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
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.