So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don’t spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn’t go as expected).
I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it’s a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.
Here are some things that I couldn’t find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->
1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out
I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I’ve switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.
(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :
sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules
Then enter the following in the file :
KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"
Keep in mind that you may have “card1” instead of “card0” you can check it by doing an ls within
/sys/class/drm/
Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :
cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high
2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.
this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome
Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never
This should fix it.
But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don’t think they have a fix for this yet.
3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)
This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I’d share.
Just symlink the Game directories you want to
.steam/steam/steamapps/common
like :
ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder
For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/
I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don’t work unless you start the container.
I hope this post helps someone out.