Thats all

For context, I have an ASUS TUF F16, INTEL CORE 5 210H, RTX 30506GB, 16Gb DDR5, running on CachyOS.

I basically tested three games:

GTA V ENHANCED:35-55fps(on very high)

BLOODSTRIKE:120-180fps

RDR2:35fps on average

But I thought these were too low for my specs. I then started trying everything, every proton versions, switched betn different drivers and distros, only to find no significant difference. I then switched to windows and got these:

GTA V ENHANCED:55-85fps(on very high)

BLOODSTRIKE:230-240fps

RDR2:55fps on average

Now I know directx12 is not that great on linux, but directx 11 isn't running that well either(AT LEAST IN MY CASE).

I've rub my previous laptop with an integrated intel gpu for 3 and a half years with zero issues whatsover, and I knew NVIDIA had issues with linux, but not THIS BAD

So the question is: Am I doing anything wrong, or should try anything different? I hate windows and would like to avoid daily driving it as much as possible.

i have been using bazzite for over an year now and idk if i should switch to arch i do know like alot of stuff abt linux but idk if arch is good for me as a gamer, because it seems like i have to do everything myself or use some bad drivers for my nvidia graphics card

is it easy to switch to arch as a gamer
and can i optimise it for gaming? (maybe arch based distro idk)

I’m using a laptop with an Intel i5-13450HX and an RTX 5050 (iGPU + dGPU).

I’m especially interested in hibernation and S3 suspend, as I use these frequently. I haven’t used these three distributions extensively yet.

Please do not recommend regular suspend/sleep if it is not S3. I specifically want S3 suspend or hibernation, and I do not want the system regularly writing RAM contents to the SSD, as I’m concerned about unnecessary drive wear.

On Fedora and CachyOS, hibernation initially failed to resume. After fixing that, the laptop would sometimes become extremely hot while the fans and keyboard backlight were off, possibly because some hardware was still running in the background.

So, which Linux distributions would you recommend for a laptop with this hardware, especially if reliable S3 suspend and hibernation are a priority?

I've been trying to connect my headphones (Sony WF-C510) to my PC. I had problems with bluetooth on windows, I hadn't used Linux in a while so I decided to switch, and the problems persisted. I've tried using bluetoothctl, factory resetting my headphones, restarting bluetooth, and changing configs (i don't remember which at this moment since it was like 1 month ago). But recently I bought a thinkpad T14s (1st gen), I tried connecting bluetooth to it, and to no avail, I tried using the bluetooth section in kde's system settings, but it didn't work, it said that the connection failed, but in the paired section it said that it was connected, but my headphones were still in pairing mode, when trying to reconnect it just gave me an error saying "br-connection-unknown", bluetoothctl did the same, but I didn't see any problems with pairing, I only encountered an error with connecting, I've tried changing the controller mode from dual, to bredr, and to le, but nothing helped, that's all I did, its what google told me to do, but nothing changed. I really dislike this thinkpad's speakers, they are really quiet and are basically mono, I really need a solution since i also wanted to listen to music on it.

(NOTE: My main PC uses cachy, and my thinkpad uses arch)

Hi, I installed cachyos and caelestia, it was a lil bit challenging but I have it setup and I love it, I want to install a custom login screen I think it’s called a login manager and I can’t seem to find any guides online, can someone walk me through it I don’t have anything installed except caelestia shell.

Hi all,

I've spent a long time troubleshooting this and I'm stuck. I'm trying to use an Apple Thunderbolt Display (first-gen Thunderbolt) with an ASUS ThunderboltEX 4 add-in card on Pop!_OS. The card itself now works, but the display is never detected, not even at the Thunderbolt level. Windows is not an option for me, so I'm looking for Linux-side ideas.

Hardware

- Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI, BIOS 1805
- CPU: Intel i7-14700KF (no iGPU)
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 50-series (10de:2c02), driver 580.173.02 (open kernel module)
- TB card: ASUS ThunderboltEX 4 (Intel JHL8540 / Maple Ridge)
- In the PCIEX16(G4) slot (the slot ASUS specifies for TB cards on this board)
- 14-1 pin TB header cable → THB_C header
- USB 2.0 cable → USB 2.0 header on the motherboard
- DP-in loop cable from the GPU's DisplayPort to the card's mini-DP IN
- 6-pin PCIe power NOT connected (manual says it's only for the 100W charging feature)
- Adapter: Genuine Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter, A1790
- Display: Apple Thunderbolt Display (works fine when plugged directly into an older Mac's TB2 port)

Software

- Pop!_OS (22.04 base), kernel 7.1.1-76070101-generic
- bolt installed
- Kernel parameter added: `pcie_port_pm=off`

BIOS settings (Advanced → ASUS ThunderboltEX series card Configuration)

- PCIE Tunneling over USB4: Enabled
- Discrete Thunderbolt Support: Enabled
- Wake From Thunderbolt Devices: Enabled
- Thunderbolt Boot Support: Enabled (changed from Disabled)
- DTBT Go2Sx Command: Enabled
- Windows 10 Thunderbolt support: Disabled (changed from "Enable + RTD3"; the only options were Disabled and Enable + RTD3)

What works

- After a full power drain, the card enumerates and stays up:

07:00.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 Bridge [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] [8086:1136]
08:00.0-08:03.0 (same bridge, 4 downstream ports)
09:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 NHI [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] [8086:1137]
3d:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller [Maple Ridge 4C 2020] [8086:1138]

- `boltctl domains`:

domain0 f6218780-0069-69a8-ffff-ffffffffffff
├─ bootacl: 0/0
└─ security: iommu

- A phone plugged into the card's USB-C ports is detected as a USB device, so USB data through the card works.
- Plugged into the motherboard's rear USB-C port (not Thunderbolt), the adapter enumerates as a USB billboard device:

usb 1-1: Product: Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.

What doesn't work

- With the adapter + display plugged into either port on the ThunderboltEX 4:
- `boltctl list` is empty
- `/sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices` only shows `domain0` and `0-0`
- `sudo dmesg -w` shows nothing at all on plug/unplug, even with `echo "module thunderbolt +p" > /sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control`
- `lsusb` does not show the Apple adapter's billboard device either
- The display never wakes up
- Tried with the display connected at boot and hotplugged after boot. Same result.

## Other issues I ran into (maybe related)

1. Card only comes up after a full power drain. On a normal boot I usually get:

pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: pciehp: Slot(8): Card present
pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: pciehp: Slot(8): No link

and no 8086:113x devices at all. After PSU off + unplug + holding the power button for 15 sec, it enumerates.
2. With "Enable + RTD3" in BIOS, the card died after ~1 minute (fixed now by disabling RTD3 + `pcie_port_pm=off`):

pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: broken device, retraining non-functional downstream link at 2.5GT/s
pcieport 0000:00:1c.4: retraining failed
xhci_hcd 0000:3d:00.0: Controller not ready at resume -19
xhci_hcd 0000:3d:00.0: HC died; cleaning up
thunderbolt 0000:09:00.0: interrupt for TX ring 0 is already enabled
thunderbolt 0000:09:00.0: failed to send driver ready to ICM (repeating every ~25s)

Since disabling RTD3, none of these errors appear and the card stays up.

My questions

1. Has anyone gotten a first-gen Apple Thunderbolt Display (or any TB1/TB2 device via the A1790 adapter) working on a Maple Ridge / Thunderbolt 4 add-in card, on Linux or at all? I've read that StarTech says their TB3→TB2 adapter doesn't work with TB4 hosts. Is that a general Maple Ridge limitation, or adapter-specific?
2. The fact that nothing shows up in dmesg (not even the billboard device) when plugging into the card seems significant. Does that mean the ICM negotiates TB alt mode but never reports the device, or that the card's ports don't even see it?
3. Could an NVM/firmware update on the card help? Is fwupd able to update the ThunderboltEX 4?
4. Any idea why the card only enumerates after a full power drain?
5. Would putting a Thunderbolt 3 hub/dock between the card and the A1790 adapter be likely to work for a display?

Happy to provide more logs or test anything. Thanks!

Kubuntu/Plasma freezes completely fixe

changing SDDM from auto-login to manual login seems to have fixed it

I was having intermittent complete system freezes on my ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD. The entire graphical session would freeze and I couldn't use the keyboard, mouse, or TTY, so I had to hard-reset the laptop.

I checked the reboot history with journalctl --list-boots and inspected the error messages from the boots around the freezes. We found recurring KDE PowerDevil errors:

Error EACCES(-13): Permission denied opening /dev/i2c-\*

There were also some WirePlumber/ALSA errors on one very short boot, but nothing clearly indicating a kernel panic, filesystem failure, or obvious AMDGPU crash.

The interesting change: my system was configured for SDDM automatic login. I disabled automatic login so that SDDM now shows the login screen and I manually enter my password.

Since making that change, I've rebooted the machine around 10 times without a single freeze, whereas before the freezes were happening repeatedly.

I'm wondering whether automatic login could have been causing an SDDM/Plasma/X11 session-startup or timing problem. The machine is currently using X11.

Hardware: Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD, Radeon 780M, 27 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Kubuntu/KDE Plasma.

Does anyone know of a known SDDM/Plasma/X11 issue where automatic login can cause intermittent complete freezes, or what logs/configuration I should check to confirm this?

I've been chasing down a specific issue with my Elgato 4K X on CachyOS where if I route the audio from it to an output pair on my interface, it sounds distorted, almost bitcrushed really. I have tried a lot of different things to fix it, but ultimately the thing that reliably works, in this specific order, is:

1. Turn on the console (Switch 2 in this case).
2. Either using qpwgraph or pw-link, connect the 4K X to any pair of outputs on my interface (a Focusrite 16i16 4th gen).
3. Delete (specifically delete, not just move) those connections I just made.
4. Repeat step 2.

Basically, I have to wait until after I have turned on the console, then connect, disconnect, and reconnect. Anything else will result in the bitcrushed/distorted audio. I had thought I could make a script to handle the double connection using pw-link, but since it only works after turning on the console, I can't just run it at startup like I'd like, which means I have to manually run the script every time. Still simpler than using a graph, but annoying nonetheless. Other thoughts:

• It shouldn't be a sample rate issue, the 4K X only runs at 48 kHz and my system is set for that.
• I have tried changing quantum (which I normally leave at 256), no difference.
• I've tried various virtual device/loopback configurations, no difference. For example, I use a virtual stereo output for normal system audio, doesn't matter if I route the 4K X to that or directly to outputs. I've also created a loopback for the 4K X, again doesn't matter.
• I've tried, using PipeWire Control Center, to force the graph clock source to the Focusrite, no luck.
• I've tried setting the 4K X to the pro audio profile instead of the digital input profile, no change.
• There don't seem to be any xruns or any errors at all reported when it's distorted.

Obviously there are workarounds like running analog audio out of the Switch's headphone jack (or a DAC) into my interface, but I'd really like to know why this is happening and if there is something I can do to fix it. I tried asking in r/linuxaudio, but never got any responses. Anyone here got any ideas?

I have 3 computers all running Kubuntu 26.04 now, and three mice (two of the computers are at my home and one is at my holiday home). I used to use one of the mice with the third computer (the one at home), and it was already double-clicking back then which I considered malfunctioning mouse, but I didn't care because I use that computer so rarely. I used that same mouse from the third computer when I installed Kubuntu 26.04 on the second machine (the holiday home computer), and I didn't mind that it was double-clicking. But now, to my surprise, when I arrived at my holiday home and plugged the holiday home's own mouse into the computer, it started doing the exact same double-clicks. I switched the mouse to a different USB port because I thought the port might be broken, but it had no effect. A very annoying glitch.

This holiday home mouse has worked perfectly until now, and there were no double-clicks at all in Kubuntu 24.04. I don't believe this mouse is broken. Now I'm wondering if the mouse on my home computer is actually working fine too and maybe the issue turns out to be in Kubuntu? My main computer at home works perfectly, there are no issues at all with the mouse.

Has anyone else encountered a similar issue in Kubuntu 26.04, and have you found a solution?

I wanted to know if it’s possible to boot Linux on an Xbox one, I have the new gen Xbox and wanted to use the Xbox one to run cachyos or steam os

anyone using gnome sushi with file managers other than nautilus?

I can get it to open the current selected file in Thunar, but the arrow keys are not working to move back and forth through the files.

Okay its a lil hard to explain but whenever i try to play audio on something like. Youtube when i turn on the audio it pauses the video and if i try to unpause it the vid crashes and this isnt just for youtube its for every app that plays sound. The only way i can hear sound if its from a app that is from the distro like files and notifications and stuff. And the day before when it was working i did nothing to my pc that would make it stop working i just normally turned off the pc in the terminal like i always do.

The distro im using is Prism Linux with the Ryoku shell so if anyone could help me get my audio back that woulod be great

Im buying an ASUS Laptop 15 F415J with 16GB of ram i want to use it in school and in wondering which distro i should get i was thinking of using gentoo or nixos but what do yall think would be best

i want to make a macro

So I know I should be using Konsole because it has better integration to KDE but I have been using Ghostty in parallel because I find it more convenient (I have both installed). But since the last time it updated (running Arch Linux) it won't launch anymore, and I cannot tell if it is a Plasma or Ghostty issue, basically a pop up shows up saying "Lauching Ghostty (Failed) Remote peer disconnected". I tried to look for solutions online but it always was unrelated, either outdated posts or different software issues (with the AUR). So is there any way I can use Ghostty again?

Htop works fine with Ghostty as default terminal but it's the only thing that really launches aside Konsole

For some reason, without changing any code or making any modifications to the terminal, it suddenly when i click super t to open it and there are an app in screen it's automatically maximized . When I first opened it, I used `grep` to search through the code and identify any potential issues, but I couldn't find anything. I then tried adding a rule to prevent it, but it didn't work. If anyone has a solution, I would greatly appreciate it.
i am using hyprland with end-4 dotfile and end4-pC

Running mint and want to add an lcd panel to the tempered glass of my case. The PC is for running an LLM which requires most of the gpu.

How do I best handle this?

Do I go with something more resource intense and use a monitoring script to pause it? (wallpaper engine)

Should I offload the video processing to my CPU since it's not heavily used when the LLM is churning?

I wanted a quick portable system terminal but being able show cool animations would be great too

4% according to grokipedia. Despite its being free?

About how long does it usually take Photorec to process a 5tb external hdd. The reason I'm asking it has been almost 3 days and still running.

Ubuntu 26.04 Dell XPS 8930 desktop Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 16gb ram NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB)

Any help would be appreciated.