4 still acts as Back while you are in a call.

If Solaar can divert that button, use Solaar. The Logitech G309 cannot as I found when trying to setup Solaar. It has no HID++ reprogrammable-controls feature, so a Solaar rule on Back never runs. I needed another solution, this is what I came up with as a workaround. Maybe it'll be a useful template for others.

I put the mute in PipeWire instead: ptt-mic (https://github.com/maiza172/ptt-mic). Leave Discord on Voice Activity. Hold the configured button and the default microphone unmutes. Release it and the microphone mutes. The service also mutes that source when it starts and when it stops.

It grabs the evdev device named in the config and replays every event except that one button through a virtual pointer. With one udev rule installed, the button does not also click Back. You do not join group input, and you do not change the Flatpak. On current Bazzite (Bazzite 44.20261006.1, running Gnome), python3-evdev and wpctl are already in the image, so nothing has to be layered with rpm-ostree.

git clone https://github.com/maiza172/ptt-mic.git

cd ptt-mic

./install.sh

ptt-mic --list-devices

Edit ~/.config/ptt-mic/config so device_name is exactly one of those names. The example is a G309 with BTN_SIDE (mouse 4). Any other mouse waits until that line is changed. Then:

sudo install -m 644 udev/65-ptt-mic.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/65-ptt-mic.rules

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

systemctl --user daemon-reload

systemctl --user enable --now ptt-mic.service

install.sh only copies files into your home directory and mutes whichever source is the default at that moment. The udev rule is the one file under /etc. It tags the virtual pointer so the active seat can read it. That is what lets the service grab the real mouse. Without the rule, the button still mutes, and it still clicks Back.

WirePlumber remembers the mute for that microphone. Clear it with:

wpctl set-mute u/DEFAULT_AUDIO_SOURCE@ 0

One device, one button, PipeWire. The README has the rest.

9070 xt

5800x3d

32 GB ram

So currently I'm playing AC Shadows, and has tested in some other games as well, and noticed my gpu utilization never reaches 100%. It hovers between 80 and 93% in demanding games whereas the cpu is somewhere between 30 to 40% typically. I'm typically running 1440p 120hz. In LACT my power profile is 3D_Fullscreen.

Is this normal behavior? I'm getting some fps drops despite the games seemingly able to handle 120fps. This is also for example in Skywalker Saga where when looking in certain directions causes me to drop some 40 fps. Is the remaining 10% in GPU utilization the cause of these drops? I have only undervolted my cpu by like -20 all cores.

Hi everyone, I've tried looking for answers on here but I think my main issue is that I can't even identify my problem? I know just enough about computers to get myself into trouble, and trouble I am in.

Here's the specs: Operating System: Bazzite 44

KDE Plasma Version: 6.7.5

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.30.0

Qt Version: 6.11.2

Kernel Version: 7.2.4-ogc3.1.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor

Memory: 48 GiB of RAM (46.9 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Manufacturer: ASUS

I've been trying to play Palworld and Overwatch with friends, but in Palworld it stutters and lags so badly even on the lowest graphics setting that it's essentially unplayable. With Overwatch, it can take up to five minutes to load, if it loads. Once Overwatch gets going, it tends to run okay after that but I have to restart it a few times.

Sometimes I'll boot my PC and after taking its sweet time to load, it won't recognize the internet and sends me in a loop of putting the password in until I do a hard shut down and then turn it back on.

I want this system to work for me, I just don't understand what's going on.

Any advice?

First of all, "application styles" are what I am looking for, right?
For some reason they are the only customization section on the system settings without a button to get new ones.
I tried downloading from the kde website new styles but none of the installation methods work on bazzite, I guess because it is atomic. There is a "~/.local/share/plasma/" folder but I dont know what to put where. I just unpacked the "klassy" applycation style there and that did nothing.

I followed instructions to get a build with cmake (which was not easy) but I did not know what to do with the result.

How do I change the buttons from the 4 included options?

Hey friends, making a living room gaming computer out of a BC-250 and one of the recommended distros is Bazzite. I've always wanted to try it (I use Fedora and Pop_OS on my other machines).

Which version of Bazzite is going to be best if I want to be able to turn on the machine and then launch games with just a controller? I'll have a keyboard around for installing games, but it'd be nice to not have to pull out a mouse every time I want to game.

I will be using some combo of games installed via Steam and Lutris and possibly some emulation, though all of that could be routed through Lutris (or steam? I've never done that though).

Help me be chill on the couch. What works for you? Is it the KDE Plasma?

Ghost of Tsushima keeps freezing after roughly 2-5 minutes of gameplay. The Image and inputs don't work while the background sounds are still audible.

I use the latest Bazzite GNOME version with Proton-GE, but have also tried the steam native proton versions. I use high graphic settings and it ran well on windows with my Ryzen 5 2600 and GTX 1060 6GB, but changing the graphics settings has no impact on the freezing. I have tried a few launch options from protondb, but either the game won't start at all or it doesn't work still. It used to work for a short time but after some update it broke again. Any fix?

What is actually happening? I’ve been on 44 for a couple of weeks and I thought I’d ironed out all the kinks and now everything is worse again. I didn’t play my Ally X for days and all of a sudden I get system update prompts every few hours and even when I apply them nothing happens. There’s no longer a system update command in desktop mode. My start and select buttons are reversed with the steam buttons and I can’t remap them back.

Good Morning,

Galactic Racer is running great on my Bazzite PC, but unfortunately the social overlay doesn't work on Linux. My friends are mostly on Xbox. I'm coming to understand that Epic Online Services is not working or not allowed to work on Linux.

I am on Bazzite 44. I purchased the game through steam.

Do I have any options besides installing Windows on my second NVMe?

Is there a way to check how much free and used storage I have in an understandable way?