I have it on my gaming machine. Stuff works :)
I wonder about this change:
- ROCM OpenCL is now used over Mesa OpenCL on all non-nvidia images.
Usually I would expect the Mesa stuff to work better and in a more generic way than what one GPU manufacturer makes.
Does anyone have any pointers for the reasoning of the move?
I like bazzite. It’s not for my desktop, but I do like it.
I put it on my old and dying LCD steam deck. It did good, fixed some problems, extended the life of the thing a bit.
Idk if I like bazzite or not. I started my Linux change around 5 months ago I think. Started with cachy os. I think it was going fine but something slowly broke so I changed to bazzite 2 months ago I think.
The fun part is it’s quick to just distro hop. I have my backups all okay so that helps a lot. When everything works both was working fine and easy I feel.
But when something starts to get wonky, I’m kind of struggling a bit more with bazzite due to the atomic nature. Idk that’s just the vibe I’m feeling.
Were you using an AMD graphic card with HDMI 2.1 connection to a monitor/TV?
Because it happened to me that the HDMI connection stopped working after a Bazzite update, and I had to downgrade to Bazzite 44.20260802 (see the Github ticket here), which seems to be the last stable release without the problem.
My understanding is that the problem is still present in Bazzite 45… and it likely won’t be resolved until the next Kernel update (7.3.1) lands. The good news is that it just recently was updated on the unstable branch… I haven’t tested but if the issue is fixed there, I’m hopping it will be ready by the end of this month, since they normally roll updates every few weeks.
I installed it but left soon enough. Weird, inconvenient ways of installing software. Many workarounds built in. I like the idea of immutable distro but this seemed like an accumulation of fixes on top of it.
I have been using Bazzite as my main os for nearly a year now. I tried to swap to linux a few times over the last ~15 years, and always had to go back to windows. I like the atomic nature of it, while it does making installing some software a little harder the peace of mind I gain more than makes up for it for me.
10 years ago, after another random Bluescreen i burned a debian install disk, deciding to install it the next time windows bluescreens on me. It took maybe a week. And then another week to start distro hopping, as debian and gaming isnt really a good combination. Hopped around spending most of my time on manjaro and arch, but the last year on bazzite was really chill. Most of the daily stuff mostly just runs. And the stuff das doesn’t is mostly play around stuff where i dont mind playing around the atomic aspect
Last time I tried to install bazzite, it told me to f off because I have other distros installed. Is that still the case?
I used it a few years ago multibooting and it I don’t recall it complaining then
I think they fixed that IIRC. Not agreat experience
