Bazzite constantly crashing
Hello !
I am a complete Linux newbie that made the switch to Linux from Windows yesterday. I was really tempted by the Bazzite's positive buzz on the internet. I flashed a USB drive and installed the system on my 250 GB M2 SSD. I wanted to use the other 2 TB M2 SSD for games and programs but have no idea how to use it in Linux despite formatting in btrfs and creating a partition :-(.
My main problem is that the system crashes all the time when I launch Steam (either the pre-installed one or the one from the Discover app that's a flatpak I think) or even when I casually browse the net on Vivaldi. A crash occurs sometimes a second after trying to open one of those apps, sometimes it takes a few minutes. Sometimes right after I click download on any Steam game. I managed to even launch Half-Life once and played for 5 minutes until the screen just went black with just the cursor visible and then I couldn't do anything and had to hard reset the PC.
The problem mainly manifests as one of the following:
-Screen goes black and nothing happens. Requires hard reset
-Screen goes black and only the cursor is visible. Requires hard reset
- Everything on the screen freezes in place. Requires hard reset
-Rarely the screen just goes black for a moment and then the system automatically reboots
I've tried reinstalling the system 2 times but that didn't help. I switched to X11 (during log-in) after having even more issues with Wayland like windows flickering. I also switched to bazzite-stable (NVK) and back to Nvidia-stable but that also didn't help. Tried updating all the packages. The drivers that are pre-installed with the system are 550.78 and I only use one 1440p monitor via DisplayPort.
System specs:
i7-8700K
RTX 2080 Ti
16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
250 GB M2 SSD (Bazzite is installed on this one)
2 TB M2 SSD (Formatted to btrfs with a single partition, no files on it)
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NVidia and Wayland do not play well together, so you want to be on the bazzite-nvidia image and use X11. So it might be worth disabling sleep, turn off screen etc in the settings panel. What version of Bazzite are you on. You can get that info by running in the terminal
rpm-ostree status