This will serve as the community page for Bazzite on the Framework Laptop 16. You can find the install guide for this new community support distribution here.
Get Bazzite from: https://bazzite.gg/
Official announcement: Bluefin/Bazzite for Framework laptops - Framework Laptops - Universal Blue
Amazing how much support Framework has gotten from Bazzite! Hopefully this relationship can continue to grow, and I’ll definetly give it a shot.
The entire Ublue team has bent over backward to make this rock. As the announcement says, it’s an ongoing WIP, but it’s really good right now! I am on it now (Bluefin).
Gonna overwrite Ubuntu with Bazzite. Thanks to everyone who worked on this. Steam Deck was my first Linux experience, and Bazzite is really gonna up the game for bringing that experience to my FW16. I’m only just learning about it’s existence.
So, has anyone else had an issue with non native screen resolutions? I can’t set the Framework 16 to anything other than native in Bazzite. Ubuntu and windows worked fine.
I switched to Bazzite recently after getting annoyed with certain problems in Arch. Honestly it’s a breath of fresh air at how it all just works! The immutable aspect is new to me but generally documentation for most things is fine.
It’s also the first time I’ve enjoyed using KDE.
Just got Framework 16 Ryzen 7840HS, and I am loving Bazzite, but I have encountered a weird problem with the login in KDE. After updating using the software update tool, when I login, instead of starting up KDE, I get another login screen. No matter how many times I login, I get a new login screen.
I have found a work around by going to a tty and logging in there, then starting plasma with /usr/bin/startplasma, and its not that much of a time suck, just a few more steps, but I wonder what’s going on?
Using loginctl -list-sessions I can see that the login screen is still going in the background. Also when I log in via tty and get into plasma, kded6 requires my password to log into the local network (something I assume the login screen passes when its working normally?)
Edit: I should mention that I tried rebasing to the original install, but that didn’t change the behavior of the login screen on reboot.
Solved: this problem stemmed from my having edited my .bashrc to switch into zsh at the end of the script. You learn something new everyday!
