Hello everyone!

Let me start by saying that I switched from Windows to Linux about a year ago.

I chose Linux Mint because of its stability and snappy performance. So far, my experience with Mint has been amazing. No issues whatsoever — it has been very stable and fast.

About a month ago, I decided to switch to Bazzite for a cooler, more modern KDE experience, and some quality-of-life features that KDE offers over Cinnamon.

For the installation, I used a clean SSD and completely wiped Mint before installing Bazzite. I did this simply because I wanted to avoid any issues with residual files or anything left over from Debian/Ubuntu-based distro

The installation went smoothly, with no issues whatsoever.

That said, I started using Bazzite, and everything seemed great at first. However, I feel like I’ve taken a step backward in terms of performance since switching.

- Startup is slower. It’s not terribly slow, but it’s noticeable.

- Logging into the desktop takes longer than I expected.

- Launching programs takes noticeably more time.

- Overall, the system feels like it takes longer to process my requests.

My PC has fairly decent hardware:

- CPU: Ryzen 9 3950X

- GPU: RTX 3080 ti

- Storage: 1 TB NVMe SSD with high read speeds

- RAM 32 Gb

The biggest issue is that I never experienced these problems with Mint. Logging in and out was fast, and programs launched quickly and smoothly.

My experience with PCs and Linux is moderate. I’m not a complete beginner, and I know my hardware and what kind of performance to expect from it.

So, my question is, is this normal?

Could these issues be related to Wayland versus X11, or is there something I failed to optimize ?

I’d appreciate any insights or suggestions.

I recently switched from Windows, and I'm having problems with Discord.
Previously, I used push to talk on my Y key. With Bazziite, when I bind my Y key, it binds it globally and if I go to another program, I can longer type with my Y key.
For example, when I try to type "the happy youth played with his yoyo" it ends up like this "the happ outh plaed with his oo".

Is there anyway to prevent this from happening while keeping my push to talk key bound to the Y key?

I'm new on Bazzite KDE Plasma and while I am able to run games in HDR with proton-ge and the "PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%" launch option, why can't they run without these two tweaks on Proton Experimental, since HDR is already enabled systemwide? The option remains greyed out.

Not to be overly critic or something, just curious how it works.

I cannot do ctrl+alt+f2 as some people wrote and I'm confused (new to linux and everything related to computers hardware)

Hallo zusammen,

ich versuche seit Tagen, den Steam Frame unter Bazzite zu nutzen.

Wenn ich SteamVR im Desktop Modus starte (Steam Frame Dongle nicht (!) eingesteckt, Steam Frame ausgeschaltet), so scheint SteamVR für einige Sekunden zu laufen, stoppt dann aber.

Ich habe bereits mehrere bekannte Lösungsmethoden ausprobiert

- SteamVR in der neuesten Version (aber auch in den beiden anderen Versionen)

- Steam System in der stabilen wie auch in der Beta Version

- SteamVR fehlende Berechtigungen reparieren: sudo setcap cap_sys_nice+ep...

Hat jemand eine Lösungsmöglichkeit, SteamVR stabil zum Laufen zu bekommen? Mir ist klar, das es keinen Sinn macht, den Stame Frame zu starten und dann den Dongle einzustecken, so lange SteamVR nicht permanent gestartet ist.

Vielen Dank für eure Ideen.

Hey everyone,

I got tired of not knowing how much battery my Steam controller had left on KDE Plasma, so I built a small panel widget that shows it at a glance. There’s no official battery API for this on Linux, so I reverse engineered the protocol by reading raw HID reports from the device and figuring out where the battery data lives. It works well in my daily use. It’s a work in progress and I’ll keep improving it. Feedback, bug reports and feature ideas are very welcome. If you try it, let me know how it works on your setup (distro, Plasma version, controller model).

Hope you like it.

https://www.opendesktop.org/p/2368415/

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Do any of you encountered issues with yesterdays update (23.10)? I have ASRock a620ai motherboard and after this update my fans are not detected anymore... I've rollbacked to the 13.10 version and it works fine

I am trying to play Project Diablo 2, and launching it via lutris.

The first time I run the game, it will properly have focus and receive key strokes.

If I send focus out or alt tab, some other window in the background will get the keystrokes but they will never fully return to the wine diablo 2 screen.

I can sometimes get it to recognize ESC and ENTER, but it won't register anything like WASD etc.

Likewise, if I run ANY of the wine config screens from lutris, none of the WINE windows (like reg edit, etc) receive keystrokes outside of things like TAB, ESC, BACKSPACE. I can't type e.g. WASD into them either.

A lot of fixes online suggest going to wine config and changing shit but I literally can't because the windows dont receive many key strokes.

Trying to understand how to fix this, any help would be appreciated.

I would google this but im scared that the AI overview thing is just making shit up and all my files will get wiped for no reason. Also, I do need to know if I should install it on my C: drive (which doesn't have the space for it but I could clear some things out) or my D: drive (Which does have the space but I don't think that I can wipe out windows on it)

Edit: Nvm ima just stick to windows

Howdy y’all!

I recently switched from Windows and loving it so far. That said, Death Stranding, which ran fine on Windows and runs better on the Steam machine; crashes on Bazzite with stable proton between 20 and 30 mins after launch. Every time. Throws some lengthy error and closes when I click ok.

SOMA and some other games don’t have this issue. I noticed that DS preprocessed Vulcan shaders before first launch so I wonder if Vulcan has something to do with it? Vulcan on NVIDIA maybe?

Anyhow, my search results are sorta all over the place and I’m wondering if there’s a common issue with Vulcan or death stranding specifically or KDE or something that others have seen and maybe corrected?

Cider is showing only stereo options for me.

When I installed windows it deleted my EFI even though it was on a entire different drive then I reinstalled bazzite and the window Bootmangager was gone what could have caused this they were on different drives

The official Bazzite Documentation recommends to install "Gear Lever" from Bazaar to deal with AppImages:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/AppImage/

The neat part is that it not only helps with the formats shortcomings by creating Start Menu icons, so you don’t have to navigate to the file and confirm that you want to run it every single time, but it also addresses some of the previews own limitations.

Because "Launch Options" in the preview seemingly only apply for the games themselves. Trying to manage proton through it, like in Steam, doesn't work. However, you can set up environment variables through Gear Lever that do work, if set up right (was a bit more finicky than it looks, though).

I thought I share this here, as it might be useful for some of you who want to try out the new launcher just as me, but for who it was not feasible as limited as it is.

And just to make it clear: Yes, I know Lutris still works as great as always (and Heroic exists). But that's not the point of this post.

For those that have upgraded to Bazzite 44 how do you switch from your normal controller layout to a mouse and keyboard layout? On HHD you just pressed and held a button until you feel the vibration then you can use the right stick as a mouse and the shoulder buttons as left and right click if I remember correctly. I’ve tried going to the openpad app or whatever it’s called to change it but you can’t create profiles so whatever change you make gets applied to global settings.

What makes YOU choose Bazzite? What "thing", or what feature, if you like, makes you choose Bazzite? Is there anything you dislike, or anything in particular you love?

This post is made with the purpose of me discovering usecases, workflows and so on, on my own Bazzite desktop distro :)

Hi all,
First off, I am NOT a tech-savvy person and I would say that I have a layman's understanding of things. However, I've read some about the recent eMudhra certificate shenanigans, and when I tested the tester on https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ I had a positive hit on curl.

I've tested curl https://dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com in the console, and it connected (which isn't good).

I've seen Fedora push an update on this: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-56e14eb520

So my question is; is Bazzite at risk due to downstream stuff? And how can I fix my curl from using to these compromised certificates?

Hi,

After the upgrade to Bazzite 44 at release, I had to package AKMOD-NCT6687D manually to make sure I could control my fans etc by coolercontrol instead of the limited bios fan curves.

This gave me no errors till now, when updating I get the following error:

Does this mean that NCT-6687D is back in Bazzite and I can remove the layeredpackage? or am I reading this wrong?

rpo-ostree status

Thanks in advance for your guidance and help

No matter what game I play they keep Crashing randomly at random times..

I changed proton versions and tried anything that came up in google searches..

I’m about to give up and make a change to SteamOS

System is Specs:

Ryzen 5600x
32 GB DDR 4 RAM (Corsair Vengeance)
AMD 7800XT

Is there anything I could do?
I love the OS but like this I just can’t go on..

Today I ran out of space (a 2TB disk with few things on it) on my kid's Bazzite PC. When checking I found this "recursive" structure.

Inside his home dir (~polm/) there was a var/ with a home/ and a polm/ inside, and inside again a var/home/polm/ and so on for several depth levels.

In each one there was a copy of several of his home dir folders and files, including the Videos/ folder that consumed all the 2TB space. I renamed the initial var/ to v2/, just to see what breaks, and nothing happened so far.

Any clue on what could have happened?

hi everyone I'm on bazzite 44 and I now that HDD was removed in new update ...and openGamepadUI is instead with power station ...but in game mode my laptop don't have TPD control ...I installed decky image for it . and hear every one have it ..so what is the salutation ?

Hi, this might be a dumb question but I am not very tech savvy. I was just wondering if bazzite would automatically detect a new ssd and let me store games on it once I install it, as opposed to needing to reinstall the OS. Thanks!

I am debating installing Bazzite but, I just started looking into it and have heard stories of crashing etc...I get that some hardware is to blame for issues. I understand that Steam works well however, what about standalone games, epic, riot and other platforms? Also, is there a way to use Ableton with it?