Bazzite for gaming, initial impressions and setup
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- In this video, I will be going through what I like about Bazzite and how it has exceeded my expectations and where other gaming distros fall short.
After that I jump into a small demo on how to setup Steam and Lutris and I end off with how to install other software using the discover app.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to Bazzite and first impressions
01:10 Where are other gaming distros falling short?
02:15 How does Bazzite solve the problems with gaming on Linux?
03:19 A quick demo of Bazzite
03:26 Using X11 rather than Wayland if you have an NVidia GPU
04:06 Enable compatibility mode in Steam and install GE-Proton
04:24 Installing GE-Proton with Proton-UP
05:07 Enabling Steam compatibility mode to run Windows games
06:27 Using ProtonDB to check if other users have managed to run a game
06:55 Playing non-steam games with Lutris
07:20 Adding Battle.net source to Lutris
07:43 How to install a game store in Lutris
08:29 Adding the Battle.net client in Lutris
08:49 Installing additional software in Bazzite
09:44 Pinning apps to the task bar
09:57 Updating Bazzite
10:40 Conclusion - Навчання та стиль
Great overview, not too lengthy, thanks!
Glad that you liked it. Thanks!
I love this video, your voice is so soothing
Thank you so much for the complement 😃
Love this video dude. Good work
Glad that you enjoyed it! Thank you very much for the feedback.
Thank you for this video , i'm new to linux as i'm thinking about switching cause of win11 continually getting worse with each revision and not liking the direction MS is going , i couldn't test bazzite out on my usb so this video was super informative , i was originally gonna try nobara but this sold me on giving bazzite a go first specially thanks to you explaining How to do things once into the system which is something i wasn't sure of when just jumping into a image on usb.
Thank you so much for the feedback. Nobara isn't a bad choice either for gaming but I am preferring Bazzite at the moment. I hope the install works well, make sure you join the Bazzite discord, they are super helpful on there.
For win11 I fresh installed, and then used atlasOS and or Chris Titus util, then paused any updates and it works perfectly and NEVER changes
@@zohzie I haven't used AtalOS but I agree Chris Titus Winutil is fantastic. I use that on every Windows install I have.
I need something that is both good for gaming out of the box, has good security and freedom and can be used for various different windows productivity apps. Is this it?
For me, this is it, but you might have a different experience depending on your use case.
tl;dr;
Gaming has been good so far, provided that the game doesn't actively prevent the game from running on Linux. Security is pretty good with it's atomic filesystem images and Tailscale VPN is pre-installed. For Windows productivity software, it's a hit and miss depending on the software.
@@mikes-tech-tips Appreciate the reply.
how does it work with multiple monitors and scaling?
I'm using a laptop with an NVidia GPU and multiple monitors works great in the KDE version of Bazzite. When I use X11 global scaling works perfectly but you cannot scale individual monitors. If you use Wayland individual monitor scaling works nicely (but gaming with Wayland and NVidia are not great at the moment). I'm not sure about the Gnome version of Bazzite, but I suspect it would be the same.
I tried to install Bazzite on my setup (i5-8500/RTX 2060) and performance was really great, but unfortunately there is this audio crackling with everything that I could not seem to get rid of. From looking around, it seems to be caused by something related to HDR on Fedora 39? Not quite sure what that means since I'm not using an HDR monitor so no idea how I could deal with that
Here is what I would try:
* Make sure you are using an x11 session if you are using NVidia, if you using wayland you get all sorts of issues. But I don't think that this would impact your audio. But not 100% sure of this
* If you are using HDMI audio, try plug in headphones directly see if you still have the crackling.
* If you installed this weekend, you might be on Bazzite 3.0 which is based on Fedora 40 (which just released) which seems to have a number of problems. I would try rebasing to the last version (Bazzite 2.5) which was still based on Fedora 39. The command to do this is "rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia:39-stable-20240419" without the quotes
Let me know if you come right. It also might be worth joining the Bazzite discord, they are very friendly and helpful.
@@mikes-tech-tips Thanks for the tips! I think something might have just gone wrong with the installation. Just reinstalled the entire thing and all of the sudden I got no issues now! Going on x11 definitely does help with things so maybe I only really needed to do that but going for a full reinstall never hurts
@nickc572 Wonderful news and weird that its suddenly working. If everything is working 100% i'd run the command "sudo ostree admin pin 0" this will permanently pin your current image so if there is a bad future update, you can always boot back into this version.
Man I'm so salty about the Wayland/x11 thing lol
I installed this onto a spare drive to dual boot on my PC a few weeks ago. I was experiencing terrible flickering from active windows hopping in and out of existence, tried reinstalling drivers and crap for a day and then gave up and wiped the drive. Thanks for the headsup though, I got everything back up and running and I'm just waiting for my favorite games to install.
Yeah Fedora is really pushing Wayland, which affects everything downstream. If you do a fresh install Bazzite and you have an NVidia card, it will now select X11 by default which makes it easier for NVidia users. Wayland is quite close to being ready for AMD and other GPU users, but not quite there yet. Enjoy the gaming! :)
Good video, but none of this is out of box experience, outside of nVidia support, I dont see much value in this OS, SteamOS is far more user friendly, being presented with a login box is the first negative point, and every-time you reboot, login, wait 5 minutes, login again, this is okay if you are using it as a Desktop PC, but what if its a HTPC, or open source game console? You may only have a media remote and a gamepad connected, doesnt seem like a good choice at all, when downloading the image, the website asks you, I selected HTPC, and I got a full desktop environment, not really OOB to me.
Thank you for your honest feedback. Currently the Game Mode support is only for AMD and Intel Arc GPU users but I hope that this will change with the release of NVK in the new mesa drivers for NVidia users. But agreed, as it stands it is only good as a gaming desktop if you are using NVidia.
@@mikes-tech-tips Yes im just testing the "deck" image, which is what I expected for a HTPC, Its actually easier to install Windows 10, use gpedit and swap the windows gui for steam and you end up with a full Deck/Console experience that is 100% game compatible, this is all we need in linux as well, replace KDE with Steam BPM job done, one should not have to go GPU hunting to do it, Intel igpu's are well supported in Linux, I used in Home streaming on my HTPC's any way, and I know a lot others do aswell.
I am using Bazzite for desktop gaming and still enjoying it but you've got some good points on the HTPC experience. Maybe give Bazzite another try in a month or two, I think that there are some big improvements coming. And again, thanks for the feedback :)
@@mikes-tech-tips Yes i will have to try it again later, the deck image just results in a black screen, testing HoloISO now.
So you running this on Nvidia ?
In the demo it's running Bazzite in Virtualbox so I can record easily but I'm running it on my desktop with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.... which I need to upgrade at some point.
@@mikes-tech-tips yeah , I did try bazzite long before . Can't really fix flickering on my 970 , how did it go with your 1050 ? I'm thinking about to try it again with these new release. I try it long before at their first release.
@@4n4Queen No issues so far with the 1050 as long as I select X11. Sadly no game mode yet for Nvidia but hoping that will change with the opensource drivers.
So that distro doesn't have the Steam game mode? I guess I'll stick with Chimera os, it just sucks that Chimera comes with Gnome desktop, and I dislike that desktop
Hi Alex. Thanks for the feedback. If you select AMD or Intel Arc for your graphics card while picking the options before you download Bazzite, you have the option to select "Steam Gaming Mode". This isn't available for NVidia GPU users, however, that might change once opensource NVK driver is released and stable.
It has game mode. You can select if you want to boot into game mode or the desktop when selecting your desktop environment ISO version. Game mode requires an AMD GPU however.
Why don't you just change the desktop?
@@mikes-tech-tips Curious, what keeps Nvidia GPUs from working with steam gaming mode?
I think that game mode was only designed to work with the opensource Mesa drivers and NVidia has been slow in coming to the party with opensource drivers. Apparently once the opensource NVK driver is ready then we might get game mode in Bazzite for Nvidia GPUs but I think that is still a few months away
Linux is for lowend gamer, if you want quality like all new Features from nvidia, only windows is the way. Nvidia, HDR, VRR, RTX HDR, DLSS Rayreconstruction, Framegeneratin, GPU undervolting or OC, all together you dont get it at once in linux. Even in 2030 you wont get. The communtity is big on linux but they dont put the efford together. Also to much distros, then not equal kernel version, moddified kernels.... Wayland, x11 or much more, whats the right to choose. Noway, stay away as a gamer from linux if you want quality gaming.
I would have agreed with you 2 years ago. NVidia... yeah... quite good in Bazzite but Windows is better still, hoping NVK is good. We will see what happens in 2030 I have high hopes for Linux, will see were it goes .😃
@@mikes-tech-tips i Hope too, for to long
What effort to be put together when the source is closed ? Look at what they can do with AMD open source driver. The problem is with nvidia that so salty to make it open.