Will the new Bazzite deck Nvidia Images work with new Alienware R16 Pc's, since only tried it on my older G1 Assassins 2 Gigabyte motherboard it runs on that

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I have so far installed it on my older gigabyte which has 32 ram of DDR3, in the pc has intel i7 processor and nvidia rtx 2080 3D card and built in soundcard sound blaster, this below is the brand, again nvidia deck images work on the G1 Assassin 2 motherboard which I have had for years, its old, but it runs the Steam deck mode just fine, I had first installed gnome with the iso image then I switched to kde with its iso image on the installed hard drive.

G1.Assassin 2 (rev. 1.0) Support | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

My Alienware R16 has an Intel Core i9-14900KF 3.20 GHz processor and an Nvidia RTX 4080 Super 3D card with DDR5 memory and some RGB lights on the case. I am unsure if OpenRGB supports it yet. I use a SteelSeries keyboard, which also has RGB lights and a wireless Logitech mouse and charging pad. It runs games well, and I could run the Steam app on it if I wanted to from Windows 11. Link to desktop and info about it. I went with the Liquid cooling one. no reason yet to switch to Linux on it, but I would like to know if bazzite would work on it if in the future I chose to install it, it again works on my older gigabyte desktop, I used to have a z690 gigabyte motherboard, but that desktop broke on me, it didn’t last any more than 2 to 3 years, that’s all I say about that. the older dual bios motherboard has outlived its newer desktop version that I tried to replace it with at home, why I switched to a prebuilt desktop, since the last custom built desktop me and my dad did didn’t last as long, during shutdown the RGB lights didn’t turn off last I tried the z690 AORUS master, motherboard, its case was a cooler master like my older gigabyte has but the newer case also had its problems, which I will not go into here.

Alienware R16 Gaming Desktop with Air Cooling & Liquid Cooling | Dell United States

I noticed that GNOME seemed more stable on my older desktop, which is a Gigabyte Intel i7 with an Nvidia RTX 2080 3D card and DDR3 memory. I had downloaded both bazzite-de-nvidia-stable-amd64 and bazziteck-nvidia-gnome-stable-amd64 and used the Universal-USB-Installer-2.0.2.6 to put the ISO of both on my PNY USB. Any ideas if my newer PC could run this version of Linux? understand that some features might be unstable at this time. plan on installing it on my laptop but have not yet; I think I will try the GNOME image it.

My laptop features an Intel i7 7700HQ CPU @ .80GHz, 12GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1070. It is compatible with Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite images, I am certain that NVIDIA Deck images are not supported for it. Given the laptop’s age, I believe legacy Bazzite is required.

about my Alienware new pc desktop, one aspect of using a Windows 11 is that my Alienware also serves as a platform for the Xbox app, which allows me to access cross-compatible games with my Series X console. I appreciate having access to these games, but the Xbox app does not run under the Lutris app as far as I know, which can support Epic Games, EA games, and others like GOG Galaxy, Ubisoft connect and so on. The Xbox app is not yet simple to run with Wine on Linux I don’t think Bazzite has achieved compatibility for it yet. Once it does I could potentially drop Windows 11 entirely I choose to. However, the games I own through the Xbox app only work on Windows 11. Additionally, I don’t have a compelling reason to replace Windows with Linux on that hardware yet. For my older PCs that ran Windows 10 I do have several reasons for switching to Linux, but only on my older hardware at home.

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Another issue I have encountered is the need to scan and repair external hard drive 4TB version on Windows before they can be mounted under Linux. This has happened several times over the years. For instance, my WD My Book requires repair as long as it is in the Windows format system exFAT. I have also used the NTFS format before. In any case, scanning repairing are sometimes necessary. I am unsure if I unplug them too soon clicking on eject or disconnecting the USB too quickly from the front of the machines. it is able to mount it in linux, as long as it doesn’t detect any problems, but repairing first under windows is needed, I don’t have the time or will not change them from a readable format in windows since I access the drives data in both windows and linux, I need them usable under both. No errors were found, but it needs to run it, in order to mount it under linux, I don’t know if there is a linux version of scan and repair to allow mounting under linux but it doesn’t prompt you about that in desktop mode of nvidia deck images, but its more of a general linux distro problem, since it happens to them all.

but in this case, I had to go into the app for setup the mount point, the message I got was still happening.

I had to do reformat or edit with partition manager

An error occurred while accessing ‘USB2extHDD’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed" Error mounting /dev/sdd2 at/run/media/Robbie/USB2extHDD: fsconfig system call failed: /dev/sdd2: can’t open blockdev

While editing with the partition manager, I created a mount point and subsequently mounted it using the application.

afterwards it mounted and loaded, but that’s the error I got while using nvidia deck image of kde desktop, when trying to load the WD My Books name on front of USB drive, its a 4TB drive. this problem doesn’t always happen, but a fix or update might be needed, I don’t fully understand why blockdev was unable to mount it, but the error maybe should be looked into. if its adv. stuff I am good at some linux stuff but that doesn’t mean I understand it all, I can run games, and fix some linux stuff, but my skills vary when it comes to linux. Under Partition Manager, the drive had to be mounted and unmounted within the application for some reason. It seemed to lack the permission to mount it independently, as I had to use my root password with KDE Partition Manager to mount and unmount the drive.