Howdy,
I’ve installed Bazzite a couple times before (PC) but kept putting off installing it on my OG Steam Deck. I finally did so last night and while reinstalling some games, I noticed the fans going crazy (granted it was plugged in and writing to disk).
I turned on the performance overlay and watched it for a bit. I’m consistently getting a temperature of 80F to 82F while unplugged, not installing games, in a 70F room. I don’t have comparisons from SteamOS, but I’m also sitting at the home screen with 56-67% CPU usage. In this scenario, the fans are also repeatedly ramping up and down (not all the way down) in ~5 second intervals. This was the biggest contrast from when I had SteamOS installed.
Switching to desktop has utilization down to 3 or 4%. I’m not sure if gamemode has it’s own fan profiles, but I no longer hear the fans either (likely due to being at 3% cpu)
Is this expected or is there something I can look at more closely to try and identify a cause?