Hey there all. New to Linux. Trying to get away from Windows with all the CoPilot vulnerability issues taking place. I’m looking at Bazite, since I love SteamOS so much. Anyone have any experience with this distro? I’ve tried it before and couldn’t find a fan control application that would work to slow down the speed of my fans. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Welcome to the community @Pandamonium83, thanks for joining us! 
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This depends on the make/model of your GPU and/or your motherboard.
For instamce, I have a AMD RX570 and the fans are controlled by the card.
(I wrote my own fancontroller for that)
Someone else on this forum has a Thinkpad where the fans are controlled by the BIOS, a ready made driver for that board exists.
I don’t know about nVidia because I dumped nVidia ages ago.
Show some info about your hardware (especially GPU) , maybe someone will chime in with some practical ideas.
You can use the command inxi -Fz
if the system responds with command not found, install it first and then try again.
You can post the output here (copy paste), select the whole texblock and use the </> symbol in the edit window to make it a bit easier readable.
I guess there might be some helpful responses if you do that.
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Welcome to the community, @Pandamonium83
Also have a look at:
Also another nice gaming distro, like Bazzite is:
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Hi @Pandamonium83 and welcome to our community!
While I do not have specific experience with Bazzite, I have had good luck with CoolerControl on multiple distributions and hardware configurations.
You can check out their Hardware Support section to see if what you have may be supported, and you can check out their Install Docs where they have a ujust command for installing this application.
As far as I understand it, CoolerControl pairs with lm-sensors, so if lm-sensors properly detects your hardware, then CoolerControl gives you a great interface and good ability to configure your fan to work the way you need them to.
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Getting away from Windows is a laudable exercise; the “average” individual doesn’t even explore other alternatives. I don’t have any experience with the stuff you mentioned, so I defer to others in that regard; hope we get some discussions here that help you out; keep in the conversation so it can be most helpful to you, okay?
Warm greetings to you @Pandamonium83
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| OS Name | Microsoft Windows 11 Pro |
|---|---|
| Version | 10.0.26200 Build 26200 |
| Other OS Description | Not Available |
| OS Manufacturer | Microsoft Corporation |
| System Name | SLAVEONE |
| System Manufacturer | ASUS |
| System Model | System Product Name |
| System Type | x64-based PC |
| System SKU | SKU |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 12-Core Processor, 3793 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s) |
| BIOS Version/Date | American Megatrends Inc. 1004, 8/13/2020 |
| SMBIOS Version | 3.2 |
| Embedded Controller Version | 255.255 |
| BIOS Mode | UEFI |
| BaseBoard Manufacturer | ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. |
| BaseBoard Product | ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI) |
| BaseBoard Version | Rev X.0x |
| Platform Role | Desktop |
| Secure Boot State | Off |
| PCR7 Configuration | Elevation Required to View |
| Windows Directory | C:\WINDOWS |
| System Directory | C:\WINDOWS\system32 |
| Boot Device | \Device\HarddiskVolume7 |
| Locale | United States |
| Hardware Abstraction Layer | Version = 10.0.26100.1 |
| User Name | SLAVEONE\Ewan |
| Time Zone | Eastern Daylight Time |
| Installed Physical Memory (RAM) | 32.0 GB |
| Total Physical Memory | 31.9 GB |
| Available Physical Memory | 17.4 GB |
| Total Virtual Memory | 43.9 GB |
| Available Virtual Memory | 22.3 GB |
| Page File Space | 12.0 GB |
| Page File | C:\pagefile.sys |
| Kernel DMA Protection | Off |
| Virtualization-based security | Not enabled |
| App Control for Business policy | Enforced |
| App Control for Business user mode policy | Off |
| Automatic Device Encryption Support | Elevation Required to View |
| Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions | Yes |
| Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware | No |
| Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection | Yes |
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I’m also using a Nvidia GeForce 5060ti
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@Pandamonium83 First I just want to say, great name for your machine! 
I have a motherboard from the same manufacturer and am using an Nvidia RTX 3060. I never messed with the fans when I was running Bazzite but I am using a similar atomic system now. I would just add a confirmation to the above suggestions to check out the uefi/bios, that is where I set my fan speeds, calibrate them and even change the RGB lights.
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