StarvingMartist

Finally switched my fiancee to bazzite, fuck me was it a trial

https://sh.itjust.works/post/49223254

Finally switched my fiancee to bazzite, fuck me was it a trial - sh.itjust.works

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. [https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/20461553-705e-40c2-a32d-e577554b087a.jpeg] It’ll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure

Nov 5 at 2:44amWeb
Show threadhperrinNov 5

Yes, you need closed source Nvidia drivers. That’s a pretty heavily discussed topic. Basically, it’s because Nvidia refuses to open source their drivers. They’ve started open sourcing some components, which is nice, for sure, but not enough to game on. I buy AMD video cards specifically because they work really well on Linux without any work at all.

I’m surprised you’re seeing issues on Hogwarts Legacy though. My wife and I have been playing it over the last few months on two different machines both with Bazzite and haven’t had any issues at all. We don’t use Nvidia cards, so it might be an issue with Nvidia’s drivers.

Show threadonlookerNov 5
I only hope that people who still think that Nvidia drivers on Linux are an old issue that’s been solved ages ago, see this post and this comment. It got slightly better, but the problem never went away. Yet, anyway.
Show threadFauxLivingNov 5
The post where the user is missing proprietary multimedia codecs, unrelated to NVIDIA drivers or the comment by the person decrying the problems had by NVIDIA users despite not using NVIDIA cards?
Show threadonlookerNov 6

What do you mean “unrelated to NVIDIA drivers”? It’s literally the first sentence of OP’s post (emphasis mine):

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.

Show threadPearOfJudesNov 5
Weirdly enough linuxmint with lutris + steam works fine for me. I followed this guide in order to figure out lutris configurations. Don’t download protonupqt though, just download through lutris.
Show threadwarmasterNov 5

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.

Show threadproleNov 6

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.

Show threadluckyeddyNov 6

Do you mind sharing what the issues were/was?

I’m the pool of people where my computer “just worked” when installing Bazzite.

Show threadproleNov 6
Looks like it was Nvidia drivers… Might have had trouble with any other distro then too.
Show threadsnowsuit2654Nov 6

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.

Show threadproleNov 7
I think there are some ujust recipes related to Nvidia drivers, but not sure since I’ve never had to use them.