You can’t really disable rgb but you can set brightness with openrgb to 0.

I guess that’s good enough.

Do you speak from experience with 9070, or just in general as a “thing that OpenRGB does”?

I’ll add: “be supportive and helpful if you can, and just shut up if you can’t”.

Fediverse is sometimes suffering from the same kind of people that Linux has - “oh you have a problem? Well, here’s the GitHub repo and a project Wiki, figure it out”.

All your arguments are logically sound and completely miss the main point.

The issue with Linux is not that “it’s getting there” in terms of user friendliness. It’s that it’s not there YET.

On top of that you have the community - just the other day I was searching to solve an issue, found a very similar thread, and the only reply the guy got was “here’s a link to the ArchWiki, welcome to the Linux world, you need to figure this out yourself”.

My 80 year old mother is not figuring out shit, she’s terrified when she has to copy a photo from a USB stick to here Photos folder.

Saying “Linux is fine for the masses today” is just showing how detached many Linux users are from reality.

Obviously Linux is the correct choice

Spoken like a true fundamentalist, completely disconnected from reality! The top of the Linux breed!

Linux is not “obviously” the “correct” choice, mate. It CAN be. In CERTAIN scenarios. It’s awesome if people do it, but you need to be real here.

Sooo, I’m in the same boat. Only, I sold my GPU expecting to get an upgrade and then didn’t for a long while - which is when I decided to make the switch to Linux, just to see how things go.

Now I added the GPU and - with issues - managed to get gaming going. It’s fine, I think. Played Hogwarts Legacy yesterday for a couple of hours. Got a 7800x3d and RX 9070 XT, with everything on Ultra (including Ray Tracing) and upscaling disabled, my GPU would be sitting between 80 and 100% utilisation, but FPS was very comfortable (don’t have a counter so don’t know exactly how many, but it was smooth).

HOWEVER, after a couple of hours my main monitor turned off and the other one turned… green. I think the graphics driver crashed? Not sure, honestly. Anyway, after a reboot everything was fine. Overall, I had a nice four hour-long session yesterday.

I guess what I’m saying is - give it a go! KDE is beautiful (do recommend Garuda Linux just for the design choices, but they also have A TONNE of “I’m a noob, help” features pre-configured), gaming is fine, you might enjoy it. And if you don’t, just switch back to Windows.

Well, to be fair, there was A LOT of weird stuff happening. Steam wouldn’t open at all (unless called from the terminal), or would open with just a black screen (GPU acceleration issue). At some point, I’m pretty sure, I had three instances of Steam installed. It was chaos.

Yeah. I think he either went insane, or just smelled an easy con. Sad thing, really.

Killing nuclear energy in Germany was the greatest success of FSB up to the point of planting an asset right in the middle of the Oval Office.

I have been using Steam and Heroic as flatpaks for a long time, and never had any issues.

I have two NVMe drives - 1TB and 2TB. I keep the OS and “regular apps” on the first one, games go on the second one. Moving the libraries was DIFFICULT on Flatpak. Had to use external software (Flatsomething, can’t remember right now) to give permissions and even then, for some reason, sometimes installation would just fail with a “drive error”. Oh, and I had to search online to provide the appropriate Steam path for Heroic because, by default, it doesn’t see Flatpak Steam.

I’m pretty happy with the state of the OS and GUI as it is right now. Just moved a couple of things around, basically.

I do have a problem with Flathub, though - in theory, it’s great. But I’m going to be playing games on this PC and Flathub causes MASSIVE problems for Steam and Heroic Launcher, their libraries and Proton compatibility. Love the idea, don’t like the execution.

Garuda (or maybe it’s an Arch thing?) does a phenomenal thing with AppImage files - when I launched the first one it asked me if I want to add shortcuts to Application Laucher and tuck the AppImage away in a safe spot, so that it doesn’t sit in Downloads. LOVE that feature.

He used to be.

Since I REALLY wanted to just not be bothered with the issue of drivers (especially AMD drivers) I went for one of the “gaming” distros - Garuda Linux.

And I have to say, I’m very positively surprised. Judging by the images on their website, I was afraid it’ll be one of those, you know, “pro gamer, full RBG rainbow” bullshit designs, but no - it’s actually very pretty live, looks much better than on their website.

Runs on Arch (Zen?) and has a bunch of things that I like - for example an app called “Garuda Rani” which is basically: “you’re a noob, here, press these buttons to make things work”. It even includes installation shortcuts to some popular applications (Heroic Launcher, Steam, for gamers, but also Wine and Proton, AnyDesk, Discord, VLC, some emulators, a bunch of Linux games (they have SuperTux here!), etc.)

Overall, other than a slight issue with my favourite browser* and repositories**, everything so far seems to be smooth sailing.

* Created a profile, had it running, changed the hostname and it, apparently, screwed the browser over as it was looking for the profile on the old hostname. Weird stuff. Nuked the profile, recreated it, all is well.

** One of those “press these buttons to make things work” includes merging the mirrorlist. Since I knew nothing about it, I just merged one file to the other, didn’t think a second about it, and then when I tried installing Steam, I got an error about a “missing repository for extras”. Managed to fix it after finally reading what the # signs mean in the mirrorlist file (everything was commented out - every single server…).

I ended up switching to a different distro and now everything seems to be working fine. Tuxedo OS really didn’t like my new graphics card.

I ended up switching to a different distro and now everything seems to be working fine. Tuxedo OS really didn’t like my new graphics card.

Haven’t had the time yet, but it’s on my to-do list. Just not sure if they will support this as I’m running it on my own hardware, not their laptop.

6.11.0-109019-tuxedo.

Not the latest, right? I guess I’ll wait for an update.

Does the system also freeze on lock screen without the sleep? superkey(winkey)+L

No, lock screen works fine.

Cheers for the links, I’ll look into that!

That’s interesting! Might be KDE bug then.

Could you try going to System Settings → Screen Locking and de-select “Lock after waking from sleep”? I wonder if you’ll get the same result as I’m getting.

Before I updated the BIOS to the latest version, once I woke it up, I’d see the desktop exactly frozen as it was the moment I pressed the “Sleep” button.

Now, after the update, that freeze happens BEFORE the PC goes to sleep - the monitors stay on.

So, I did a BIOS update, as advised here, and got some interesting results!

The freeze still happens - but it now freezes BEFORE the PC shuts down.

As in: I click the Sleep button, all devices get disconnected (audio, network, BT, input - all of it goes), the OS freezes, but the screens stay on. I cannot switch to a different VT at this point as everything is disconnected.

Oh, yeah, that’s true! Didn’t know that’s a thing here, good to know!