I'm not a complete novice with Linux, but I'm facing challenges getting both Bazzite and Cachyos to run on my nearly new Omen 17 laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 AI 350 and 5060. I've set it up with dual drives to keep my Windows installation separate. I've successfully installed both distributions along with Ubuntu and Mint on other machines without dedicated graphics. However, with Bazzite, I reached the splash screen but couldn't get into the live environment. It did load in safe graphics mode, but after installing, the kernel was messed up. Cachyos loaded with the right resolution, but everything appeared too small to read. After a restart, I couldn't boot back into Cachyos; instead, I was stuck with the broken Bazzite installation and had to force boot into the BIOS to access Windows. Am I missing something, or are these issues hardware-related?
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You're definitely not dumb! It sounds like you're dealing with some graphics driver problems. The tiny text suggests it's not using the correct resolution or driver. For your Ryzen 7 setup with integrated graphics, you might need to add kernel parameters like 'nomodeset' or 'amdgpu.si_support=1' during boot to fix this. Once you get past that hurdle, you can install the proper drivers for better performance.
I'll give that a shot next time I boot it up. I thought that might be the issue, but I wasn't completely sure.