Is it possible to install Bazzite Deck NVIDIA image to a USB-C Samsung 2TB drive

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I have a 2TB Samsung Shield USB-C drive. Is it possible to install Bazzite on it using an older system and boot it on the Alienware R16 Gaming Desktop without installing it on the Windows 11 partition? This includes installing the required Secure Boot so I do not have disable it during the USB-C drive boot-up. At this, I do not want to install it on the main system, but running it from my USB drive should be fine if that works. I have not tried yet, but I am considering it. I would need to move backups on the 2TB drive to do that. I do not want to set up a dual-system on my newer Alienware, which runs Windows 11 24H2. was thinking of using my older Gigabyte system and installing Bazzite with the NVIDIA deck on it. Does the Alienware R16 hardware support Bazzite, or is it a bad idea to try running it with an NVIDIA RTX 4080 3D card and Intel i9 processor at this time? I also do not know whether KDE or GNOME would be more usable on it or if I should bother trying. It works great on my older desktop, but I am unsure if I need Linux on my new system with the use of a USB drive boot-up to keep it off the actual hardware’s hard drive.

Also, is there a Bazzite Windows Subsystem for Linux version now that I would try on my Windows 11 new, if even exists, to run Steam on a subsystem for Linux instead of the exe version of it?

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My Gigabyte M28U monitor has built-in audio, and it usable via Nvidia High Definition Audio. I cannot recall what it is called under KDE or GNOME desktops, but after using the Deck Nvidia on my older PC and exiting desktop mode back into Deck mode for Steam, it seems like it does retain the monitor audio system setting. Instead, it defaults back the built-in Gigabyte motherboard’s SoundBlaster sound system. Is this normal or a bug? It is fine when I want to use the motherboard’s output to my 5.1 sound system, but I do not always turn that on for regular web browsing. My is that it does not seem remember the preferred selection on the beta Nvidia Deck images. Is this a bug or a feature? Does it need to be selected under Steam Deck mode before switching to desktop mode? Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just my older desktop hardware causing this issue?

usable via Nvidia High Definition Audio is the name of it under windows 11, I think the linux sound system has another name for it. I am just posting it under windows since I don’t have my older pc turned on at this time, so I cannot tell you the name for it from linux at this time, I will edit this when I get the name for it, turning on that pc now to check on it.

should it be running verifying installion on each bootup of nvidia deck image kde version?

decky version 3.0.5 just crashed then a message about updating it happened.

I told it to reset decky that didn’t work, so I am trying restart steam next. staring steam worked, I did it after doing restart decky, for some reason decky crashed and there was a message about it getting updated, so something caused it to crash the interface in nvidia deck image for kde today when I turned on that pc. I did a update to it the other day, maybe I need to check and make sure its all updated again I guess. also if there is a way to turn on 3D web acellarator I am not sure yet how to do that, as I do not see that feature yet, the interface is just a little bit laggy on my older desktop, but it does seem to run, I have not tried playing games under it yet much, besides installing emudeck.

ok on desktop mode

emu20k2 (sound blaster x-fi titanium series) (analog stereo)

tu104 (hd audio controller digital stereo) (hdmi)

it seems to default to the emu20k2 by default.

so each time I have to select tu104 if I want audio out to my monitor.

also their is a inactive sound device called.

gp107GL High Definition audio controller profile set to off.

and a microphone device which I don’t use on my desktop

it seems like when you log off the desktop mode, the audio default back to emu20k2 over tu104, and I am not sure what gp107gl is at this time, but its disabled by default, most likely I don’t have anything plugged into that. I also have a usb type sound bar but I don’t have it turned on at this time, I am not sure which pc its currently connected to, and I don’t or have not tried any of my audio based blutooth sound devices at this time in bazzite linux. they should work most likely, I just not tested them in nvidia deck images yet.

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Im no pro but you should be able to boot bazzite as long as the bios supports it. You will have to enroll the secure boot key from the usbc drive with bazzite installed. A WSL bazzite search in the MS store will let you know if its avaliable. Your other alienware laptop should work with the Nvidia iso of bazzite if it has nvidia card.

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I don’t think so. Normal Fedora isn’t even mature yet on WSL, let alone Fedora Atomic (which Universal Blue and Bazzite is built on top on). Even with WSL Ubuntu, GUI apps support isn’t great yet, so using Steam on it is a bit much… I think you’re better off using VMware.

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There may been some confusion; I do not have an Alienware laptop. I have an Alienware desktop PC, and Nvidia Bazzite does not work for my ASUS Republic of Gam laptop its 3D card in it not support its an nvidia gtx 1070; has to use the legacy ISO images. now, I switched my old Gigabyte desktop back to Windows, and so far, no more messed up text like what was happening in deck mode. that doesn’t happen with normal steam windows app, just the linux version of it. The GNOME desktop was for the Nvidia RTX 3070 from A Gigabyte brand, but something happened during my usage of deck mode that messed it. Using DisplayPort for that PC, I didn’t the chance to see if the 3D card would also run the fans. I have three hard drives in this PC. I tried to learn if Bazzite supports dual boot, which I think does. I reinstalled it to the smallest of my hard drives for now. By default, my monitor sets up Linux at 3840 2160, 60 Hz. Fedora makes that look normal in KDE, but in GNOME, you do have to go down a bit for text and font sizes. I also play my games at 384 x 2160 and sometimes set games to run at 144 Hz and HDR on if the game supports it, but it seems like currently HDR support is broken inazzite Nvidia deck beta ISO installs. When I turn it on off, I don’t see any difference When I turn it under Windows 11, it does seem to the display. The Alienware laptop I had access to got traded in a long time ago for the ASUS Republic of Gam laptop when I had a migraine headache years ago, since it happened before Windows came out.

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Should. Disable secure boot.
Disable fast boot (If it has)
And adjust the the boot order.

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