Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don’t end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.
One thing i will say though, even though the state of gaming has drastically improved since my first foray into linux, the “fine details” of gaming have not. Fuck me the first time i looked into the modding scene on linux and how much busywork that took, that just killed a little bit of my soul. Even trying to get her game open, we first had a xbox game controller bluetooth not connecting issue, my bandaid was to do a wired connection, and sitting here just now i hear a laugh and look back and see this in her game. What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error, but the game works. Its rough, but it works.
It’ll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure
To fix the missing videos, use Proton-GE. Easiest method: Download it with Proton-up QT (bundled with Bazzite) then chose Proton-GE from the game’s Steam compatibility settings.
It’s because they use proprietary codecs that Valve can’t freely distribute.
It’s because they use proprietary codecs that Valve can’t freely distribute.
Interesting… I knew this was the solution to the video issue, but didn’t know why.
AFAIK Proton-GE uses VLC and Valve is from the US, where VLC is considered to breach some codec licenses I believe h264 decoding in particular. But I’m not sure, it’s been a long time since I’ve read about it.
Good job on bazzite. I hope you torrented that game tho instead of giving even more money to that transphobic piece of shit.
You could’ve just ask ;)
To fix Xbox controller connect it to an Xbox console and update its firmware.
To fix some videos not playing in games, switch from stock Proton to GE-Proton, you can install ProtonPlus or ProtonUpQt from your desktop store for easy Proton installs, newly installed Proton versions show up after Steam restart.
Nvidia and Linux is possibly the most dysfunctional and hateful relationship in all of existence.
There was no mention of this, but if you’re dual booting (which I don’t recommend to anyone anymore) that might be causing the Bluetooth issue. Windows doesn’t properly “let go” of some Hardware when you “shut down” with default settings. This is because the default settings are to hibernate instead of properly shutting down. Linux boots up and the hardware doesn’t load correctly.
I hate to be that guy, but this is just the Linux BT stack being… Not great. Don’t get me wrong, I love Linux, but Bluetooth is one area I still see issues with every other update. Headphones using wrong audio codec, devices dropping out, incorrect ordering of trust login actions, etc.
Interesting. Do I have to double shutdown?
If I remember correctly, I think the solutions are to disable Fast Boot and Hibernation in Windows, then shut down?
Which, this solves a lot of Windows issues even if you don’t use Linux.
You are seeing the truth of why normies should not switch lol. Its way more work than people tell you and if you dont find it fun like I do , you’ll hate it.
Super weird that you upgraded your fiance’s computer to Linux, but not your own? What’s the driving factor here that led to using your partner as a lab rat?
She asked me to?
Ah, that adds a lot of context. Sorry, the post just sounded like this was a “you” initiative.
Nah lol she really doesn’t like the big AI push that windows is doing and suggested Linux, NGL I was surprised and a little proud
Maybe Tiny 11 was the answer?
Oh it’s the transphobic billionaire’s game. Nice 👍
First mistake using bazzite second mistake not using cachy.
Third mistake? Playing Hogwarts that game just wants to not be played it’s wildly hard to get to work right for some damn reason.
Highly recommend Cachy as well. The only issues I’ve had running games are the games that do funky windows calls, like checking if edge is installed, before running well.
So far, CachyOS has been great for me. KDE Plasma pimped out looks great also.
Switched over someone I know just recently. No headaches. Video card worked without issue from the jump and they’ve been playing Fallout 76 on it with more stability than they ever had with Windows. I put it on my own machine a few months back, and it was the same. Smooth. Either I got double lucky or you got unlucky.
Do you mind sharing what the issues were/was?
I’m the pool of people where my computer “just worked” when installing Bazzite.
Not OP but I installed Bazzite on my old previous rig, Intel/nVidia system (i9-9900k/1080) last week. I’ve already installed Mint on multiple machines as well as my daily driver.
The regular ISO would not install and black screen. I couldn’t resolve whatever issues there were on the F2 screens and almost gave up. Later I read on some forum about deleting existing partitions on the install drive might help, so I tried the Live ISO instead and it booted into the environment just fine. The old NVME drive had an existing Windows install that I was planning on overwriting. I ran Gparted, selected the two partitions and hit delete, then install. The progress bar stalled a bit on the nVidia part but it finished install.
The only problem I have now is wifi/bluetooth, as it’s not recognized for some reason.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10
(edit - fixed the wifi/bt problem, not sure when but I had it disabled in the BIOS for some reason)
Looks like it was Nvidia drivers… Might have had trouble with any other distro then too.
I was a dum dum and installed the wrong version of Bazzite for my graphics card. If someone is having drivers issues the first thing I’d check is if they have the right version for their card, and then check that the card is actually recognized. Immediately fixed most of my problems by installing the correct version.
Now if I could get my Steelseries headset chatmix to work reliably I’d be 100% happy lol.
I think there are some ujust recipes related to Nvidia drivers, but not sure since I’ve never had to use them.
what card?
JKR is very windows
What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error
My guess is, your system is missing a video codec, probably a gstreamer plugin like libav (I don’t know what its called on Bazzite, something like gst-plugin-libav or gst-libav …).
If you would start the game from console or find the steam log file you should see a error message. (I’m not at home now and rarely use steam, so I can’t look it up now).
close, but it would actually be missing the codec in proton. bazzite actually comes with a very comprehensive ffmpeg build and all its dependencies.
steam just can’t include those proprietary libs in proton. luckily, protonge exists for this exact reason.
I plan on making a post of my own personal experiences in the coming weeks. However, I will issue caution to others who may believe themselves to be higher on the tech savvy ladder: forget most of what you do with Windows and accept that Linux, no matter the distro or DE, is not going to be 100% like your previous Windows experiences. Tech peeps typically have a high level of OS/system customization. These don’t usually translate well to a non-Windows OS. On other “managed” operating systems, you might try things, but not be able to really do damage. If you try to force it with Linux, you will fuck yourself.
I’m really concerned about my MiL and wife as they both have machines with NVidia cards. My wife and her mother play Sims 3, as well. Her mom’s game, specifically, is extremely mod-heavy and she is religious about updating her mods when patches drop (she’s retired so has a shit ton of time to do that monthly, I guess). I’ve talked to her about getting off Windows, but I’m nervous to get her on any version of Linux because 1) I don’t play Sims 3 nor do mods for it, 2) I’m a tech-baby with Linux troubleshooting, unlike Windows, and 3) I’m just a registry editor 💔, so I’m concerned I won’t be able to support her potential sticking points with it and Sims 3 and it’ll further entrench her against Windows and change, in general.
Good luck on your journey, regardless. The people in this community are pretty great (including the Arch and Vi users, I guess)! Totally wasn’t held at gun point while saying that last bit. Nope, not at all!
However, I will issue caution to others who may believe themselves to be higher on the tech savvy ladder: forget most of what you do with Windows and accept that Linux, no matter the distro or DE, is not going to be 100% like your previous Windows experiences. Tech peeps typically have a high level of OS/system customization. These don’t usually translate well to a non-Windows OS. On other “managed” operating systems, you might try things, but not be able to really do damage. If you try to force it with Linux, you will fuck yourself.
This, right here, if you’re a tech savvy windows user considering migrating, read the above until you’ve internalized it. Don’t trust me? Go watch Linus from LTT use Linux and break everything in a matter of hours because he literally answered “Yes, I know what I’m doing” when he had no idea.
It’s my experience that tech savvy windows users know enough to be a danger to themselves, and worse, have the confidence to shoot themselves in the foot.
Yeah, i have an example of this. I spent since time today building a local copy of handbrake have it run in a distrobox of arch to get AMD hardware acceleration as an option. The flatpak version refused to do this. It wasn’t too bad, but still wild i did this.
