after having tried a couple of linux distros, nuking them with the terminal and exasperating in trying to get things to work with an AI I decided to join here to ask some questions. The Terminal is more responsibility than i can handle alone, thus i get to entertain you with my problems
So first off, something that occurs is that the system feels a bit too sluggish for what it is. Videos are stuttery, text has a delay to it etc. So i thought maybe the PC uses the CPU for graphics stuff. Its a 2080TI watercooled, 32gb of decent RAM and a gen 13 Intel i7 CPU. So i asked the AI and it recommends this:
1 Select Plasma X11 instead of wayland when logging in. I dont have that option. presumably Plasma is not installed? I have seen Plasma when I used CachyOs but havent seen that in other distros. So no id what that is except the desktop looks different on Plasma.
2 Verify secure boot. Run this: ujust enroll-secure-boot-key to check and follow commands to get the key enrolled. Is this a good idea? I dont want to nuke a fourth system so im hesitant to do this.
3 Disable GSP Firmware via this command: nvidia-smi --query-gpu=gsp.mode.current --format=csv and this one sudo rpm-ostree kargs – append=“nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0”. Again is this a good idea? I have no clue what any of this means.
There is one more challenge though: I tried to do this beforehand but my terminal is not accepting my password. Now I use the same PW for the drive encryption and the profile login. And I typed it very deliberately into the Terminal so im quite sure there is no spelling mistake. Any idea why that might be? I have the english version of Bazzite, but use a German keyboard layout. Is the Terminal using the US Keyboard? Thats the only thing I can think of.
So id like to ask for some help in finding out why the Terminal is behaving differently than in all other Linux distros Ive tried and also to solve the micro stuttering of my system.
Welcome @AdmirAlex . To quickly put your mind at ease some … what you describe are things encountered by others who are new to Linux.
I use bluefin instead of bazzite and so would not be able to give specific advice. But I have been using Linux based OSes for many years.
* first, please do not try to follow advice from an AI chat bot without having an expert available to help verify and confirm the advice you get. The advice is almost always wrong. One of the reasons is that the AI cannot tell which H/W you have, what OS you are using and at what “versions”. I placed “versions” in quotes because that concept is complex. But they are necessary to be specified completely to form meaningful advice - in terms of steps to perform. And as someone who is new to Linux OSes you can not possibly know which information (including “versions”) are pertinent to your problem. Sort of a common chicken-and-egg problem.
For example, all variants of Fedora / RedHat OSes only have Wayland available for the last few “versions”. X11 is not available anymore. So all advice involving changing config for an X11 session cannot possibly work (at least without very advanced understanding of Wayland and X11; and soon both GNOME and KDE will remove X11 completely). Even though KDE Plasma is available on Bazzite.
That covers 1 and 3 above.
* Unfortunately for 2 above there is a known issue upstream wrt the enrolling secure boot key step when using a non-US keyboard. But I have read somewhere that a fix is coming that will allow any keyboard layout to be used (e.g., german layout in your case).
* You might be better off asking about all of this in the discord channel for bazzite as recommended in the pinned article for the Bazzite topic area here.
Okay got it, leave the AI for good (shouldnt have taken a couple nukes, but hey it was fun at least).
I wasnt aware that discord is the place to go. I ll check it out
There is also something weird happening. Before I installed Bazzite I had CachyOs on the system. Presumably i made a mistake with the hard drives during installation (to be honest i find linux installation menus confusing, Why isnt there a format, merge, create new functionalty like in windows?) because somehow the two versions got mixed up:
In the terminal it says: mycomputername@cachyos. But im in Bazzite? Also when the PC boots the encryption password and the profile password are the ones i configured in Bazzite, however the password for the terminal and when I log out and login again are the ones I used on CachyOs. How is that possible?
That kinda leads me to getting a program that can wipe my harddrives and install it again. Anyone ever had that happen?
