Laptop is Republic of Gamer, and it only has nvidia 3D card, my desktop which I run linux on has nvidia rtx 3070 or 3080 card, I need to check for forgot the number of the version of it. Even bazzite Steam Deck, kde plasma and gnome nvidia edition has graphic full screen bugs still like the side menu is not working correctly, seems to do with turning on the 3D web accelerator in the steam settings. distro is based on fedora silverblue and kionite editions, and they do have the xbox controller drivers working right away, which are in garuda Gamer app, I just need to install the correct one for my controller, its a powerA xbox controller, USB type. I also own a blutooth xbox controller type gear.
if the steam UI deck mode ever works correctly, with nvidia hardware, it might be some time before its bug free, also bazzite deck mode nvidia beta os, has emuDeck app installed or installable. bazzite versions of there deck mode can be ran on my gigabyte desktop but not the laptop, since its 3D card is under legacy and does not yet work with steam deck mode, not sure it really will ever since I am not really sure the laptop hardware can handle it or not. as for the emudeck app, I already got it installed on garuda, also plan to install retroarch too at some point. I used retrobat under windows before, which is kind of like BATOCERA distro which is linux based, and is like garuda gamer for its emulators I guess.
has anyone been able to get it working, I know its just like the Big picture mode, but it can be ran on startup of your linux box, instead of kde desktop mode or gnome etc…, also after running those commands, I had to close it, since it got stuck at the wifi setup, but now steam launcher doesn’t seem to want to run, I have to reboot linux, hopefully its a easy fix to get it working again. the laptop has
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 discrete card and Intel(R) Core™ i7-7700HQ (8) @ 3.80 GHz
OS: Garuda Linux Bird of Prey x86_64
Host: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GL702VSK
Kernel: 6.13.4-zen1-1-zen
Uptime: 12 hours, 38 mins
DE: Plasma 6.3.1 (Wayland)
WM: kwin_wayland_wr
Theme: Sweet-Dark [GTK2/3]
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
Memory: 5242MiB / 11910MiB
https://ps4linux.com/forums/d/14-steamdeckui-instructions-archlinux-ps4
steam -steamos3 -steamdeck -gamepadui
steam -gamepadui
gamescope -e -h 1080 -f -- steam -gamepadui -noverifyfiles
steam -steamos3 -steamdeck -gamepadui
but running these I think I broke the steam native and runtime launchers, I might be able to fix it on my own, but I am not sure yet, since I seem to of broken the launchers in the current session of kde, I will try to reboot, and if I have to reinstall steam or run that ever fixes it under garuda, I think in bazzite you can run ujust fix-steam something like that, I am not sure but I look into it, I think under Garuda Assistant, there is not a reset steam config, so I have to look more for a fix, since again I might of broken it.
So logout and back in got steam working again.
so hybernation was not working, and I am getting crash messages in kde plasma, now I think I might switch the laptop back to bazzite evev if I can’t get steam deck ui on it. which works again with some bugs on my desktop with their nvidia beta drivers, there are some bugs, but it does somewhat work, just with the error in the text menu which I think is fixable with a few settings maybe. other reason to switch back it seems that Garuda doesn’t like my gaming controller, which does work under Bazzite, of course both have their plus and minus features, like I like arch update and install system but I am not happy with some of its bugs I am noticing.
the crashing message is from plasmashell, I will try and do a system update but if that doesn’t fix it, I got like 3 plasmashell crashing message under garuda, I do like garuda, and it doesn’t matter too much to me if secure boot is on or off, I still have 2 older laptop’s that are bios based and don’t even include secure boot.
I just finished switching back to bazzite on my laptop because of the crashing problem, and the fact Global Theme – System Settings were very broken, since each time I switched a theme, downloaded or included, it was not changing the desktop, it seem to of gotten stuck where I had to do a Alt control Delete and log out, since I lost the desktop , so something was very broken or borked on my install of Bazzite kde plasma edition of bazzite, I don’t know if it just didn’t install right or if something was wrong with the iso image I download from bazzite main website, or if that was a unfixed bug. I did all the bazzite system updates, it had trouble finding mirrors etc… for the US, in any case since then I went back to Bazzite since my gaming controller had drivers under that one fedora based working for the PowerA controller, which for whatever reason is not working in the arch based linux, but the RPM fedora , redhat based RPM version of the atomic os has it working in it and steam, which was broke also in arch linux, I don’t plan to do any more posts in garuda for now, plus its not easy getting secure boot turned on if needed to, in some linux distro’s have that working while others do not, I still don’t know as a home user if that matter much or not for linux, since again I think its more of a windows feature.
TheUser@bazzite:~$ fastfetch
TheUser@bazzite
%%%%%%====%%%%%%%%%%
%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%% bazzite-nvidia:stable
%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Bazzite 41 (FROM Fedora Kinoite)
%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%### Linux 6.12.12-203.bazzite.fc41.x86_64
%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%###### 34 mins
== =======###### Spawned on Feb 23 2025
== =========#####
%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%####======##### GL702VSK (1.0)
%%%%%%%%% %%%%%#######=====##### Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ (8) @ 3.80 GHz
%%%%%%%%% %%%#########=====##### NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile [Discrete]
%%%%%%%%% %%##########=====##### 4.05 GiB / 11.62 GiB (35%)
%%%%%%%%%====###########=====###### 18.39 GiB / 929.93 GiB (2%) - btrfs [Read-only]
%%%%%%%%====#########======###### 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz in 31" [External]
%%%%%%%=====#####========###### 100% [AC Connected]
%%%%###===============#######
%#######==========######### KDE Plasma 6.2.5
####################### KWin (Wayland)
################### bash 5.2.32
########### Ptyxis 47.6
2671 (rpm), 44 (flatpak)
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