You could hack something together with KDE widgets (plasmoids I think?), creating an array of app launchers on your desktop.

It’d be a completly manual way of doing it though, so up to you if you think it’s worth it.

I’ve been using Fedora KDE on a 5625U on my new laptop, gives me about 5 hours.

I use this program auto-cpufreq with the “Powersave” setting and that gives me about 7 hours with barely noticeable performance degredation.

• Proton & Lutris
• Libreoffice & Nextcloud
• G.I.M.P, Inkscape, Krita
• It’s cooler, more secure, more private, more trusting etc.
• More compatible than Windows 11 that’s for sure

Everyone should use Linux, it’s just whether or not they can use Linux.

Look for a large spike, that’d be the deck.

No problem, I dislike it myself when I have an issue and there are no posts mentioning something similar or the OP deleted their post.

I also find it annoying when the solution is buried somewhere in the comments, so I make them as visible as possible.

Thank you! I can confirm uninstalling amdvlk fixes the issue.

Yes I tried Proton-8.0.3 and Proton GE 8.16 to no avail. Got the same issue.

Nobara is pretty good for a “just works” gaming-centric distro. The issue that you’re coming across is plain and simple, PopOS is severly outdated. Most of System76’s dev team are likely working on COSMIC.

If you want the absolute most, contiuously up-to-date packages, then I can’t recommend anything other than Arch. I’ve used it as my daily driver for a little over 2 years now and I’ve always come crawling back if I try something else. Gaming on it isn’t a hassle, most of the time it just works, not to be a stereotypical Arch user but do read the Wiki. Arch was also my first ever distro, a friend got me into it.

If Arch is a bit dawnting for you then something Arch-based is just as good, from experience I recommend EndeavourOS. Do not use Manjaro.

A scoldingly hot take.

I’ve recently switched from Gnome to KDE in preperation for Plasma 6. I’m definitely noticing some rough edges even on 5.27, so I’m highly looking forward to 6.00

Just the 1 premium linux distro please…

x86 backwards compatibility

I think the current status-quo of devices like laptops is unsustainable. For example just because the CPU is a bit slow doesn’t mean the RAM, GPU (If Applicable), PSU, Motherboard, I/O Ports, Display, Speakers, Camera, Keyboard, Trackpad etc should go too. The way it’s currently done is so incredibly wasteful and peak capitalist (Hi Apple 🫠).

So I’m 100% on board with Framework’s goal and, if it is financially feasible, you should go with them. Software is infinite, hardware is not. But if Framework’s is a bit too steep then I’d go with someone like System76 just because I don’t want to fuel the fire of Big Tech.

Inputs to the driver probably.

Well Freesync is probably a bit more complicated to implement than FSR 3 considering the scope, Freesync works in-games and in the desktop so I imagine the display server and compositor need to support it. To me FSR 3 seems nothing more than a driver update and a new version of wine / proton.

Yeah good point, I forgot about the Steamdeck. So AMD themselves will probably make an effort to get it working then.

I like GRUB, it’s what I’ve always used and it’s never failed me. I don’t like messing around with bootloader stuff for reasons like this. If I was only using 1 OS then yeah I’d probably use efibootmgr or something and just have it jump straight in.

It is good fun if you’re really into Linux, I practically jumped out my seat when I crossed my fingers, rebooted and GRUB came up with Gentoo listed.

I’m putting it on my hardware as we speak, we’ll see :D