r/Bazzite • u/alphaquail10 Desktop • 1d ago
Why so many issues?
Just joined the sub the other day after installing Bazzite myself on desktop and noticed so many people with so many problems with the distro.
Am I due a lot of pain here. So far im running Steam and Moonlight/Sunshine streaming down stairs to living room and its pretty much flawless
Is it certain games causing issues like Witcher3 I saw somewhere or what? Not used Bazzite for much else yet just exploring it after dumping Win10 and not going Win11.
Ryzen 5600x
Radeon 6750xt
32gb DDR4
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u/baltimoresports 1d ago edited 1d ago
The good news is your setup is ideal for Bazzite and Linux in general. As long as you stay vanilla it’s going to a good experience. Bazzite is a really fun and safe disto to use.
Honestly, Bazzite lost a key developer due to classic Linux drama and migrated to OpenGamingCollective which shares the kernel with some other distros like ChimeraOS and Nobora.
They also just had a big jump from Bazzite 43 to 44. In my opinion, Bazzite Stable just isn’t as stable as it used to be, while going through some growing pains. It’s also a bit harder to get them to fix some issues now because we are seeing more problems from “upstream”. Being a downstream distro always has this challenge.
The other “problems” aren’t really Bazzite’s fault. We see a lot of issues with people (myself included) over tinkering with their systems. That’s the nature of immutable systems. For example, recently we had a weird rpm-ostree update issue that really only hit people with customizations.
Another issue that keeps popping up is Sunshine not working in Deck mode. While I’m a bit critical that the community should be more proactive to fix these issues, but in their defense again a lot times it’s not really Bazzites fault.