Bazzite constantly crashing
Hello !
I am a complete Linux newbie that made the switch to Linux from Windows yesterday. I was really tempted by the Bazzite's positive buzz on the internet. I flashed a USB drive and installed the system on my 250 GB M2 SSD. I wanted to use the other 2 TB M2 SSD for games and programs but have no idea how to use it in Linux despite formatting in btrfs and creating a partition :-(.
My main problem is that the system crashes all the time when I launch Steam (either the pre-installed one or the one from the Discover app that's a flatpak I think) or even when I casually browse the net on Vivaldi. A crash occurs sometimes a second after trying to open one of those apps, sometimes it takes a few minutes. Sometimes right after I click download on any Steam game. I managed to even launch Half-Life once and played for 5 minutes until the screen just went black with just the cursor visible and then I couldn't do anything and had to hard reset the PC.
The problem mainly manifests as one of the following:
-Screen goes black and nothing happens. Requires hard reset
-Screen goes black and only the cursor is visible. Requires hard reset
- Everything on the screen freezes in place. Requires hard reset
-Rarely the screen just goes black for a moment and then the system automatically reboots
I've tried reinstalling the system 2 times but that didn't help. I switched to X11 (during log-in) after having even more issues with Wayland like windows flickering. I also switched to bazzite-stable (NVK) and back to Nvidia-stable but that also didn't help. Tried updating all the packages. The drivers that are pre-installed with the system are 550.78 and I only use one 1440p monitor via DisplayPort.
System specs:
i7-8700K
RTX 2080 Ti
16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
250 GB M2 SSD (Bazzite is installed on this one)
2 TB M2 SSD (Formatted to btrfs with a single partition, no files on it)
I am a complete Linux newbie that made the switch to Linux from Windows yesterday. I was really tempted by the Bazzite's positive buzz on the internet. I flashed a USB drive and installed the system on my 250 GB M2 SSD. I wanted to use the other 2 TB M2 SSD for games and programs but have no idea how to use it in Linux despite formatting in btrfs and creating a partition :-(.
My main problem is that the system crashes all the time when I launch Steam (either the pre-installed one or the one from the Discover app that's a flatpak I think) or even when I casually browse the net on Vivaldi. A crash occurs sometimes a second after trying to open one of those apps, sometimes it takes a few minutes. Sometimes right after I click download on any Steam game. I managed to even launch Half-Life once and played for 5 minutes until the screen just went black with just the cursor visible and then I couldn't do anything and had to hard reset the PC.
The problem mainly manifests as one of the following:
-Screen goes black and nothing happens. Requires hard reset
-Screen goes black and only the cursor is visible. Requires hard reset
- Everything on the screen freezes in place. Requires hard reset
-Rarely the screen just goes black for a moment and then the system automatically reboots
I've tried reinstalling the system 2 times but that didn't help. I switched to X11 (during log-in) after having even more issues with Wayland like windows flickering. I also switched to bazzite-stable (NVK) and back to Nvidia-stable but that also didn't help. Tried updating all the packages. The drivers that are pre-installed with the system are 550.78 and I only use one 1440p monitor via DisplayPort.
System specs:
i7-8700K
RTX 2080 Ti
16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
250 GB M2 SSD (Bazzite is installed on this one)
2 TB M2 SSD (Formatted to btrfs with a single partition, no files on it)
