Bazzite

I realise that my keyboard has some dodgy keys when I tried to use my administrator password, so I don't actually know for sure what it is 😬

A significant mistake! Luckily there's no real setup issues or anything and I'm happy to reinstall - the only thing on there is my steam downloads which will take ages to download again

Is there a way I can save those files and reinstall bazzite from my original thumb drive installer so that I can fix my mistake this time?

@bazzite Will Bazzite comply to age verification new laws?

Haven't booted my pc for a while, suddenly this showed up today?

Hi guys, As the title pretty much says, what is the correct way to keep your bazzite pc up to date with both software and hardware drivers? Do you just use the "updater" on their "marketplace" platform? Or is there a terminal code I should know of? (For instance, like OpenSUSE has the sudo zypper dup command)

SkatorGaytor describes the steps to install Mullvad VPN on Bazzite in an answer on this thread (post 2).

TL;DR
Switched from Windows → Debian → Bazzite. This is part appreciation post, part personal journey. Bazzite just works, and I love it.

Long story
Over the past few years, I had heard great things about Proton and Bazzite, so I decided to give them a shot. Over the course of about 6 months I migrated my gaming rig from Windows to Debian, and eventually to Bazzite.

I was stuck with Windows for years because, let’s face it, games are built for it. But I knew most titles ran just fine on Linux, and I was curious to see how it actually holds up. I started with Debian since I've used it on other machines and didn’t want to deal with extra admin work when I just wanted to game.

Of course, I hit a few snags, mostly thanks to Nvidia still deserving the middle finger, and my fancy gaming mouse pulling some weird non-standard click shenanigans. After switching to AMD and a simpler gaming mouse, Debian actually worked pretty well. Initially, I thought I was stuck with Steam games, but Heroic Games fixed that as well. Things have really gotten a lot better in Linux gaming!

Well, almost everything worked. Space Engineers 2 was the one holdout. I tried every trick in the book to get it running, but eventually realized I was spending more time troubleshooting than actually playing. That’s when I backed up my saves and took the plunge with Bazzite.

I've always kept secure boot disabled, but Bazzite’s modern installation made me reconsider. The official guide didn’t fully solve my issues, but I winged it and got it working anyway. Turns out, ignoring secure boot for years meant I had some learning to do. Better late than never.

First boot into Bazzite, and of course, I had to tweak KDE to feel like home. Still love how customizable it is after all these years, and Wayland support is surprisingly solid now.

And guess what? Space Engineers 2 just worked. No hackery or trickery required. Kudos to the Bazzite devs. Keep it up!

Lesson learned
Sure, you can game on Debian, and it's perfectly fine for most games. If you want it to just work, Bazzite’s the way to go.

This is the first time I cared enough about an update, to try and look it up, since I want to play RE Requiem, but had freezes on the old driver, but graphics errors and bad performance on the current version.

So far I can’t find the new driver version on the GitHub releases page. Does anyone know, how quickly new drivers are pushed?

I’m on bazzite-deck-nvidia

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I currently use Ultramarine KDE Plasma, which is a very nicely configured Fedora 43 based distro.

I'm evaluating switching to Bazzite. Simple test: Try to add my wireless Canon printer - works. Try to add my wireless Canon scanner - oops! No scanner software.

Normally I would sudo dnf in skanlite and continue with my day.

On Bazzite, I'm guessing I will sudo rpm-ostree install skanlite ?

But wait, doesn't this involve the dreaded - dun duh daaa - 'layering'? Have I just ruined the precious immutability??

Is it generally OK to add in fedora packages or not??

Confused ...

Today Plasma 6.6 was released. Among the new features, they updated KDE's virtual keyboard (link), and I would like to give it a try.

By default Bazzite uses Steam's virtual keyboard. I remember I could see KDE's OSK (On-Screen Keyboard) icon, but I never managed to launch it from Bazzite, it just didn't open when clicked. Now I can't even find the icon anymore. Also, I could never find any references to it online.

Is it even possible to do it, or has it been "chiseled away" from the system? Opening KDE's keyboard in desktop mode would be enough for me; enabling it in game mode would be secondary.

If you know if it is supported in Bazzite and/or how to open it, please share your wisdom. Thanks!

Hey, on Windows I was a cFos Speed user for ages. cfosspeed is a 3rd party QoS software, which helped a lot for having a low latency even when bandwith is used up. I could easily play latency-sensitive games while having downloads running.

Now with Bazzite, I recognized how much good work cfos did. I had Heroic Games Launcher download a game, and play Rocket League via Steam at the same time - and ping was bad.

Is there any best practice for QoS on Bazzite? cFos basically did two things:

• Prioritize acks over new packets
• Prioritize packets known for gaming (e.g. due to used ports)

Has anyone used Mumble with text-to-speech feature in Bazzite? Text to speech is grayed out in my settings. Previous tries from hints in the internet (mainly for Fedora) didn't help.

But I'm very new to Linux gaming and to Fedora based distributions, so any advice is appreciated.

Attached the last boot which just froze.

Has a dual boot with Win 11 (possibly the issue, haven't booted into win11 since i got it a month ago). Changed to x11, not sure exactly what is causing it, but before switching from KDE to Gnome figured I'd ask if anyone has any additional suggestions to try.

Also added this to the nvidia modset config

options nvidia-drm modeset=1 options nvidia_drm fbdev=1 options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 options nvidia Nvreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1

System Information: --full link here https://paste.centos.org/view/6c9bb742

State: idle Deployments: ● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable Digest: sha256:4a5ecbd500cb3206eedd818dfbafbfbb68c82b57607958aab6728fdc37b8f326 Version: 43.20260120.1 (2026-01-20T06:11:01Z) LayeredPackages: cmake plasma-workspace-x11

ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable Digest: sha256:4a5ecbd500cb3206eedd818dfbafbfbb68c82b57607958aab6728fdc37b8f326 Version: 43.20260120.1 (2026-01-20T06:11:01Z) LayeredPackages: cmake

Useful to know for any other video editors out there. The ujust install-resolve command installs Davinci Resolve for you.

Find the program/app called Terminal (probably already on the taskbar). type in the command. Press enter. Follow instructions.

If all goes smoothly, Resolve should appear in your Start menu. Probably in the Lost & Found section (you can move it if you wish).

In using Bazzite DX with KDE and a 9070 XT. I'm playing Clair Obscur in borderless windowed mode because that's the only way it'll allow me to turn on frame generation.

I was getting quite a bit of distracting tearing. But adaptive sync is on "always".

The tearing disappeared when I unchecked the option to allow tearing in full screen windows, but if I understand correctly, that's V-sync, and it increases latency, right?

It's a turn-based RPG so latency probably not the end of the world, and I honestly haven't noticed the difference so far, but it kinda feels like it's not ideal. Was there something else I should've done?

My fiancee runs bazzite, this was her choice but she's horribly non techy. I often have to help her with tech support but I don't use Linux, I've been thinking of switching over just so I can learn and fucking keep her PC from breaking all the time but I don't want to use bazzite. Would I learn by using what I hear it's based off of? (Fedora)

I have a system which the on board Bluetooth/wifi is bogus. I've worked around by just getting a Bluetooth USB guy but now I need to disable the on board one in bazzite as it keeps turning itself back on. Anyone familiar enough to help? I searched through BIOS and there isn't an option to disable it there and the gui enable/disable just resets once Bluetooth is either restarted or system restarts. Thanks in advance.

I decided to abandon Windows on my desktop this year. After some searching I ended up with @bazzite
After being a Debian user (server and vm) for a while it’s taken some time to adjust. But I will stick with it to the end of 2026.

I failed to install Bazzite besides Windows10 (same SSD) and Ubuntu (different SSD). I got the error that grub2-mkconfig exited with code 1. It did not create an entry in my efi partition (checked in Ubuntu and only saw one Ubuntu and one Windows directory). I checked the logfile mentioned in the error dialog, though that basically just said the same. No further information.

As I wanted to overwrite an existing old ubuntu install on that SSD, I chose to install on a shared disk and then reclaimed the storage space by removing the old root and swap partition of the old Ubuntu in the resulting dialog. The partioning for Bazzite is then done automatically on the resulting free space.

Can you help me with this? All I could find online was either not fitting the problem at all and/or showing a totally different install process (probably for old Bazzite versions).

My hardware is rather old. Ryzen5 CPU, SATA SSDs and HDDs and a Geforce 1060 3GB. I hope to now completely ditch Windows with a replacement for gaming.

Thanks in advance for any help with this problem