Hello,
since the last Bazzite update, I have a major problem. Two of the issues already existed before, but I hoped they would disappear on their own with the next big update. Unfortunately, it has gotten worse.
I haven’t done anything that could have caused the problems. Aside from having a lot of non-Steam games (which makes a reinstallation very time-consuming), I usually know what I’m doing.
To the simplest part: The desktop – since the update that added Bazzar as an app store – is there and does start, but it is offline. I believe the associated service is not running properly.
The main problem is the gaming mode – a lot is broken there:
FSR is no longer available. No idea why, it’s simply gone.
In the “System” menu, if I can even select it (sometimes it freezes for 1–2 seconds and skips the item completely), the OS channel is set to unstable, and the Steam channel to Steam Deck stable. No idea what’s going on there.
Every restart in gaming mode leads to an endless “Steam is closing” loading screen. The only thing that helps is holding down the power button and restarting.
In gaming mode, there is a ghost version of my SSD with random numbers.
I think that’s everything – and all of this has been happening since the last or at the latest the update before that.
I don’t see any way to fix all this manually. Therefore my question:
Is there a way to get the OS to completely reinstall the entire gaming stack and rewrite all settings and configurations?
A rebase didn’t help. I don’t want to spend the next weeks or months reinstalling about 1 TB of non-Steam games.
Yes, in Gaming Mode – and only there – it shows “Unstable” for some reason. On the desktop, however, it shows “Stable”. I even switched to “Testing” and re-based back to “Stable”, but that doesn’t change anything. Gaming Mode is half broken, and only there it shows “Unstable”. Changing anything doesn’t help either.
“Wow, just the storage space I’d need for that, and the amount of work—it would keep me busy for days. The fact that I’d have to buy an extra SSD just for backups was exactly why I said that!”
It seems like you might need to build a NAS (Network Attached Storage) if you have enough data that you need to buy a new drive to store your important data.
I try to keep as little important data on my PC as possible to avoid issues with reinstalling.
Are you a Windows user? I don’t mean that in a condescending way, but in 20 years of using a Mac, I’ve only ever done a reinstall once – and that was intentional.
I think the problem lies in my home directory, not the OS. After all, it’s a clone of every other Bazzite Stable system.
If I just back everything up now, I’ll probably carry the same error over again.
That’s why I was hoping I could delete everything that isn’t my personal data – like configs, local system overrides, etc. – and then have those regenerated or overwritten.
That would probably fix the issue.
But that’s where my Linux knowledge ends, which is why I was hoping someone here might know if and how that can be done.
Anecdotal phrases like that wont help you anywhere. I still have my main windows install from 10 years back(release date) and I have moved it to two new builds. I also have many clients that have reimaged their imacs multiple times because of instability issues. That means nothing. We are not in the win XP era anymore.
Can you please run ujust fix-reset-steam in the terminal ?
This is a known steam gamemode bug that I had in my deck. have you tried removing the ghost disks in the steam storage menu?
I know you said that but can you please explain to me how you have installed non steam games manually as you said? are they cracked games or just games that you have added on lutris heroic and then added to steam? did you manually create prefixes on steam and install your games in them?
Can you also please paste the result of rpm-ostree status ?
First of all, I only wrote that “20 years” part because it’s the standard answer, and I’m a bit allergic to it, since it’s always the absolute last resort.
Most of my games are from GOG or Epic, installed via Heroic. I also have many older PC games from CD or DVD images. Only a small number actually come from Steam — maybe 15% at most.
So, running ujst fix-reset-steam doesn’t change anything. In Gaming Mode, it’s still set to Unstable, and trying to change that still leads to the endless shutting down Steam logo rotation.
All the other issues are still there too.
This is the output from status — you can also see the Testing branch I mentioned, to check if it makes any difference:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:stable
Digest: sha256:308783769ddf7450b76837670cfb4eef915f42b04fca85d6c18efe67e289d78c
Version: 42.20250708.1 (2025-07-09T00:37:02Z)
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-deck:testing
Digest: sha256:9e922207311aa7245e6dba758169a0833a545893fe7c376c9ea526c4fc20be07
Version: testing-42.20250708.5 (2025-07-08T23:58:41Z)
About the eject issue: since the ghost drive only offers the format option and has exactly the same size as my SSD, I’ll skip it.
It also shows up even when no SD card is in the Deck — but only in Gaming Mode.
In Desktop Mode, everything works perfectly, except for Bazaar. PS: Oh, and here’s my device info: UNTITLED - Pastebin Service
I’m also having problems with bazaar connecting on Bazzite desktop with KDE. I get this message from bazaar on initial launch (ever since the update):
Could not retrieve remote content: failed to synchronize appstream data for remote ‘flathub’: While pulling appstream2/x86_64 from remote flathub: No such metadata object da0a6e6cbee442da42c7c6f59d84f06fb202b4ef224aaf48b35a24a96927609a.commit
Afterwards, bazaar shows offline and after closing it, the process lingers in the background. It also can’t tell what’s installed on my system in this state. It works perfectly on my laptop running Bazzite Gnome.
And I also use Heroic a lot, if that’s relevant in any way.
I’ve managed to solve my bazaar problem, maybe you’re having the same thing. For me it was a second flathub remote with the same name.
So what you can do is check if you have this second remote too:
flatpak remotes -d
If there’s two named flathub, you probably have the same problem as I did. To test it, I disabled this second remote in warehouse temporarily. After doing this, bazaar functions normally again. To properly solve it then, I removed the second remote with
flatpak --user remote-delete flathub
This will then tell you which flatpaks it has to uninstall in order to remove the remote. I noted those for reference and confirmed the uninstallation. After that I reinstalled the ones from the list that I wanted installed again, this time from the bazzite-set remote. And after that I ran
ujust _install-system-flatpaks
just to be safe that everything is there that the system needs.
Hey,
I finally went ahead and reinstalled the system. Everything’s mostly fine, but after reinstalling I still don’t see FSR as an option.
I copied over some files by hand, but I’ve got no idea what might be causing the problem again.
I’m guessing Bazzite didn’t remove the feature from the GUI. All I did was move some stuff into .local and .var.
I also switched from KDE to GNOME, so I cleaned up before that and only took the stuff I really needed.
Any idea what I might’ve copied that brought the bug back?
And what should I delete to get a clean Gaming Mode setup?