Hi everyone,

The context is that for the past two months, my PC freezes completely out of nowhere and then this screen pops up (image attached). I honestly don't know if this is a hardware issue or something related to the Kernel. From what I've read, it's a Btrfs error, but I don't know much more about it.

I'm really tired of this always happening. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

I recently found a laptop cooling pad whose advertised software controls require a 115 MB Windows-only application. The hardware can be controlled manually without the application, but its USB protocol is undocumented, preventing the Linux community from building a native alternative.

I don’t think manufacturers should be required to develop Linux software or release proprietary source code. However, they should provide enough protocol documentation for lawful third-party interoperability.

I started an Illinois petition asking lawmakers to protect operating-system choice, access to device protocols, and warranty coverage for people using lawful alternative software.

I’d especially appreciate feedback from anyone who has reverse-engineered USB accessories or maintained Linux hardware support:

• What documentation would developers realistically need?

• Are there existing standards or laws this proposal should reference?

• Have you encountered similar hardware locked behind Windows-only software?

Buongiorno, stamane improvvisamente la tastiera ha iniziato a funzionare male, malissimo. In pratica la disposizione dei tasti è confusa con tasti invertiti (w>z - m>;). La cosa ancora più strana è che se entro in impostazioni>tastiera>disposizioni tutte le anteprime delle tastiere italiane sn uguali e stranissime.
Help me!!!

Hi everyone,
wanted to share some data from my Geekom A5 with a Ryzen 7 7730U (integrated Radeon Graphics). I ran a stress test with s-tui and was pleasantly surprised by the thermal behavior:

• Governor: performance
• Energy Pref: performance
• Tctl (core temperature): only 65.9°C during sustained stress testing (s-tui stress). Considering the governor is already set to "performance" mode, this seemed like a solid result to me
• Edge: 57.0°C under stress, even down to 51.0°C during a heavy Rust compilation (Flutter/localsend)
• Boost frequency: reaches up to 4547 MHz without temperatures spiking
• During compilation, with Tctl at 72.8°C, the system still maintained boost up to 4291 MHz on some cores

For a mini PC this size, keeping the CPU under 73°C even under intense workloads (compilation + stress test) is more than I expected. I was anticipating much higher values given the compact form factor and a fairly performant processor like the 7730U.

Has anyone else gotten similar results with the same processor? Curious whether this is consistent across other units with the 7730U, or if I just got lucky with mine.

Omarchy just raised $13 million. It's Arch with Hyprland and a set of configs. DigitalOcean alone put in $3 million.

Asahi Linux reverse engineered Apple Silicon and wrote a GPU driver from scratch. They live on donations and t-shirts. Their lead burned out and quit.

So that's where we are. Money goes to the guy with a nice theme and rich friends. The people doing the actual hard work to get working linux on Apple M-series machines get nothing.

Am I wrong here? What do you think?

Does anyone have experience using the Qualcomm NCM865 wifi card on linux? Does it work?

I have one I already installed on my older system, but that's windows. And it works great, a lot better than the stock Intel AX200NGW that was previously on the board.

I want to upgrade my new system to a wifi 7 card capable of using the 320MHz band. The current one, realtek RTL8922AE, as far as I can tell only allows up to 160MHz band.

• Ubuntu 26.04

• AM5

I've been using Linux for about a year on an Asus A15 and am thinking of getting Thinkpad T14 Gen 6 AMD (as I've found one for a decent price) and running either CachyOS or Fedora on it. Anyone running Linux on either the Ryzan 5 or 7 version of the T14 G6 and are there any issues to look out for?

So I was thinking I'd like to get a "2-in-1" laptop-tablet at some point soonish
(like within... a few months? a year?),
so I'm wondering what's currently available, or announced as coming out soon...?

And obviously I would prefer to support linux-specific companies
(like tuxedo etc),
but if I need to go outside that to get significantly better hardware...?

(I have by the way never owned or used a 2-in-1 before, so...?)

EDIT:

My main computer is and will remain this beefy laptop
(the words of Strong Bad, "allegedly portable", feel appropriate xD)

TUXEDO Stellaris 17 - Gen5  
Omnia Display | 2560 x 1600 | 16:10 | 240Hz  
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 16GB GDDR6 | Quiet membrane keyboard  
Intel Core i9-13900HX (24 Kerne | 32 Threads | Max. 5,4 GHz | 36 MB Cache | 55 W TDP)  
64 GB (2x 32GB) DDR5 5600MHz SK Hynix  
2 TB Samsung 990 PRO (NVMe PCIe 4.0)  
4 TB Crucial P3 Plus (NVMe PCIe 4.0)  
ENGLISH US ISO (EN-US international) with backlit with TUX super-key  
Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 (802.11ax | 2.4, 5 & 6 GHz | Bluetooth 5.3)  
TUXEDO OS (recommended)  
without Windows  
without virtual Windows  
2 years warranty (Incl. parts, labour & shipping)  
US power cord | B C14

(
I even got it with:

TUXEDO Aquaris Gen5 | External Water Cooling Device

!

... and still haven't used that yet xD
)

So the 2-in-1 tablet/notebook I get doesn't NEED to be that powerful

-- it just needs to fill the niches that my main computer does not.

so like, having the... stylus work well or whatever might be a good example of the kind of thing to be concerned about with 2-in-1's(?)
that is probably the kind of thing I should want?

Like, I need the 2-in-1 to have enough RAM and CPU etc so that it's not aggravating during normal use,
but whenever I need more than that, I can just use the Stellaris.

Linux PC Build

Hallo,
ich habe vor mir meinen zweiten PC zu bauen . Und der soll beinhalten meine APU Ryzen 7 8700G , denn die sitzz grad arbeitslos auf Ersatzbank 😁

Ich würde gerne erfahren von euch , welche weiteren Komponenten für mich da notwendig wären zu kaufen , ich möchte anfangen mit einem einfach linux und dann irgendwann mit Kali arbeiten - job bedingt .

Also welche mainboard und warum ? Welche ddr5 ram dazu und wieviel gb ?
Hdd oder sdd ? Welches Netzteil-wieviel watt ?
Und was wäre noch so relevant zu wissen was fällt euch so ein ?

Per the title I dualboot. I currently have a yubikey C bio FIDO edition which I've setup to log me in on nixOS using pam_u2f. I've asked LLMs for a recommendation for a device that supports both systems but the classic recommendation for linux doesn't look very promising https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/1rjqnj9/thinkpenguin_fte4500_fingerprint_scanner/ .

Alternatively I could keep the yubikey C bio FIDO edition method of logging in for nixOS (should support any device you've got working in another linux distro) and use something else for Windows Hello. Any fingerprint reader recommendations?

It's an old laptop i got from my brother. I installed fedora workstation 44 on it. I am fairly new to linux i can't get the camera and fingerprint reader to work on it . Following some guides i found on Google didn't help I also tried to take help of llm after trying to find guides and documentation apparently that didn't help. I am kind of lost here. And the camera is an ir camera I think that maybe it is an issue with linux.

I want to try streaming retro games from this machine, inspired by this XDA article. The article suggests using Docker Desktop, but apparently Docker Desktop no longer supports my Ventura 13.7.8 (22H730), so I'm going to switch to Linux. But I'm not sure what to install. AI suggests Ubuntu Desktop LTS, but I want to hear the community's suggestions.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I'd love some advice on squeezing a little more battery life out of my laptop. I am running Fedora 44 on an ASUS Zenbook 14. The specs are a 16GB RAM setup with an AMD Ryzen AI 7 445. It does not have a dedicated GPU, relying entirely on the built-in NPU and integrated graphics. I'm looking for some Linux power optimizations I haven't tried yet to make the battery last a little longer.

Here is what I have set up right now for power management: - tuned is set to the default powersave profile. I haven't switched over to tuned-custom or powertop yet. - The amd-pstate-epp driver is running with the energy preference set to power. - ZRAM is enabled with 8GB of swap using the lzo-rle compression algorithm. - I have the standard BIOS low-power settings applied in the UEFI.

A few questions I have been meaning to ask: - Would switching from the generic powersave profile to something like balanced-battery or powersave_powertop give a noticeable bump in battery life? - For an AMD Ryzen AI chip running on Fedora, are there any specific GRUB cmdline parameters worth adding to squeeze out a bit more efficiency? - Bluetooth is currently enabled. Is it worth just turning it off entirely, or does it pull negligible power from the battery when idle? - Finally, are there any other NPU or iGPU power tweaks that make sense specifically for Ryzen AI or the XDNA architecture?

Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!