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SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux has some nice growth thanks to great handheld PC support
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Works great on my main PC. I have some legacy hardware, a 12 year old PC I shoved a gtx970 into, and I cannot seem to get Bazzite running on it. It would run Win10 and most modern titles well enough to let the kiddo play on it, so this is disappointing. Maybe I need a different distro for something so old?
I believe Bazzite uses the open kernel driver, which requires a 1600 series card or newer. For a gtx970, you'll need to use the proprietary driver. Most distros support it
Correct, but that is why there are two different Nvidia images, bazzite-nvidia and bazzite-nvidia-open. OP just needs to use bazzite-nvidia for the older/legacy cards.
I thought I did, they had a drop down menu to select based on my card. Maybe I screwed that up, will double check, thanks
You probably did but, there are two Nvidia entries. I'm assuming you downloaded the one under Modern GPUs because it makes sense for your main PC, but a GTX 970 would need the entry that is under Older/Legacy GPUs.