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After having run Windows on my desktop for years (as I thought it was necessary for gaming), I decided to take the plunge to try out Linux again... (fedia.io)

submitted 2 months ago by Treedrake@fedia.io to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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... and it's much, much better than I anticipated. Proton has solved so many things. I've been dual booting on a smaller partition so far, but this has convinced me to wipe the whole disk and use it for Linux only. I might still keep a dual boot in case there is some edge case, but nothing so far has been an issue. I've been running Pop_Os! which I also have on my laptop since some year back. Previously I've also always had Arch on my laptop, but always stuck with Windows for my desktop just because of gaming issues.

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[-] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

I am happily gaming on Bazzite myself BTW.

[-] glaber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

How is Bazzite different to vanilla Fedora?

[-] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

It's vanilla Fedora preconfigured for gaming on Proton, then made immutable.

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

For instance, it includes a bunch of extensions by default with gnome.

[-] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

...I'm just gonna say...

Read or visit the website first.

Or TLDR:

🔗GitHub #about--features

There's also the DOCS .

A recent Video By FunnyHQ.

[-] seadoo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sadly I just gave up on bazzite/aurora after tinkering with it for months.

Bazzite somehow nuked itself after a couple failed upgrades and eventually couldn’t even get to the boot loader. I searched around and the only GitHub issue basically said that there is corruption in the drive and to just reinstall.

so I tried aurora today, installed ok but then wouldn’t boot lol. Switched to pop os with cosmic and no problems.

Love the idea of ublue, but there are just weird problems with it for now.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm installing Bazzite on my Legion Go today, just curious how you like it, and if you ran into any problems.

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Not OP, but for me bazzite has been great. The only issue I encountered was with a KDE extension breaking KDE on the next update, but I could just rollback and remove and admittedly you could only encounter this problem if you tinker with the desktop a lot

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Do you know if there is a way to have the battery only charge to 80%. I use it mostly docked to the TV and windows has this setting but I haven't found it in Bazzite yet (only had Bazzite for like 10 hours).

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

if it's not already an option in the power settings, it should be feasible to adapt any linux laptop guide on how to do this. Look in to TLP. There may be easier options or graphical frontends too.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It turns out that steam os (Bazzite) has this already enabled. I just didn't understand what I was looking at because windows displays battery level and setting differently and the battery always read at 80% on windows when plugged in vs not. On Bazzite it reads as "full" but the bar only shows at 80% which is hard to see on a small screen but easier to see when docked to the TV. Thanks for the pointers though.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

How'd it turn out?

Built an lxc container but would consider bazzite if it does well.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Actually really good. Deckyloader took care of a lot of the stuff I needed for the legion go's native controller and so on. Only thing that's bugging me at the moment is for some reason I can't control or change the RGB for the thumb sticks or power button. The setting isn't in the controller settings where it should be. But everything else just works, and it's been great so far.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Nice.

Linux gaming has made insane leaps over the last few years, really starting to close off my last windows needs.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I have 4 maybe 5 games that I can't run on Linux to my satisfaction ATM. We'll see how that plays out as things develop more, but so far I'm very happy with my decision to run Bazzite.

[-] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What do you do though when you need to compile a driver for some hardware you have and install it manually on Bazzite? Recently had that case, and switched to Mint because of it.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

driver for what? I put all my old people on bazzite so I'm not maintaining 3 versions of windows and several linux distros and so far everything works except one printer I had to install the driver via rpm-ostree.

[-] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Bluetooth dongle by Asus, doesn't work properly without their own driver :/

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah wireless dongles can be annoying. I had a stack of intel combined wifi/bt laptop chips mooched from an old job that I had been subbing in on family computers because they just work and motherboards with built in wifi use the same ones usually. I did that thing again where I resolved the problem for myself then forgot it existed for others.

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