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!

      • @zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        5•17 days ago

        Restore points for recovery if something goes wrong. Especially create a point after you are done initial setup and customization

        • RmDebArc_5English
          3•17 days ago

          Not sure if that’s as necessary with a atomic distro

        • Clay_pidginEnglish
          2•17 days ago

          I’m updating often, how would I know how far back to go? And then won’t updating again just cause the same problem?

          • RmDebArc_5English
            2•17 days ago

            Timeshift is designed to only backup every few days (or however often you like), you just have to now at which day the system was still working. Sometimes the issue simply doesn’t appear when trying again, sometimes it’s not an error with your system so if you wait a newer update can be installed

            • Clay_pidginEnglish
              1•17 days ago

              I’ve never been able to pinpoint the cause of something breaking, but maybe I’ve just been lucky enough not to have a catastrophic issue.