Greetings!
I’m rebuilding my old gaming-focused beast. I’ve got parts coming today (new mobo, cpu, ram, and cooling unit, everything else I hope to reuse, to keep this cheap as possible), and I’ll be building it up tomorrow (thermal paste arrives tomorrow 😭)
I have no need for this computer to do anything but gaming, as I have others that can’t handle gaming for that. So I’m thinking a gaming-focused distro would be good. However this is nowhere near top of the line hardware, I’m aiming to run mostly cpu-heavy games (stuff like rimworld and oxygen not included), as I really like having way too much going on at once. So maybe that changes things.
I’ve had an absolute hell of a time getting games to run through lutris on stock Ubuntu. I’m hoping bazzite will improve that somewhat. It probably won’t.
But I understand it’s fedora based, which is a big new thing for me as I’ve only messed with Debian-based. And there’s probably a lot I’ve not considered.
So what do I need to know? What would be helpful to know before I start this? Any good resources you can point me toward for gaming on bazzite, like install troubleshooting guides or something that might make this less of a nightmare? (Seriously I can only get a handful of games installed that should be able to run, and that’s with an absolute ton of effort, very frustrating.)
Thanks in advance!
The only issue I had was on bazzite 41, the automated media creator refused to make functional install media. I installed silverbpue first, then rebased with no issues. Its been good for almost a year now and runs everything I have tried except pubg.
I don’t know what rebase means. When you say install media, do you mean like a live USB? I legit don’t even remember how I made the Ubuntu one, now that I think of it…
You don’t need to learn about rebase, but if you want to: bazzite is built on top of ublue, which is built on top of fedora. Atomic uses layers and images, like docker containers, which means when they install stuff they add layers with what they want to add. Since they share foundations, you can switch between them with a single command. Basically it would be like if you installed Debian, but wanted to switch to Ubuntu. You could run a single command to “rebase” then when you reboot you would be switched over.
You’re correct, live USB or install media are the same thing in this context.