I installed bazzite on my PC with the option of gaming mode. I'm trying to figure out how to get LACT installed on this system so that I can undervolt my AMD card. I don't see the option in Bazzite Portal.

I had missed this news recently with my view of Linux being somewhat narrower and newer - but it seems LACT has increased tooling for Nvidia GPUs.

For someone with lower experience this broadens the accessibility of GPU monitoring tools and brings me closer to parity with Windows GPU tweaking (wishlisting undervolting Nvidia for 2025!)

I had previously been following a script / command to limit power usage of my Nvidia card, however LACT seemingly does the same thing via a GUI slider - along with other helpful info about the GPU in operation. I was able to tweak the power slider and see real time results when applied and while running a game.

Unfortunately this failed to install correctly from the Bazzite portal as confirmed in the log, I believe perhaps because the portal halted for almost an hour and did not ask me for any root credentidals (as it did on subsequent attempts). Then when attempting again after rebooting - it reported it was installed, but was nowhere to be found after a further reboot. I eventually fixed it when following some instruction on ublue discussions (I'll edit with the link when I get home).

Hi! After multiple attempts at trying to install LACT on Bazzite it seems like it ain't "compatible"? Whenever you click the "Enable AMD Overclock" it gives back a text box with one or two errors, I've read the Github explanation about a Boot Parameter solution, but when I go to edit the Grub file it doesn't even have the parameter that I'm supposed to add, when I added it manually it's like nothing happened (even after re-building the Grub file), so my understanding is that it ain't compatible yet? (Maybe I'm doing something wrong with the Boot parameter? It seemed a bit complicated)

Anyone else had this issue?

What's the correct way to install LACT on Bazzite?

Hi there! Sorry if I'm being an idiot, but I've been trying to figure things out for a few hours, searching here and there but I'm still at a loss. I've recently taken the leap and set up a dual boot Bazzite, and so far having a blast, even though I have to relearn a lot of things.

Latest issue is I'm trying to set up an undervolt/overclock profile for my RX 7900 XTX, and managed to unlock all options in LACT, but nothing I do seems to apply. I figured I'd try undervolting first, but Mangohud still shows the same value. To make sure, I've tried setting the fan at a fixed 100%, but that doesn't kick in either after applying. Am I missing something? Yes, it's the correct GPU (I've disabled onboard chipset in BIOS).

Please don't bash me too hard.

Edit: my investigations and reading of https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl/-/issues/460 point me to a driver level issue with my GPU, as I seem to be unable to change settings using Corectrl as well. Still investigating to clear the fog and try to find a solution/workaround.

I’m trying to reduce GPU power consumption on my ROG Ally running Bazzite to free up more power for the CPU (for CPU-intensive Games). I installed LACT, but it only allows adjusting the GPU clock speed. Even when I lower the frequency to 1200MHz, the power consumption remains high.

I assume this is because the voltage stays the same, so lowering the clock alone doesn’t reduce power usage effectively. On Windows, tools like Adrenaline or MorePowerTool allow undervolting, but I couldn’t find a proper way to do it on Linux.

I was wondering how does a Nvidia GPU run using Bazzite? I’m still new to Bazzite. I’ve been watching tutorials on YouTube and seeing how things work. I’m using my ROG Ally to test things out. It’s a huge learning curve compared to Windows. I do want at one point make a dual boot gaming PC but I wanna make sure before I make the final decision. So far I’m enjoying Bazzite. Games do run better even if it’s a few more frames. My battery life has seen improvements. Are there any issues?

Hello all, recent linux convert here (at least enough to test it out over the course of this long weekend for me). My rig has a Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB for gpu, and it has worked well enough for me for the past 2 years on windows 10 with the amd adrenaline software. I had followed a detailed guide for that software for undervolt/overclock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOKaEKdusZQ, but am having issues figuring out how to translate these settings to Bazzite KDE desktop setup via LACT. I understand the min-max GPU clock bars alongside the max vram clock, but I am unsure of what the minimum vram clock, the GPU voltage offset, and the performance level/power profile mode selections. The power usage limit for my card is shown as 213w with a default of 186.

I tried Mint and it almost made me go back to windows until a guy beckoned me to just try bazzite before making such a big decision. So far, much happier than I was with Mint but still got some stuff to figure out as the title states

Does anyone have any apps or programs to suggest, and also how to actually make them work? I suck with the terminal

And any other general advice you might have?

Thank you!!!!

Hi Guys,

Building budget gaming setup and need your help. I have ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WIFI II motherboard with Ryzen 5 5600x and 16GB DDR4 (will add another 16GB when find good price).

The question is which GPU to get. AMD supposed to have better Linux support but NVidia has better performance. What GPU would you recommend for balance price\performance to have a fairly good and future-proof set up?

I'm using Bazzite on a Gigabyte G5, i5-10500h RTX3060 and have tried using LACT to control my fan speeds but it can't detect any fans.

Is there something I can do to try and have them detected or is there an alternative service I could make use of?

This is mainly frustrating because Bazzite actually enables me to finally fully switch over to Linux, but if I can't keep my fans from maxing out on every game it's unfortunately a deal breaker.

Hi everyone! How's it going? I had a 7800 Xt and used Bazzite normally. Performance was always above Windows and I was quite happy with the results. The thing is, I bought an XFX Swift 9070xt and, after that, I did a clean install of Bazzite, but the performance is below expectations. I notice that the GPU clocks are much lower, running around 1700MHz, with the card's power running around 100W. I've already installed LatCt to try to configure it manually, but the settings don't seem to change anything. I even reinstalled Bazzite just to be sure, but nothing changed. Just as an aside, I downloaded the latest ISO version and updated everything using uJustUpdate. Has anyone else experienced this and could help me figure out where I might be going wrong? Thanks!

I'm currently dual booting Windows 11 and I have Fedora Gnome and CachyOS KDE Plasma. I'm thinking about potentially switching to Bazzite instead since I also enjoyed using Nobara but because it's one man project, it was often broken and it took long time to receive an update.

I'm tired of Windows constantly breaking my AMD drivers.

I enjoy do to emulation and I use multiple custom keyboards and chinese controllers.

I don't like bloat that I don't need but I prefer to have all gaming stuff already installed out of the box without having to worry about missing things out and installing everything on each fresh install.

I use full amd build with 7800x3d and 6950 XT. I mostly use it for gaming but not exclusively for gaming.

What was your experience with Bazzite in 2025? Did you have stuff break or was it stable? What were things that you were impressed with and what were you frustrated with?

I enjoy having control over my system but also intuitive and simple maintenance.

How are stability and updates?

I really enjoy Gnome with taskbar extension.

I'm mostly between Bazzite and CachyOS as of now.

I'd really appreciate your takes.:)

All aboard, I'm taking you on a trip to Yappersville.

It's been about 2 weeks since I gave the middle finger to Windows 11, and I will never go back. Not unless Bazzite gets nuked off the face of the planet.

Now I know that for some of you escape isn't possible, because of kernel level anti-cheat games like Battlefield 6 being unable to be played on Linux, but, as a single player only gamer, I figured I'd share how my journey has been going.

Provided that they don't have kernel level anti-cheat, Steam games are plug and play, no configuration needed. In fact, I learned that you can hurt the out of box experience a lot if you are like me, thinking additional launch options are needed for every game, such as using Gamescope, which is usually recommended by everyone, at least it used to be a year ago when I last tried switching to Linux (and lasted one whole day, after which I ran back to Windows 11 lmao). Nope. Adding the following launch options flag to Doom 2016

gamescope -w 2560 -h 1440 -W 2560 -H 1440 -f --force-grab-cursor --mangoapp -- %command%

resulted in worse performance than when I removed it. Due to trying to ditch Microsoft and failing so many times, I didn't even stop to consider that most tinkering that was essentially required a year ago for games to function properly is simply not needed with Bazzite. The developers don't even ship Feral Gamemode with their distro anymore, because they use a specific scheduler that does all the magic. If you told me before that Gamemode would be borderline obsolete on a Linux gaming distro, I would laugh in your face but alas, here we are. I ended up only using mangohud %command% to enable the performance overlay (like MSI Afterburner/RivaTuner overlay on Windows).

GTA IV modding is done the exact same way it would be on Windows. DXVK mod, FusionFix, Various Fixes, all of these mods install and work the same way they would on Windows 11.

Alright, so, what about non-Steam games? Lutris is included in the distro, but I ended up not using it because the Heroic Games Launcher, an app I also used on Windows in recent times, is available through the Bazaar (think Microsoft Store but actually good and useful, with amazing apps you'd actually want on your system). It's literally the same app with seamless integration with Epic, GOG and Amazon Games. GTA V (installed through Epic) worked completely fine. I don't know about GTA Online, but story mode works without any issues.

I also downloaded ProtonPlus which seems to be a very helpful tool for managing proton versions, but it's just been sitting there because of how easy it was to just download and play games.

Now this is the part that blew my mind, and I don't want this post to get nuked nor do I want to get banned, so I'll have to chose my words carefully. Amélie is my favorite French movie of all time and Audrey Justine Tautou is my favorite French actress of all time. Yours too? Awesome, you understand what I mean! Well, those games also install the same way that they do on Windows! I could not believe it but it is true. They launch through Heroic with no problem.

By this point I was completely stunned, I was like "Is this it? Have I escaped the clutches of Bill Gates? Nah... How will I replace FanControl? And how will I be able to tweak my GPU settings, adjusting the fan curve, all of that good stuff I'm used to doing in Adrenalin software...". This side of computer nerdom isn't really talked about when people bring up switching to Linux. GPU and fan control software is a must for me, as is RivaTuner Statistics Server for overlay monitoring. Enter LACT, MangoJuice and CoolerControl. Silly, if a little bit creative names aside, these apps are amazing, intuitive and with the exception of CoolerControl, don't require much, if any configuration in order to be used. CoolerControl only needed me to run one terminal command (which I found in their documentation, very useful to RTFM as we all know) and all of the sensors showed up after I did that.

My PC is configured the exact same way it was on Windows. CoolerControl boots up with the system the same way FanControl used to and naturally uses a config that is literally the same as FanControl, with the case fans ramping up as the CPU/GPU gets hot. LACT functions the same way I used to use MSI Afterburner back when I had an Nvidia GPU, open it up when you're playing a game and the profile is applied. If I was to give one criticism to LACT it would be that I wish it would behave like Adrenalin does, set the profile you want and forget about it, but from the limited testing I've done it seems like the app needs to be open for the fan curve profile to be applied. Though I'm not sure about this 100%, because I've noticed the LACT daemon running in the background when the app itself is closed, so I dunno. MangoJuice is configured the way I want it to and it's even better than RTSS, because I don't even have to launch the app in order for the overlay to be there, I just add a flag to game launch options on Steam or tick a box in Heroic options to have mangohud on, and the toogle overlay shortcut works the same way it would on RTSS.

I've seen more and more people rightfully complain about Microsoft's BS and I'm here to tell you, IT'S POSSIBLE TO ESCAPE WINDOWS. Now more than ever. I honestly cannot believe that this switch has been going as smooth as it did. A part of me is waiting for the other shoe to drop. I don't know what could possibly happen to prompt me running back to Microsoft. Before when I tried to switch, there always was a catch with the distros I tried, Ubuntu was slow to roll in newer versions of packages, Arch and Arch based distros sometimes broke an app and, being only an intermediate Linux user, not an expert, I didn't want to fix my OS all the time instead of using it, bla bla bla I could go on and on about why I faltered in the past. None of this is a problem with Bazzite because it's an immutable distro, which is just a fancy word for saying you can't break it, it simply doesn't allow you to, and if something goes wrong with the non-immutable part of the system, rolling back seems to be very easy from the light reading I did about it in their documentation.

The skeptic in me tells me that this is too good to be true. And, I don't know, maybe it is. Maybe if you have an Nvidia GPU which has historically had trouble with Linux, maybe if you decide to switch it wouldn't be smooth sailing, I really don't know. JayzTwoCents recent videos about Linux make me think I somehow, someway got lucky, maybe it's only this particular 7800 XT unit and particular 5700X3D unit that have the penguin gene in them, I don't know. What I do know is that if the day comes that Bazzite dies, I'll be one sad, sad penguin. Same goes with any of the apps I talked about, to be honest. Even though it's inevitable that forks of these start popping up should they cease development, I'm skeptical that it would be this seamless to set everything up, it always is like that. For now, I'll just try and enjoy the fact I'm free from Microsoft.

If all of this managed to convince you to give Bazzite a try and you are interested in switching, please first make sure you can run the games you play on Linux. ProtonDB is a good source for that. Also, if you have an Nvidia GPU, familiarize yourself with the current situation with Nvidia cards and Linux, I don't know of any developments ever since I bought my 7800 XT. Last time I tried Linux with an Nvidia GPU I didn't have any problems, and that was even before Bazzite existed as a distro, so your mileage may vary.

No idea if I formatted all of this well, hopefully it wasn't a hard read.

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