What CPU architectures are supported for Bazzite?

I know really stupid question but I am trying to install Bazzite on my old laptop to turn into a mini home console for light gaming but I can't seem to get it to either boot properly or install at all. For context the CPU on the device is a 4th gen i3 so I don't know if I am wasting my time or not
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1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Should support any x86_64 CPU
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
If that's the case I am very confused. When I get home I will send logs
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
hey you can still send logs but try using the stock Fedora Silverblue or Fedora Kinoite ISO and rebase see if the installer even comes up like i have an older 2005 gateway x86_64 PC that won't boot any Fedora at all. just would not reach the installer workstation, silverblue, any of the spins, etc
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Installer comes up like half the time sometimes it hangs but it will outright refuse installation It's weird because I've installed every single distro under the sun Arch, Ubuntu, Opensuse, Gentoo, etc
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
If you're able to boot a stock silverblue or kinoite installer, just install those and then rebase
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Sure Seems like it's working fine in the installer currently. It has so far gotten much further than the Bazzite installer has It actually made it to the Installation Progress menu and is writing objects
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Nevermind I got this
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tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
Connected to internet? Wonder if it's due to flatpak 🤔
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
I will install bazzite on the usb and show what error appeared on that and you could probably use it to make a correlation
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
So somehow it ended up getting past the installations lol. But now I can't get past this
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IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Accept button does nothing
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
@EyeCantCU Finally someone else with this
EyeCantCU
EyeCantCU•10mo ago
All right. I'll make it a package. Just a sec. Really weird issue With a big warning label
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Oh so it's a bug?
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
yeah it's only been a little over week since bazzite has released so a lot of new findings have occurred but it's great that new users are pointing them out so thank you
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Oh yeah np. Mainly want to try this out before I inevitably replace SteamOS on my Deck
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
yeah i feel like the deck image seems to have a lot less issues in general actually i used to run it on mine, but i had the 64GB so it only booted half of the time due to some weird upstream issue but even in the pre-release days it was really stable... besides you know the 64GB emmc deck issues lol
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
I wouldnt know, I replaced the SSD on my Deck
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
yeah im a doofus and won't do that until the emmc is dead im on main channel right now with steamOS 3.5 using steamOS-btrfs payload it's ok lol almost like bazzite besides being able to layer packages which would have been cool
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
lol nice So update: the next button worked after a lot of time waiting (aka me forgetting it was still up) and I finally finished the installation However now I'm a bit lost on where pacman is? I installed bazzite-arch so I'm not sure why I can't use it
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
distrobox enter bazzite-arch sudo pacman -S package paru -S package distrobox-export --app package
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Ah it's done thru distrobox Gotcha. Thanks
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
np
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Says no such container exists despite me installing it
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
distrobox list does it show up?
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
No List is completely empty
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
oh wow
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
I'm starting to have suspisions that my laptop might just be a piece of shit But I'm not at that point of fully understanding how Linux works yet so I have no clue
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
here: wait what GPU vendor? AMD, intel, or nvidia? distrobox create --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch --name bazzite-arch in a terminal (Konsole on KDE, Terminal on GNOME) distrobox create --nvidia --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch --name bazzite-arch if you have nvidia that should get it to start btw since you mentioned that you just plan to put it on deck the deck images don't use distrobox they just layer steam and lutris as native packages to match SteamOS especially since Game Mode is basically using Steam as a desktop environment
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Intel
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
okay yeah distrobox create --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch --name bazzite-arch
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
Cool thanks This info is extremely helpful one last question, how's SMT on Bazzite? Emulation has issues on regular steamos so I want to know if that issue is or isn't present on Bazzite
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
SMT issue was fixed on SteamOS 3.5 and it shouldn't even exist on Bazzite to begin with it was kind of just an error with SteamOS that they now resolved
IshtarIsBae
IshtarIsBae•10mo ago
SteamOS 3.5 still isn't out which is why I asked. Thanks
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
haha lol yeah the beta channel just updated to SteamOS 3.4.10
EyeCantCU
EyeCantCU•10mo ago
SteamOS 3.5 is gonna go Half Life 3 at this point I just want to see the HDR kernel changes make it upstream
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
steamos should have podman preinstalled as well maybe even waydroid
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
currently waydroid wouldnt even work on steamOS stable channel still on the 5.15 linux kernel and desktop mode runs in X11
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
so there is no wayland on steamos?
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
well
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
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tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
actually not too bad you're just running a script the caveats tho i guess it does work
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Right Steam input is X only Wayland on steam deck can't work as a result Would work in game mode
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
wait, but I thought waydroid is included on the steam deck version of bazzite
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
We have Wayland
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
yeah that's good. so steamos doesn't even have a wayland option?
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Right Only game mode
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
on steamos or bazzite?
tryhardsoccermomswag
tryhardsoccermomswag•10mo ago
steamOS there's no wayland option for desktop mode on bazzite you can choose between both x11 and wayland
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Game mode is Wayland on both
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
that's good
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Desktop is X only on SteamOS It's Wayland or X on Bazzite, and hopefully Wayland by default soon
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
does X even support touch screen usage
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Yes but it crashes in gnome
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
wait, touching the screen crashes GNOME?
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Yeah, tap the top bar in X to crash instantly lol
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
not an issue in wayland?
1/4 Life
1/4 Life•10mo ago
Right
dnkmmr
dnkmmr•10mo ago
that's good