Apologies if what I'm asking is entirely incomprehensible haha, I'll be quite honest I know next to

Apologies if what I'm asking is entirely incomprehensible haha, I'll be quite honest I know next to nothing about all this. I'm just wondering if Bazzite Desktop is also trying to be a play-on-your-couch, big-picture mode type thing or if it's literally just UBlue with more gaming stuff bundled in. I'm looking for just a normal desktop experience so I don't really want the former.

j0rge•12/11/23, 3:28 AM

both

j0rge•12/11/23, 3:29 AM

there's different images for each, on my htpc I use bazzite-deck, which is the big picture ui basically

j0rge•12/11/23, 3:29 AM

but on your desktop you can just run normal bazzite

FIREBAT•12/11/23, 3:37 AM

does bazzite run KDE or GNOME?

Vval ⬝Apologies if what I'm asking is entirely incomprehensible haha, I'll be quite ho...

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:37 AM

since you have a nvidia GPU, you actually only have the choice of the normal desktop version since the version with "Game Mode" doesn't run with the nvidia drivers

FFIREBAT does bazzite run KDE or GNOME?

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:37 AM

your choice

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:37 AM

there are KDE and GNOME images

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:37 AM

default Bazzite image is KDE but there's -gnome-gnome variants

FIREBAT•12/11/23, 3:38 AM

would you mind linking the GNOME ISO? I just installed the UBUNTU OS on my system and was going to just do the patching myself

Ttryhardsoccermomswag your choice

FIREBAT•12/11/23, 3:39 AM

Is that recommended or advised against

FFIREBAT would you mind linking the GNOME ISO? I just installed the UBUNTU OS on my syste...

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:39 AM

all of the images are in the regular ISO, you just choose before installing. latest ISO is here - https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/v2.0.2

FFIREBAT Is that recommended or advised against

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:39 AM

both are supported

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:39 AM

it's really just if you like one or the other more

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:40 AM

if you like GNOME, use the GNOME images. if you like KDE, then use the images without GNOME attached

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:41 AM

installation guide - https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=30
installation troubleshoot guide (may need because of upstream issues with installer) - https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=34
faq - https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=33

Ttryhardsoccermomswag both are supported

FIREBAT•12/11/23, 3:46 AM

I guess worst case, i pull the bazzite .iso and wipe the entire steamdeck, write the bazzite iso over it

Ttryhardsoccermomswag since you have a nvidia GPU, you actually only have the choice of the normal des...

val ⬝OP•12/11/23, 3:50 AM

Thanks.

val ⬝OP•12/11/23, 3:53 AM

Is the featurelist on https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite#desktop everything that's different from regular uBlue? I'm wondering if there's any UI / KDE changes over the default uBlue. It seems like there is based on what's listed here. I mentioned earlier that I'm looking for a normal Desktop environment, and not a big-picture esque UI, so that's the make or break for me personally.

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:55 AM

that link is just for the specific difference with the desktop images. the full feature is part of the desktop image too.

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:55 AM

but the only difference with KDE is that it uses Valve's SteamOS theme

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:55 AM

which you might not even notice

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:55 AM

because it looks just like Breeze

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:57 AM

with some minor changes

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:57 AM

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/#about--features
here's all the features that affect most of the images including desktop

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 3:57 AM

Steam and Lutris are also preinstalled

val ⬝OP•12/11/23, 4:03 AM

Thank you! Sounds good to me, I'll have to check this out then.

val ⬝OP•12/11/23, 4:04 AM

And yeah, your link is what I meant to post lol accidentally pasted the wrong thing

val ⬝OP•12/11/23, 4:05 AM

Dumb question, I can change the theme in the future right? I'm guessing that's very obvious but I'd figure I'd ask just in the slim chance it's not because of some weird immutable thing I'm unaware of haha

Frozen•12/11/23, 4:06 AM

What's the word on Deck OLED support? I know it was being worked on.

FFrozen What's the word on Deck OLED support? I know it was being worked on.

Kyle Gospo•12/11/23, 4:09 AM

Everything but changing the refresh rate works

Kyle Gospo•12/11/23, 4:09 AM

Working to fix that now

Frozen•12/11/23, 4:10 AM

Oh hell yeah, that's fast! Especially with the holidays. Looking forward to full support and release!

Vval ⬝Dumb question, I can change the theme in the future right? I'm guessing that's v...

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 4:16 AM

yes

tryhardsoccermomswag•12/11/23, 4:16 AM

KKyle Gospo That is very strange though, can you tell me more about your hardware?

Daegalus•12/11/23, 6:17 AM

Alienware m17. 3080, ax210 wifi, Intel 10th Gen I think. Maybe 11th. Has Intel graphics too

Vval ⬝Dumb question, I can change the theme in the future right? I'm guessing that's v...

Valerie•12/11/23, 6:35 AM

Yes, slight thing is that Global themes in KDE can be finnicky because SDDM themes are not supported.

Valerie•12/11/23, 6:35 AM

If you just download the individual components of the theme it'll work just fine

Exterma•12/11/23, 8:59 AM

I plugged in a mouse and since then even though its unplugged now and system rebooted drop down menus toggle and sliders don't work it makes a noise like I'm changing it but theu don't move in steam deck image before it was working perfectly

Exterma•12/11/23, 9:08 AM

Plugging the keyboard and mouse back in fixes the issue even after unplugging again but as soon as reboot it stops working unable to change any toggles in menus sliders or drop downs

Exterma•12/11/23, 9:22 AM

Give up

RodoMa92•12/11/23, 9:47 AM

@KyleGospo or if you prefer just to also include this as a test on the latest mainline, I guess it would be enough :P

RodoMa92•12/11/23, 9:47 AM

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/5ffd01e6c8a1464795d612de1c6fa8a4@realtek.com/

cpuccino•12/11/23, 12:04 PM

Anyone experiencing laggy ui? Im running on latest gnome deck

Zelaf•12/11/23, 12:51 PM

I'm now telling Windows boot manager to boot grub to boot Bazzite

Zelaf•12/11/23, 12:51 PM

How does UEFI boot work to tell it to use the grub one directly?

ZZelaf How does UEFI boot work to tell it to use the grub one directly?

HikariKnight•12/11/23, 3:04 PM

if efibootmgr and uefi bootorder is not respected, then you can forcefully change it,
not sure how the deck will handle this so you will be on your own if you do this on a deck, but you can rename the BOOTX64.EFI file (rename, dont delete, incase your machine for some reason dislikes this forceful change and you need to restore the original file) on the EFI partition and copy grubx64.efi into the same folder as BOOTX64.EFI and rename the grub efi to BOOTX64.EFI.

in theory that should force grub to be first until windows wipes the EFI partition to reinstall its own bootloader in a random update