bazzite

Documenting my journey from Windows to Linux.

I like video games. Everyone knows the best games run on Windows. But like a lot of folks, there is a growing distrust of Microsoft. The obvious alternative, is to run Linux.

But how do you run your games on a Linux machine? Well fortunently, a bunch of folks have already thought of it. One such solution is bazzite, and it actually works rather well.

But while the games run great, its everything else that I have had problems with. So this is why I have created this list. It is a reference of software that I use as alternatves to everything else I would do on Windows.

Audio Editor	Tenacity
Audio Player	Audio Player
Download Web Video And Audio	OBS Studio
Duplicate File Finder	Czkawka
Email Client	Proton Mail
Git GUI	Gitnuro
Image Editor	GNU Image Manipulation Program
Messaging Client	Fluffychat
Password Manager	KeePassXC
Spell Checker	Eloquent
Source Code Editor	VSCodium
Video Conference	Signal Desktop
Video Player	Video Player
Virtual Private Network	Proton VPN

Integrated Development Environment

Wing Pro 11

File Manager	Dolphin
Web Browser	Firefox

Discord Client

Discord

Wing Pro

Go to download page: https://wingware.com/pub/wingpro/
Download latest version: wingpro-11.0.6.0-linux-x64.tar.bz2
Menu > Extract > Extract here
Move file contents to install location: $PATH
$PATH > Menu > Open Terminal Here
Type command “python wing-install.py”
Where do you want to install the support files for Wing Pro? “.”
Files exist in $PATH, overwrite? “y”
Where do you want to install links to the Wing Pro startup scripts? “.”

first time:

License Agreement Accept

Wing Pro: No License Found Wing is running without a valid license. You may now:

Python

Go to download page: https://www.python.org/downloads/
Download latest version: Python-3.13.9.tar.xz (Download XZ compressed source tarball)
Menu > Extract > Extract here
Move file contents to install location: $PATH
$PATH > Menu > Open Terminal Here
Type command “./configure”
Type command “make”
Type command “make test”
Type command “sudo make install”
./python –version
./python
import sys
print(sys.path)

Wing Project

Project > Project Properties…

Gitnuro

Settings

USER INTERFACE

Appearance

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Lists spacing (Beta) = Spaced
Scale = 100%
Avatar provider = Gravatar

Discord: Vesktop Still broken though.

First, you’ll need to identify the device path to use to write the image to your USB drive. Without the USB drive inserted into a port, execute the command sudo fdisk -l at a command prompt in a terminal window (if you don’t use elevated privileges with fdisk, you won’t get any output). You’ll get output that will look something (not exactly) like this, showing drives - “/dev/sdX” - containing their partitions - /dev/sdX[1-9]. Here we just have a single drive /dev/sda, with three partitions:

Plug your USB drive into your system, and run the same command, “sudo fdisk -l” a second time. The output will look something (again, not exactly) like this, showing an additional device which wasn’t there previously. Your USB drive’s path will most likely be the last one. In any case, it will be one which wasn’t present before. For our example, you can see that there is now a /dev/sdb which wasn’t previously present, a 64GB USB drive:

sudo fdisk -l

sudo dd if=bazzite-nvidia-open-stable-live.iso of=/dev/sdb conv=fsync bs=4M status=progress

Open the “Disks” application. Insert USB. Reformat.