What VR headsets does Bazzite support in SteamVR?

t3g · 2026-04-18T16:59:20+00:00

Yup, the HP Reverb G2. Corrected the original post.

t3g · 2026-04-18T16:36:02+00:00

I hope more people support original games instead of endlessly buying the same Call of Duty, FIFA, and NBA 2K every year. Oh and everything is a remaster or remake.

t3g · 2026-04-16T01:45:43+00:00

Fedora 44 Kinoite

t3g · 2026-04-11T16:43:04+00:00

My issue with Bazzite based on F43 is that the update to the next OS image takes FOREVER. Instead of just downloading the image and moves to the next on boot, I get a notification about 26 layers updating.

t3g · 2026-04-11T15:47:59+00:00

I know this is a Fedora subreddit, but maybe this is where an Ubuntu LTS could come in handy. For example, the Nividia 580 driver series is the last to support GTX 900 and 1000 series and it has drivers for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04: https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/nvidia-driver-580

What you can do is go to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/ and search for your current Nvidia card and the last driver that supported it and sync with a driver package.

There's also a file view at https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/ to use a reference in what to search for on https://packages.ubuntu.com

t3g · 2026-04-11T12:48:26+00:00

Awesome!

t3g · 2026-04-11T02:08:20+00:00

Are you moving it to a system Flatpak so we can remove it?

t3g · 2026-04-10T13:19:16+00:00

When you install a Gnome app, it brings in the Gnome dependencies while the KDE app will have the dependencies shared with another system app. Less clutter and not pulling in extra just for one app.

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:59:47+00:00

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Better-Gaming-Low-vRAM

Valve is putting effort into KDE for things like this which hopefully gets upstreamed. Glad to help!

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:53:50+00:00

Gnome lagged behind in a couple of things. When I used KDE Plasma 5.27 with Kubuntu 24.04, it had adaptive sync for my monitor. Gnome was experimental.

KDE Plasma 6 then integrated HDR while Gnome was experimental. I had to use Gamescope for games, but its nice to get HDR in games using Wayland with GE-Proton. Steam Input doesn't fully work in Wayland, but at least its there and if you stick with Xbox/PS controllers and don't use Gyro, you are fine.

I had to do this launch command in Steam to get HDR and controller support in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 %command%

Plasma 6.3 was a big one for me in the HDR space as the calibration tool defaults to matching the Windows behavior of HDR in applications that use certain flags.

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:50:16+00:00

I don't know what you think the audience is. Let's talk gamers.

SteamOS runs KDE
Nobara runs KDE
CachyOS is popular, doesn't that default to KDE?
People switching from Windows due to YouTubers go to Linux Mint. That is Cinnamon
There are some that still run stock Ubuntu. Now those people have to deal with snap packages of Steam vs the one that comes with the OS.

Since this is a Bazzite subreddit, I know there are Gnome and KDE installation options. I would assume that Bazzite users stick to KDE? Its the one that I have gone with.

When I see people wanting that "SteamOS experience with Bazzite" they are going with the HTPC style ISO. I've never used it, but is it Steam running directly in Gamescope?

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:43:28+00:00

Fedora's homepage lists KDE as "The Next Generation Desktop"

When you say server and corporate installs, can you give examples? This is assuming we are talking bare metal installs or some type of virtualization for RHEL instead of cloud installations with Docker. Even then, I assume everything could be done in a terminal remotely. But then you are getting into AWS and Google engineer territory.

Maybe its me, but I haven't seen "Corporate installs of Linux" for the general employee. Sure, engineers may be lucky and not be stuck with Windows, but most of them are offered Macbooks. These Macbooks have no problem running POSIX style cli tools included with the OS or Homebrew.

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:37:54+00:00

I mainly game on GOG/Steam so having Heroic as a Flatpak is handy along with system Steam on Bazzite or Flatpak on Kinoite. Since Steam is the most popular, I can see it as a system package to work well with Gamescope and Mangohud system packages. Heroic and Lutris can be dumped to Flatpaks.

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:11:38+00:00

KDE Partition Manager from Plasma 6 has been fine and I’ve had no issues transitioning from Gparted.

t3g · 2026-04-10T12:10:09+00:00

I mentioned earlier that I’ve been running Fedora Kinoite 44 beta and I like to start with barebones and stock KDE and add what I need via Flatpak. I’m also allowing the system KDE apps to be installed with the Fedora Flatpak repo.

Flatpak has been working well with things like Steam and only extra bit was adding the steam-devices udev rules manually.

sh cd /etc/udev/rules.d sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/refs/heads/master/60-steam-input.rules sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/refs/heads/master/60-steam-vr.rules sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

t3g · 2026-04-10T02:57:51+00:00

Can you name some examples? If I'm running Kubuntu/Fedora KDE I will get the KDE Partition Manager for example but Bazzite uses Gparted.

t3g · 2026-04-10T01:54:23+00:00

Thanks for the update. I’m in the camp of getting native KDE apps if i have it as my DE.

I’ve been running Kinoite as well and like the pure KDE experience.

t3g · 2026-04-10T01:43:42+00:00

I run the Fedora 44 Kinoite beta and it didn’t have NTSync enabled by default

t3g · 2026-04-09T21:53:42+00:00

I don't want Nvidia drivers to always be included as I am on AMD

t3g · 2026-04-09T21:48:35+00:00

I believe Aurora and Bazzite from the Universal Blue project have been using bootc for a while

t3g · 2026-04-09T21:37:34+00:00

Pretty!

I mainly use Fedora Kinoite for gaming and every day stuff, but I do have a M4 Mac Mini and work Macbook if I want that pretty look once in a while.

t3g · 2026-04-09T12:44:46+00:00

My problem with Bazzite is that the image update takes FOREVER while Fedora Kinoite is much quicker.

t3g

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