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I was in the same shoes, then one day I decided to give a shot to Bazzite. To my surprise the installation was extremely smooth, and everything worked right awa

by ugurcant 11mo ago

I was in the same shoes, then one day I decided to give a shot to Bazzite. To my surprise the installation was extremely smooth, and everything worked right away. Now I’m playing almost everything on it (Arc Raiders, EU V, HLL and Horizon FW recently). If you want to _try_ all you need is 15 minutes, some HDD space and an empty USB. You don’t have to give up Windows at all, dual booting is also pretty smooth.

gpderetta 11mo ago
I have a bazzite box connected behind my TV. Even with a non optimal choice of graphic card (an old Nvidia) it works better than I was expecting.
- Whinner 11mo ago
  I also bit the bullet and did a bazzite install and am blown away how seamless it has been for what I need. All the games I like run on Steam. Even Diablo 4 runs through the Blizzard launcher which does take some work to get installed, but nothing you can't find in a youtube video. No issues using the system as my daily driver for personal things. I have dual monitors, one oriented vertically and one 144hz. All works great! I'd recommend it to anyone
  - aryonoco 11mo ago
    The whole Universal Blue image ecosystem is so polished, consistent and coherent. Bazzite is their gaming image variant, I’ve also recently switched to Bluefin which is their Gnome variant on my workstation and everything works so nicely together, it’s the most joy I’ve had using a computer in a long time.
    - fullstop 11mo ago
      I've been very happy with Aurora-DX, which falls under the Universal Blue umbrella. I reboot it once a week to apply updates and I can roll back if I need to.
barbazoo 11mo ago
Loved the concept, tried it out, didn't work, at least not for RDR2 which I was trying to play. But how would it work, there is Linux, Bazzite, then there is Steam, RDR2 needs the Rockstar launcher, it's such an intricate web of dependencies, I'm not surprised something isn't working.
- computerex 11mo ago
  RDR2 has a gold rating: https://www.protondb.com/app/1174180 https://www.protondb.com/app/1174180 It should work with some tinkering.
- lbschenkel 11mo ago
  I have finished RDR2 on Bazzite (story mode), zero issues.
- amlib 11mo ago
  When silly DRM or a game launcher is all that is keeping you from enjoying a game, that is when you get the pirated version without any of this bs and enjoy it without remorse.
- Wojtkie 11mo ago
  RDR2 works great on my AMD Linux machine.
- ZeWaka 11mo ago
  Worked fine for me on a Deck.
- agoodusername63 11mo ago
  I apologize that nobody responding to you is understanding the point here that the last thing Linux gaming is, is consistent.
- akshitgaur2005 11mo ago
  frankly at this point pirating the content seems a lot more convenient than some of these games, I wonder if those execs are trying to intentionally push us off
SparkBomb 11mo ago
Gaming on Linux is hit and miss, depending on the distro you use and your desktop environment. Some games should be launched with gamescope if you are using Gnome/GDM To have HellDivers run in borderless window on Debian 14. It required me to manually compile gamescope (wasn't that difficult but Valve's instructions are out of date), and use the backports on Trixie to upgrade the kernel to 6.16, and update wireplumber and pipewire (sound was flakey on some games). Kernel 6.16 performs much better than 6.12 just generally. All the Arkham games work perfectly. Doom Eternal has some weird latency in the mouse and aiming doesn't feel right. I could never get my Xbox One bluetooth controller behaving with Linux. I ended buying a 8bitdo Xbox style controller which works perfectly. It is much better made than the Xbox controller and roughly the same price.
- terribleperson 11mo ago
  So to be fair about Helldivers, it doesn't even reliably work on Windows. I have to install a two year old AMD driver to get Helldivers to recognize my GPU.
  - SparkBomb 11mo ago
    I've had zero issues on Windows. None at all. I have a AMD GPU. Linux issues have been poor performance generally. Once I installed kernel 6.16 that was fixed.
- crowbahr 11mo ago
  That's why the correct choice is Bazzite
  - SparkBomb 11mo ago
    No the correct choice is what I want to use and it is Debian. Distro-hopping doesn't fix your problems and you will end up with either the same issues or more issues by distro-hopping. I use my Linux machine for things other than games and I am not moving to "distro of the week" to run one game.
dbspin 11mo ago
How's the Nvidia driver support in Bazzite?

gpderetta 11mo ago

I have a bazzite box connected behind my TV. Even with a non optimal choice of graphic card (an old Nvidia) it works better than I was expecting.

Whinner 11mo ago
I also bit the bullet and did a bazzite install and am blown away how seamless it has been for what I need. All the games I like run on Steam. Even Diablo 4 runs through the Blizzard launcher which does take some work to get installed, but nothing you can't find in a youtube video. No issues using the system as my daily driver for personal things. I have dual monitors, one oriented vertically and one 144hz. All works great! I'd recommend it to anyone
- aryonoco 11mo ago
  The whole Universal Blue image ecosystem is so polished, consistent and coherent. Bazzite is their gaming image variant, I’ve also recently switched to Bluefin which is their Gnome variant on my workstation and everything works so nicely together, it’s the most joy I’ve had using a computer in a long time.
  - fullstop 11mo ago
    I've been very happy with Aurora-DX, which falls under the Universal Blue umbrella. I reboot it once a week to apply updates and I can roll back if I need to.

barbazoo 11mo ago

Loved the concept, tried it out, didn't work, at least not for RDR2 which I was trying to play. But how would it work, there is Linux, Bazzite, then there is Steam, RDR2 needs the Rockstar launcher, it's such an intricate web of dependencies, I'm not surprised something isn't working.

computerex 11mo ago
RDR2 has a gold rating: https://www.protondb.com/app/1174180 https://www.protondb.com/app/1174180 It should work with some tinkering.
lbschenkel 11mo ago
I have finished RDR2 on Bazzite (story mode), zero issues.
amlib 11mo ago
When silly DRM or a game launcher is all that is keeping you from enjoying a game, that is when you get the pirated version without any of this bs and enjoy it without remorse.
Wojtkie 11mo ago
RDR2 works great on my AMD Linux machine.
ZeWaka 11mo ago
Worked fine for me on a Deck.
agoodusername63 11mo ago
I apologize that nobody responding to you is understanding the point here that the last thing Linux gaming is, is consistent.
akshitgaur2005 11mo ago
frankly at this point pirating the content seems a lot more convenient than some of these games, I wonder if those execs are trying to intentionally push us off

SparkBomb 11mo ago

Gaming on Linux is hit and miss, depending on the distro you use and your desktop environment. Some games should be launched with gamescope if you are using Gnome/GDM To have HellDivers run in borderless window on Debian 14. It required me to manually compile gamescope (wasn't that difficult but Valve's instructions are out of date), and use the backports on Trixie to upgrade the kernel to 6.16, and update wireplumber and pipewire (sound was flakey on some games). Kernel 6.16 performs much better than 6.12 just generally. All the Arkham games work perfectly. Doom Eternal has some weird latency in the mouse and aiming doesn't feel right. I could never get my Xbox One bluetooth controller behaving with Linux. I ended buying a 8bitdo Xbox style controller which works perfectly. It is much better made than the Xbox controller and roughly the same price.

terribleperson 11mo ago
So to be fair about Helldivers, it doesn't even reliably work on Windows. I have to install a two year old AMD driver to get Helldivers to recognize my GPU.
- SparkBomb 11mo ago
  I've had zero issues on Windows. None at all. I have a AMD GPU. Linux issues have been poor performance generally. Once I installed kernel 6.16 that was fixed.
crowbahr 11mo ago
That's why the correct choice is Bazzite
- SparkBomb 11mo ago
  No the correct choice is what I want to use and it is Debian. Distro-hopping doesn't fix your problems and you will end up with either the same issues or more issues by distro-hopping. I use my Linux machine for things other than games and I am not moving to "distro of the week" to run one game.

dbspin 11mo ago

How's the Nvidia driver support in Bazzite?