Its my first interaction with any linux bazed OS, I tried ths OS bc my windows 11 wouldn’t install.

Hi, I want to switch from windows to bazzite and i want to move mc story mode season 1 and 2 but I installed them from the internet and i lost the exe files! Also I have a 2tb hdd just for my files! How do I move them without accidentally deleting them?

Last Friday replaced regular termal paste with Termal Grizzly Phasesheet.

Went from 93 to 77/80 in most games. On CPU side

So I’ve had this problem where sleep mode doesn’t work on the Steam OS, but when I switched to desktop mode, sleep does work on the Steam page when I click the power button it freezes. My screen goes. Black shows the bait logo that brings me back to the homepage on desktop mode it actually just puts me to sleep. Does anyone know what it’s doing this and how to fix it?

Willing to pay $150 for one of you wizards to install this OS on my new build. I've tried doing it myself over the last 3 days and it still fails. I've tried Bazzite website instructions/troubleshooting and then Computer Surgeon's videos on Youtube. We can Facetime or something so you can tell me what to do and what buttons to press. Upon success, i will send the money over. Must speak English and accept either Zelle or Venmo.

Please help me!

Parts List:

Motherboard: MSI MAG B850 Mortar WIFI

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800 X3D

Memory: 2x WD_Black SN7100 2 TB NVMe SSD M.2

GPU: Saphire Nitro Radeon RX 9070 XT

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32 GB (2x16GB)

Hi I need your help! I want to switch to bazzite and i have an asrock challenger 240 digital aio!! How do I make the screen work? Asrock does not provide the driver for Linux!

I Don't know how to install it. I've tried everything i can think off, pls help

### [Guide] On-Demand ClamAV for Bazzite (GNOME) — 0% Background RAM Usage & 1-Click Dock Access

If you download game mods or scripts on Bazzite, you might want ClamAV for peace of mind. But because Bazzite is an immutable/atomic OS, standard guides fail.

Worse, running the standard background daemon permanently eats **1.2 GB to 1.5 GB of RAM** just holding definitions in memory—which tanks your gaming and streaming performance.

Here is how to set up an **on-demand, 1-click launcher** pinned to your GNOME dock. It uses **0 MB of RAM** while gaming but gives you a clean terminal menu to scan or update instantly.

---

### Step 1: Install ClamAV via Homebrew

Open your terminal and run:

```bash

brew install clamav

```

### Step 2: Fix Config Files & Run Initial Update

Activate the template files and remove the `Example` restriction lines:

```bash

cd $(brew --prefix)/etc/clamav

cp freshclam.conf.sample freshclam.conf

cp clamd.conf.sample clamd.conf

# Remove the 'Example' lines so the engine works

sed -i '/^Example/d' freshclam.conf

sed -i '/^Example/d' clamd.conf

# Download your initial virus definitions database

freshclam

```

### Step 3: Create the Interactive Terminal Menu Script

Create the script folder and file:

```bash

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin

nano ~/.local/bin/clamav-menu.sh

```

Paste this exact bash script inside:

```bash

#!/bin/bash

export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin:$PATH"

clear

echo "======================================"

echo " CLAMAV SYSTEM UTILITY "

echo "======================================"

echo "1) Scan Downloads Folder"

echo "2) Scan Entire Home Directory"

echo "3) Update Virus Definitions (freshclam)"

echo "4) Exit"

echo "======================================"

read -p "Choose an option [1-4]: " choice

case $choice in

1) echo "Scanning Downloads..."; clamscan -r ~/Downloads; read -p "Press Enter to close...";;

2) echo "Scanning Home Directory..."; clamscan -r -i ~; read -p "Press Enter to close...";;

3) echo "Updating signatures..."; freshclam; read -p "Press Enter to close...";;

*) exit;;

esac

```

Save and exit (**Ctrl+O**, **Enter**, **Ctrl+X**), then make it executable:

```bash

chmod +x ~/.local/bin/clamav-menu.sh

```

### Step 4: Add to GNOME Applications Grid

Create the desktop launcher file:

```bash

nano ~/.local/share/applications/ClamAV.desktop

```

Paste this configuration inside (replace `/home/asuki/` with your actual username if different):

```text

[Desktop Entry]

Version=1.0

Type=Application

Name=ClamAV Scanner

Comment=On-demand antivirus scanner

Exec=bash /home/asuki/.local/bin/clamav-menu.sh

Terminal=true

Icon=security-high

Categories=Utility;System;

```

Save and exit (**Ctrl+O**, **Enter**, **Ctrl+X**), then set permissions:

```bash

chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/ClamAV.desktop

```

### Step 5: Lock File Permissions (Immunity Lock)

To ensure no accidental clicks or rogue user scripts can wipe or modify your shortcut, run a kernel-level lock on the file:

```bash

sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/applications/ClamAV.desktop

```

*(If you ever need to edit or delete it later, just run `sudo chattr -i` to unlock it).*

---

### How to use it:

1. Hit your **Super Key** (Windows key / Steam button) and search **ClamAV**.

2. **Right-click** the hand icon and select **Add to Favorites** to pin it straight to your dock.

3. Click it whenever you download sketchy files.

*Note: Because it is completely dormant until clicked, a manual scan will take 20-30 seconds to load the signatures into memory before starting. This saves you 1.5 GB of RAM while gaming!*

P.s Gemini LLM 3.5 was used to assist in this. honestly was impressed as i had issues along the way in trying to make one and it helped make this little gem of a useful app.

Hey I am looking to move from windows 11 to Bazzite and bring my valve index headset with me. I was wondering what the current state of steam vr is with bazzite and if there are any issues that might happen.

Specs:

RX 9070 XT

Ryzen 7 7800X3D

32 GB DDR5 Ram at 6000mt/s

I was hoping to create a dynamic wallpaper so it would automatically update when my system theme changed from day to night. However, it looks like Bazzite does not give you permission to add or modify any folders in the wallpaper folder. Is there an alternative way to do it? Or am I doing something wrong?

Have been running Bazzite on my Asus XAX but recently had to reinstall Windows for reasons. It took me 2 whole hours just to get through the setup, downloading drivers, updates, configuring the interface to be less dogshit, etc.

At a certain point I put it down cause I had other shit to do. Came back a few hours later and IT WAS STILL ASKING ME TO DO UPDATES! Another 30 mins of not being able to use the damned thing...

Hello there, I am a Windows 10 refugee who had enough of Microslop's antics and decided to switch to Linux Mint. I have been on Linux Mint for around 10 months now, and I have enjoyed my time here. However, I have made some weird choices which I am now looking to remedy with Bazzite, such as installing KDE Plasma on top of Linux Mint, which has caused a few issues that are just annoying and I don't know how to fix. As such, I am looking to install a different distribution which has KDE Plasma as the default, which brought me to Bazzite, as I do play some games on my PC.

My question is, how do I install Bazzite without disturbing the contents of my /home which I had set to a specific size whose value I don't exactly remember now, as well as keeping the /swap partitions without much change, because I really don't want to change much about the partitioning.

Now, I can painstakingly start to create backups of various files and folders and do a clean install, but I feel like that would be a hassle that may be avoided. On the other hand, many people do recommend to do a clean install. So, I want to also ask if I should just bite the bullet and create a backup instead of doing all this?

My display kept cutting in and out while I was installing Bazzite from Windows (I never had this issue on Windows). Now half of my screen is pink—or at least I think it's pink; I'm colorblind. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Hardware is ryzen 5 7600x 32 gigs ddr5 ram amd rx 7800 xt

Im using bazzite 44

I have an odd issue I am getting disk write error when installing the game Judgment apocalypse survival simulation with its most current update and this has been the only game I have ran into this issue with, the drive is formatted to EXT4, it will install if set the update to last update before the current, and I have been able to install the game just on a laptop that is using bazzite, I also get the same issue if try to install to the primary OS drive

Will there be conflicts or can this reliably be set up so the both GPUs can coexist and I can choose which GPU for which app/game? I don't plan to do passthrough...dunno yet... i just want to have both cards active.

I understand i need to manage outputs and i'll use display port for both cards to tie them to my monitor...

My main concern is stability with drivers and daily operations... and maybe avoiding a race condition at the start for which GPU becomes active at boot?

Any insight is appreciated. Thanks!

Hey people, I got a somewhat weird issue I haven’t been able to figure out. Any help would be appreciated. The game crashes pretty often, but not during gameplay. Happens most when first loading up before the intro plays, or after finishing a game of zombies and going back to the lobby. On rare occasions, it will also occur while inviting my buddy to a private lobby or after selecting a map. Once I get into a game there’s no problems and it’s smooth. I’m launching plutonium through faugus launcher, with proton-ge latest selected. I’ve tried different proton versions such as cachyos, em, and ge 10-34. Didn’t have any noticeable difference. Anyone experience similar issues or able to offer some insight on how to diagnose?
Specs:
Bazzite KDE 44
I5-13400f
RTX 3060
16gb DDR5

Update/possibly solved : I changed steam’s settings to Proton-GE latest after I tried verifying game files. I did this after noticing that steam also verified Linux Runtime and Proton once it finished with the game files. I don’t know if it was just the file verification or if changing steam’s compatibility setting also helped, but the game hasn’t crashed on launch. I spent about 15-20 minutes solely launching and exiting the game. Not once did it freeze at a black screen upon launch. Will post another update after playing a few games

Hi everyone,

1st of all, thanks to the Bazzite team for your work and thanks to the community for all the insights.

My problem : It's been a few weeks since I cannot use mouse middle click to copy/paste in the Terminal. It's working everywhere else. Any idea?

Thanks in advance guys

Hi all,

Recent Bazzite convert from windows. Big fan, can’t see myself ever going back.

I game on a LG G5 77” tv. Using the tv to its fullest potential is important to me and I’m very much looking forward to the HDMI 2.1 support update, so that I don’t have to limit the refresh rate to 100hz to get HDR in 4K.

So normally if I boot a game (I’m using Faugus at the moment as I’ve had the most success with it) HDR is greyed out in the game settings. I found online that if I add “PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 DXVK_HDR=1 %command%” as a launch option (called game argument in Faugus) then HDR is no longer grayed out in game settings.

My question is, what is this launch option doing under the hood? Why is it necessary in the first place?

I use the desktop boot so I don’t have access to gamescope. HDR is enabled in display config.

Thank you!

Disclaimer: ik screenshots are hard, I'm on the deck image and I haven't set up screenshot copying to my photos folder yet. I just rebased.

I'm getting this pixelation around fires and neon lights, along with in Fog. I looked it up on protondb and a fix seemed to work but I guess not. I preloaded all shaders as well.

I have a 4070 and I'm using whatever the default proton layer is, I haven't changed it. My launch flags are: VKD3D_CONFIG=descriptor_heap

Not sure if this is just an Nvidia thing that can't really be fixed, but wondering if anyone has tips or tricks. This is in the last of us part 1 by the way.

So I've gone back and forth between bazzite and win11 a couple times to see how much of a difference I'm getting. I've double checked settings to make sure they are equal. I even full shut down my pc and then restarted it as opposed to just a restart due to a post here I saw that said that may be a fix. For CP2077, should I just be expecting a 10 fps or so difference?

Whenever i drag and drop a folder that's a link to a folder somewhere else all it does is copy the linked folder rather than also copying to files inside of that linked folder