What’s New & Improved Bazzite is now based on Fedora 45! GNOME 51.1 and KDE 6.8.2 Updated OGC kernels to 7.2.15 and 6.18.60 for NVIDIA LTS images. Mesa 26.2.6. Latest and greatest InputPlumber. Optional gaming networking optimization via bpftune and bpfrag services. ROCM OpenCL is now used over Mesa OpenCL on all non-nvidia images. XWaylandVideoBridge has been removed, fixing an entire class of bugs on our KDE images. Acer Predator Atlas 8 initial support: InputPlumber support, Quick Acce...
Idk if I like bazzite or not. I started my Linux change around 5 months ago I think. Started with cachy os. I think it was going fine but something slowly broke so I changed to bazzite 2 months ago I think.
The fun part is it’s quick to just distro hop. I have my backups all okay so that helps a lot. When everything works both was working fine and easy I feel.
But when something starts to get wonky, I’m kind of struggling a bit more with bazzite due to the atomic nature. Idk that’s just the vibe I’m feeling.
Can I ask about your experience with Cachy? I just finished my first pc build and went with bazzite for gaming, but have been toying with the idea of running Cachy instead
Ive heard very good things about CachyOS, tho I have not personally tried it. Seems to be the gaming distro of choice when people want a more normal linux, aka not atomic.
Yeah I’ve read good things as well. I’m not familiar with Arch at all, but it sounds like Cachy might be a good stepping stone. I did Ubuntu for many years, bazzite just recently and only because it was less intimidating than Cachy when I just wanted to get it up and running haha. But now that I’ve settled in, I find myself thinking I might try dual booting it just to see 🤔
I installed it but left soon enough. Weird, inconvenient ways of installing software. Many workarounds built in. I like the idea of immutable distro but this seemed like an accumulation of fixes on top of it.
Were you using an AMD graphic card with HDMI 2.1 connection to a monitor/TV?
Because it happened to me that the HDMI connection stopped working after a Bazzite update, and I had to downgrade to Bazzite 44.20260802 (see the Github ticket here), which seems to be the last stable release without the problem.
My understanding is that the problem is still present in Bazzite 45… and it likely won’t be resolved until the next Kernel update (7.3.1) lands. The good news is that it just recently was updated on the unstable branch… I haven’t tested but if the issue is fixed there, I’m hopping it will be ready by the end of this month, since they normally roll updates every few weeks.
No, I’m still on a nvidia card and I’m not sure what version hdmi my monitor is
My comment is more general vibe of my experience with bazzite. similar to what Staff below me said, sometimes it just have some weird inconvenient ways to do things when I need to, for example, use the terminal to look up some folders or change things. idk I admit I’m still not too good doing things in the terminal but adding another layer of having to learn what an immutable distro adds on top seems to be tripping me more.
I do not have an Nivida card, but I udnerstand Nvidia on bazzite (and linux in general) is tougher than AMD to get things working nicely. As for the terminal, I have never once NEEDED to use to terminal in the last year. I have of course used it to do things, but it was rarely the Only way to do what I was trying to do.
Maybe what I am about to say is unpopular, but once I stopped trying to install programs that dont have a flapak from the bazzar store, my life got easier. Of course to counter that statement, I have several programs that are appimages that I control via Gearlevel, then a few windows apps running via faugus.
Also if anything tells you to use lutris, it is wrong, lutris imo is crap, and should not be sued ever; Lutris has not worked once for me.