JI was thinking about installing Bazzite on my gaming rig. I'm using Fedora and have been fairly happy with it but I want a more gaming focused distro. Nobara is nice but the lack of forums and support scares me a bit. Bazzite seems to be great for my needs but I have a bit of questions.
- I have seen a lot of people use this for gaming handhelds and HTPCs and not much for Desktops. Why is that? Is this distro more for those use cases? Would I be better off sticking with fedora?
- With it being immutable, can I still tweak/theme my desktop? That's the biggest customization that I plan on doing to my system.
G1) Bazzite is fully suitable as a desktop solution. I use it for my main gaming PC with no issues. In fact, it's excellent as a workstation. Bazzite is also developed on Bazzite.
2) You can tweak pretty much anything about your desktop as long as it modifies the home directory or the /etc directory. You can't touch /usr. In practice, that means you can't easily modify the lock screen in KDE as that requires root privileges, for example.
2) You can tweak pretty much anything about your desktop as long as it modifies the home directory or the /etc directory. You can't touch /usr. In practice, that means you can't easily modify the lock screen in KDE as that requires root privileges, for example.
Dlockscreen is still customizable
Login screen however is different story
Login screen however is different story
JOkay thanks! Login screen customization is a bit of a bummer but I don't like the custom ones anyway to be honest.
JAre there any other theming roadblocks?
KAlso login screen customization only applies to KDE since Gnome doesn't have customization even on regular Fedora
KMost of Bazzite's changes can be done on Fedora as well, since Bazzite is fedora based anyway - Its that all of them are preinstalled and on an immutable system
JThat's true. I'm still really on the fence with what I like best. I absolutely love the look of gnome but I don't like how it handles full screen applications when using Super+scroll. The dash to dock extension also doesn't have preview windows when hovering. Just minor stuff that makes me want to use KDE. KDE also has its issues though. It feels like Windows but maybe worse? Idk how else to describe it.
EYou can modify a lot of the KDE UI to your liking
KFull screen apps with Super+Scroll?
KWdym?
KThat it keeps them in fullscreen?
JThis might be a fedora issue but whenever I have a full screen app open on one workspace and use Super+Scroll and go back to the workspace, I get placed on the desktop and the game
JBut if I just use the Super key and select the workspace, it selects the game in full screen
JWhich is what I want
KAh, I see, it happens only sometimes
KAt least on my end
JOh so maybe it's a bug with gnome?
KGamescope fixes it whenever it does happen
JIdk. I really want to like gnome but really dislike their philosophy of essentially not customization. The gnome was a nightmare to theme although that was more of a gtk4 and Flatpak issue. I'm sorta stuck. I like the philosophy of KDE but dislike the look. I love the look of Gnome but hate the philosophy.
JGTK just looks so much better in my opinion.
JIt's so sad that Gradience is essentially dead
ATwo questions:
one; is this bug fixed on bazzite? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1500
one; is this bug fixed on bazzite? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1500
GitLab
Brief summary of the problem: The RX 6800 doesn't sustain GPU clock in a sufficient manner, causing Hitman 2 with DXVK...
Atwo; noticed that when a panel menu is open on gnome (date menu for example, or power/internet/volume menu), it blocks interactions with panel elements such as logo menu and the like. Is there any way to change this behavior on gnome, or do I just have to live with it?
Ait seems to just be a gnome thing, not bazzite, but figured i'd ask anyways
Eyeah that bug is 3 years old and doesn't reflect my experience at all (I specifically have an RX 6800)
EI think the same bug existed in HoloISO a while back too
ESo it was definitely solved at some point because my RX 6800 runs great and comparable to (sometimes better than) it would on Windows
Aive found it still an issue even on arch distros
Aa massive reduction in microstuttering when using frame limiters and VRR when setting to compute or vr
Aalso, noticed that VRR is still basically non functional, even in gamescope sessions
Apartially thanks to how incredible the Mesa drivers are, they're sooo good
ARADV and the like
EVRR is a little better on Bazzite but if you're in the Steam Gamepad UI it's basically just ok
Amy experience with VRR on linux in general is just non-functional, even on recent KDE versions
Eyeah it's better than nothing but VRR on Linux in general has a little bit of a ways to go
Aactually for me, it's worse than nothing
Elol
Ait accentuates any form of microstuttering into full on stuttering, causes my backlight to flicker, and in general just doesn't work properly at all
Awas playing a game on gamescope earlier and my refresh rate was jumping between the game's refresh rate and the monitor's max refresh rate at what seemed like every millisecond
Eyeah it varies a lot from game to game
Ait works flawlessly in windows, never had any issues with it there. kinda annoys me that it's so.. nonfunctional in linux
Aeven in the face of KDE's supposed improvements (though im on gnome currently)
Eyeah it's a bummer. Only so much that can be done with upstream stuff being what it is
Ai spose
Afortunately, im not sensitive to latency enough above 80-90fps to tell the difference between regular and VRR
Ait's mostly for games running at 30-60fps that i see an improvement
Eyeah I actually do get reasonable results from Elden Ring
Ewhich is hardlocked to 60 maximum