A question for #Linux#Wayland users. I am running Debian stable with Plasma and my computer was freezing randomly, and very often. Let's say once per day. I was about to start replacing hardware components to find the guilty party, but then I switched from Wayland to X11 and it has been a couple of weeks with not a single freeze. Is it possible that Wayland is this unstable or am I doing something wrong? My GPU is Radeon 6000 if this matters.
@darth All I can contribute is, that I'm on #EndeavourOS with #KDE, #plasma6 and #Wayland on my #RX6750XT and never got any freezes...
Nevertheless your problem could be any source, from hardware (faulty RAM, heat problem, ...) to software related.
Just installed #xwayland 24.1! Now to wait for the new version of the #Nvidia drivers. This is part of why I installed an Arch-based distro, I don't want to wait six months to two years between significant updates, I don't have that much extra time to spare in my life for reasons outside me and my body that shouldn't exist but do exist in this world and I don't want to waste it waiting around for new versions of stuff.
I'm actually really enjoying #KDE after using if on #EndeavourOS for a few weeks now. There are some hidden power user things that help, that you don't notice until you start using it more.
The #ArchLinux environment isn't so bad either.. but then again, I haven't had to fix it yet.
It helps the Arch maintainers get a better view of the install base which in turn helps them know where to spend their time and effort. Get your votes in!
If nothing else, you get a really cool look at what other Arch users are using most.
I somtimes have small, but annoying issues on my machine,
running EndeavourOS. Now, I don't use my PC often, only on the weekends.
And I'm thinking if I should just switch for another distro,
Or really take some time to look in the logs and try to google and fix this issue.
I alreayd tried once but it didn't hold for long.
It's a DNS issue.
What do you think? #EndeavourOS#Linux#Arch
Just a tuesday in #Calamares#Linux installer Matrix room: KDE neon (Ubuntu-family) reports a problem, KaOS (er .. Debian-Arch-ish) confirms, #EndeavourOS (Arch) suggests a fix, Ubuntu upstream checks.
This is the fun-collaborative part of software development!
As I ordered a #laptop after years of struggle (#Asus TUF A16 from #2023), it's likely I will need a new #Linux#distro. Which apparently brings us to the #2024 Best General Use #OS#Competition! Please meet our contestants:
#Windows 11 – the most popular OS on market. But is it really good? Unlikely.
#LinuxMint Cinnamon Edge – in my experience the best by far, intuitive, just works and never gets in your way. But can it handle a laptop that's not even a year old?
#pop_os – at this point honestly why not, I wanted to try it anyway.
If you have more suggestions for the ultimate general use #Linux#distro (or other serious OS?) please let me know, I'll add it to the list. If you have some common tasks or benchmarks I should run also please let me know.
While it's nothing special to run it on TUXEDO hardware, this is particularly exciting as it is an early version coming out of our fully automated installation service. Things look promising to have it available for all customers pretty soon! 🤗
I mentioned the only minor gripe I had using it was that while it worked out of the box - if you're on a dual/more monitor setup, the tablet surface will interact with the entirety of all of your monitors instead of just your primary monitor. This was a non-issue on my #SteamDeck setup since I only use a single monitor for that. On my main #EndeavourOS/#ArchLinux based PC though I do use a dual monitor setup with it. The good news is, if you do use a dual monitor setup or more, there's an official driver by XP-Pen you could install from the #AUR called xp-pen-tablet.
I installed it, restarted my PC, and now the XP-Pen Driver UI utility starts upon boot and through its nice GUI, I was able to easily configure the tablet to only interact with my primary monitor instead of both my monitors. For a cheap lil tablet to have THIS working THIS well on Linux, I couldn't be happier 😭 There are other configuration options I could tinker with in the app such as setting the pressure sensitivity of the pen, or what the buttons on the pen are binded to, but I just couldn't be bothered and really only needed this. Big W XP-Pen.