AltruisticAthiest

joined 2 weeks ago

I'll give this a try, thanks!

I'll look into the HDMI route, but as far as I'm aware it won't support the ultrawide at 240Hz so I either give up what I paid for hardware capability or switch back to windows, unfortunately.

Eh I think it comes down to convenience. My ADHD ass isn't able to be at my computer 5 minutes early to deal with session switching just to wake my own computer from sleep so while Windows has tons of other issues and I hate Microslop with a burning passion, I'm still ultimately tied to it since I realistically simply can't use Linux and "survive". If the maintainers can focus fixing these usability issues rather than bitching about Rust adoption in the kernel, we could be having a different conversation.

[–] AltruisticAthiest@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is exactly what I've been doing but it's not ideal. I did finally give up and switch to Windows after it made me late for a meeting this morning. So close but Linux still doesn't seem viable as a real daily-driver.

Yeah that's what I had gone with the problem is I also have a Kanali TryX CPU cooler and it will burn-in since the vendor doesn't make a Linux version of their controller software. I essentially have to sleep the system or run a windows VM all the time to be able to sleep that when I'm not around. Only other option I can think of is to just shut all that stuff off but then what's the point?

 

I've been a linux server admin for almost 20 years but I've never been able to fully switch from Windows for my daily driver. With all the Windows 11 bullshit I want desperately to switch but I feel like I can't win with a desktop distro. I've had nothing but issues related to hardware/drivers with each distro I've tried.

Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43 has given me the most luck but it's left me with one glaring issue which has me writing this post from Windows - how the fuck do I configure the OS to wake the monitors properly after going to sleep? If my monitors go black either from display sleep, OS sleep, or OS hibernation, the system can wake just fine but the displays show no detected input. I've tried both the open and proprietary nvidia drivers with no luck. I've also configured s2idle as the only sleep configuration and while it sometimes allows the monitors to wake without issue, it doesn't always work.

Am I just missing something? Is there a different distro I should try? I've now been through Manjaro, Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop_os, Arch, and Kali with nothing fully working for my hardware.

Really feeling like I should just give up and give it another few years and try again - any advise otherwise? I'd really really like to abandon microslop.

MSI MS-7E16 (X670E Gaming Plus Wifi)
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super
64 GB DDR5
Latest Bios and firmware for everything; all software/os features up-to-date