Alaknar

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.

I ended up switching to a different distro - Tuxedo OS didn't really like me putting in an AMD graphics card.

I prefer the "Make Elon Go Away" version. :)

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!