I made a comparison video, and honestly, the results were surprising—check it out and let me know what you think!

I genuinely CAN’T TAKE THIS INSTALLER ANYMORE 💀

I’m trying to install Bazzite in dual boot with Windows using separate SSDs and Bazzite REFUSES to install.

Error:

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Installation of the system failed:

Creating ext4 on /dev/sda2

org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Error:

mount failed: fsopen() failed: Operation not supported

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And YES, I already tried basically EVERYTHING:

✅ Physically removed the Windows SSD

✅ Secure Boot OFF

✅ Rufus

✅ Fedora Media Writer

✅ Re-downloaded the ISO

✅ wipefs

✅ Fresh GPT partition table

✅ Btrfs

✅ SSD SMART health check (all good)

✅ AHCI

✅ No RAID/RST/VMD

AND THE DAMN ERROR STILL HAPPENS.

The weirdest part:

it ALWAYS fails specifically when creating the ext4 /boot partition.

The installer literally:

- creates GPT

- creates Btrfs

- detects everything correctly

- then reaches ext4 /boot and just DIES.

AMD CPU here btw.

Has anyone seen this before?

Because at this point I’m starting to believe this specific Bazzite build just hates my PC 😭

Funny enough, I have had very little trouble fixing crashes or small bugs but theres a very consistent problem that has been for all of my distros from ubuntu to cachyos to now, bazzite.
It is that shadows and lights ghost BADLY without ray reconstruction. I have tried every number of launch properties but none seem to affect it. Motion blur is indeed disabled and it helped slightly.

Everything only goes away if i have DLSS enabled and put above performance which TANKS my FPS.
Down the line:
NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 L
Ultra Performance
Ray recon = on
Raytrace = on
everything else off or low
=35-40 fps on a good day

trying to upgrade to performance crushes fps below 30 which is unplayable to me

Is FSR just unusable for any amount of quality? Am I missing a driver or some launch option/optimization I was unaware of? I know Nvidia tends to not play well but I didnt expect it to perform THIS badly on linux even with a 3080. I would like very much not to have to deal with my windows dual boot partition but performance on it is much MUCH better. I would almost rather research how to VM it.

EDIT:
CURRENT launch args:
PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_ENABLE_NGX_UPDATER=1 PROTON_NVIDIA_LIBS=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=enable_experimental_features PROTON_VKD3D_HEAP=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=enable_experimental_features,descriptor_heap gamescope -f --hdr-enabled -r 165 -W 3440 -H 1440 -- %command%

GE-Proton10-34
ALSO TRIED proton-cachyos-10.0-20260424-slr-x86_64

Its worth noting it wasnt always this bloated. I was throwing everything at the wall just to see if performance even changed and it never got worse or better.

System:
Host: bazzite Kernel: 6.19.14-ogc1.1.fc44.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.6.4 Distro: Bazzite 44.20260501.0 (Kinoite)
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: X870E AORUS ELITE WIFI7 v: x.x
serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: American Megatrends LLC.
v: F12a date: 03/11/2026
CPU:
Info: 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 5519
min/max: 624/5756
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080 Lite Hash Rate] driver: nvidia
v: 595.71.05
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Granite Ridge [Radeon Graphics]
driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.22 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.10
compositors: 1: Gamescope 2: kwin_wayland driver:
gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 3440x1440~165Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 595.71.05
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: amd-smi, nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info,wlr-randr x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.44 GiB
used: 19.32 GiB (63.5%)

Took some time for me to decide on what Distro I wanted, waited on both my flash drives to arrive (one for Bazzite and one for to create a Windows installation (if I ever needed to go back for whatever reason) but I'm ready.

For those wondering my browser is Zen.

I have recently switched from windows to Cachyos. For the most part, have things that I need figured out. I am curious though, I seem to get much lower FPS in games, optimized the same in windows and cachyos. For example, Arma, which we know isn't very well optimized, I was getting about 140-160 FPS. Optimized the same in Cahcyos, im only getting about 65-80.

For reference i have a 7800x3d and a 5070. I believe I have the latest drivers installed.

Any recommendations on things to check?

Recently updated cachyos proton which incorporates proton 11 beta, and it fixed all space marine 2 issues. I ran a 2 hour online session and it was rock solid performance.

System:

Kernel: 6.17.0-23-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Device-1: gip0.0 model: Microsoft Xbox Controller serial: N/A charge: 100% (should be ignored)

I am getting doubled inputs from my controller which causes bad behavior in games.

• In first person games if I walk forward with the left analog stick the player also begins looking up.
• Using the right analog stick also has strange issues like the player turning diagonally.

Outside of games:

• The left analog stick moves the mouse cursor. This happens regardless if Steam is active or not.
• Moving the right analog stick moves the mouse cursor horizontally only.
• Pressing triggers moves the cursor up or down but afterwards the mouse cursor will always drift upwards regardless of whether I'm pushing any buttons or touching the analog sticks, and the only solution is to unplug the controller.
• The A key was just placing the letter "p" in text editors for some reason. However an actual 'paste' action had different data in it. After I manually copied different data "A" no longer put down the letter "p".
• The B button acts as if I am right-clicking and opens a list menu.

I think that games are receiving doubled-up inputs when I playing so I'm just looking to disable whatever it is that lets you move your mouse and do other inputs when a controller is plugged in. I did review the Accessibility settings in the System Settings and I'm not seeing any way to disable controller/joystick inputs.

There is surprisingly little info on this issue on Google and elsewhere.

I saw this post but it's for Arch and the instructions don't seem applicable:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=365876

For whatever reason I can't get Gmod to work for the life of me. Everytime I tried to load up some models I wanted to use I will just crash. It would take me a few times of crashing and going back in just to finish loading up the models and then even after they have loaded there is still a chance I could crash randomly when just doing random things. For example, I disabled all my mods to see if it is my mods that are making me crash or something else, so I started to spawn Rebels and Combine soldiers across the map and then I spawned in a city scanner. When I got to try to move the city scanner with my physicsgun, Gmod just immediately crashes each time. I just want to know if there is a way to fix this cause it is getting really fucking old fast.

Lately I was playing CS2 and I tried to open up a player's profile and it showed me the profile in in-game overlay like it would normally do in Windows or x11! I couldn't click anything or scroll through the profile page and had to restart the game but I could see it tho they may be cooking something for Wayland.

Hello all,
I have recently moved to Fedora KDE 44, it has been fun..apart from the occasional quirk. Recently I installed Rocket League from HGL, works fine, using Steam as a middle man for controller support for my Pro Controller. What happened was, I was in 1v1 1m left on clock, suddenly the whole window just disappeared, which Im assuming is a crash. Latest version of Proton-GE is installed, EAC runtime with steam runtime is installed.

Specs:
Ryzen 5 5600H
GTX 1650 as gpu1 with latest proprietary nvidia
integrated radeon graphics,,no fuckin idea the driver
kernel v6.19.14

lmk if u guys need more information or specs

I need help. I have a friend who has already tried 3 or 4 different Linux distributions and can't connect to Wi-Fi. He told me he's tried absolutely everything. His adapter is a MediaTek mt7902

So, all of us know gaming have problems on Linux and not everyone is smart enough to solve them. I don't know if I am the only one having these problems, but I tried everything, installed steam flat hub, steam normal, reinstalled steam, reinstalled Linux mint itself, reinstalled proton, different versions of proton, asked chat gpt, searched online solution, but got no help.

Problems =
1. Non steam games don't have icons and logo.
2. Non steam games having short screen and text size (Low dpi thing).
3. Unable to access game properties in steam.
4. Unable to change proton version in compatibility.
5. Unable to add any storage (other than the default one).
6. Unable to remove non-steam games.
7.

I don't know if anyone have or had any of these problems. But unfortunately, I do. So ended up created some scripts to tackle with these problems which manually edit the config files and let you do what you can't because of bugs or glitch or whatever.

What my steam tool can do =
1. Can add icon and logo on any non-steam game. (You must have the icon saved in game folder).
2. Can change dpi automatically every time you add a non-steam game. (No need to change it from wine config)
3. Can set a specific proton version for a specific game by selecting from downloaded proton version (you can download them from proton plus).
4. Can remove non-steam games from your library.

I also created a script in which you don't have to use steam to play your non steam game you can run it directly by right clicking the .exe game file (it will run in proton). so it removes the steam part in the process which is kinda useless if you don't wanna use steam as a launcher.

The whole reason I did this is that i just don't wanna use any extra package to install game or third party launchers. I wanna keep my system as clean as possible. And wanna do things easily (too lazy to work hard 😂).

If anyone want I can share the tool and help to use it.

• Steam client date: 28/04/2026
• Distribution: Ubuntu

steam doesn't let me add a new drive when using steam -dev console command
library_folder_add /media/games/steam-library
steam returns with : Failed mounting that path!

In the settings clicking the add drive button only creates a steamapps subfolder and nothing else

I did set up my drives so that they could be accessed by all users by following the instructions of the top answer on this question, and it has been working perfectly fine other than this issue.

Also the drive has been formatted ext4 so I am genuinly confused at what could be causing this.

I posted this on github issues steam for linux but got no answers so I wanted to try my luck here.

Hi ! I've been using linux (Fedora KDE) since the end of Win10 support, and since then it's been amazing. Last week I've installed Starfield on Linux via Steam to play the new DLC, and played for a bit. Today while trying to start the game, nothing. Tried other games, same problem, the games just do not start (Starfield, No Man's Sky, Guild Wars 2, only Sky : Children of Light works for some reason). No error messages, when hitting the green play button, Steam starts the cycle (vulkan shaders, etc) then it stops without even starting the games. Any idea what might be happening ? Thanks.

Hello I just want start this off by saying I am under 18 so please don't reccomend something weird.

Hey I am bored of playing roblox battlegrounds games so I want to try something new could you please reccomend me a game.

Games I have tried:

AngleDust

Roblox

thats all and by the way im on fedora linux and am broke so if its free that would be apprecaited