Running arch as well and have it installed. Works just fine with linux-g14 kernel and headers. I use the zen kernel mostly so i don’t have the armory settings most of the time because I use zen but everything else works.

Just did a pacman -Q | grep linux and my linux-g14 is on 6.15.2 and zen is on 6.15.3.

Did you add the keys?

https://asus-linux.org/

Might be worth checking out, not positive it supports your laptop but if it does it might give you control over some bells and whistles like fan curves and lighting.

steamtinkerlaunch has a mo2 and a vortex installer. I suggest the mo2. Playing skyrim with 400 mods and ENB as well as FO4 with 500 mods with ENB NAC. Both running extremely well on my nv3080. Well still have the FO4 NG stutter but overall playable.

Might have a hard time modding Starfield though. Last I checked STL installs an outdated mo2 version.

I have started modding cp2077 but haven’t given it much time.

There is also rockerbacon’s version. I think you can use lutris to install it. I think this is the newest version of MO2 so should work with Starfield. I recently tried it but the installer was complaining about a gtk-theme I have installed. I use KDE and whatever gtk theme I have is not compatible. Was in the middle of rewriting it in kdialog but i hit a snag and forgot about it. My bash is rubbish!

The biggest differences are STL is a whole program designed around proton/wine and offers a ton of tweaks that are as easy as clicking a button or dropdown for the most part. STL offers a single instance MO2 install using symbolic linking to all your game prefixes. While rockerbacon’s is meant to be installed for each game. Both have their benefits and drawbacks.

Both devs are pretty fucking cool!

STL’s interface is a bit odd at times but is well documented. Dont ever scroll over the right side of the Game Menu GUI as you can change settings you don’t mean to. That said it works pretty damn well.

The only thing I miss about X11 is xscreensaver. I hope the dev makes a port for wayland one day. I dont care if it ever has screen locking, i just want bouncing cows.

While I agree that everyone should be able to enjoy privacy and security, i don’t agree that GOS should compromise their standards and invite new/more threat model’s that compromise their standards for security.

I’m not downvoting you BTW. I don’t think your trolling and think you would like to enjoy GOS but can’t for one reason or another.

Any way nave a nice evening/day.

Cant expect a custom OS to sacrifice their business model and standards. Obviously they cant provide what they do on other devices and what they do is provide the most secure OS available on android.

The only phone that has the hardware security that GOS requires is the Pixel. I hope one day fairPhone has a secure enough hardware to support GOS.

I didn’t want to support google and buy a pixel either. I did and put GOS on it the second I bought it. Turns out I love GOS so much now that I don’t regret the phone purchase that much. I get it though, sucks to have to buy something from google.

Arch isnt that hard to use, just more maintenance, you have to update often and you can break things easier. It is defiantly harder to install. Thats why I recommend Garuda as it has a nice gui installer. It comes fully riced too. KDE dragonized is what i went with. The non gaming edition.

You will have to maintain your new system with fresh updates very regularly. You will have to get used to going through .pacnew files. Luckily there are easy ways to do this using meld to view pacnew files side by side with their corresponding config file that helps you migrate data easily.

Being an arch based distro your on the bleeding edge of linux and this means sometimes you will get cut! But an update will come along fairly quickly to heal those wounds. For instance the screen rotation broke a few months back. Easy fix in udev config though.

Debian based distros are pretty bullet proof, takes a but more to fuck one up. You’ll have to wait a lot longer for the things arch users get every day.

Personally i don’t find garuda to be that hard to maintain but Im used to arch already so I know what to expect and more of how to fix things. One of the best things about garuda is it uses brtfs by default and sets up snapper for you so when things go wrong you have an easier time fixing things.

You can always try it out and if it’s not for you you can move on to the next distro. And hop until you find what your looking for.

Best of luck!

So I installed Fedora on my surface. It was a huge pain in the ass. Then I went the with easy arch install of Garuda and everything has been pretty painless. I’m not really suggesting you follow suit as arch distros do require a bit of maintenance others don’t. But you can research garuda and see if it’s a fit for your needs and see if the maintenance is worth it. One benefit of the arch install is almost everything worked right out of the box. Didn’t even need a usb heyboard for installation. Full disk encryption was easy to use because the keyboard just works. That wasn’t the case in fedora, i has installed with full disk encryption and would have to pull out the USB keyboard every boot just to unlock and boot then I could plug the surface keyboard back in to use. Just a heads up if you are wanting to use full disk encryption. You can also set up the encryption to unlock via USB and while not that hard to setup that might be more work than you want to be doing.

Whatever distro you pick you should install the linux-surface kernel and drivers for the stylus. They can be found here, along with specific instructions.

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

Hands down the most advanced and secure smartphone os is grapheneOS.

https://grapheneos.org/

It only runs on pixel devices. App sandboxing, buffer overflow protection, separate users, optional sandboxed google play if you need it for banking apps, automatic reboot after a set time to re encrypt your filesystem, assigning permissions for app access to folders and the list goes on and on.

Begun the mech was has.

Been using it on arch for three years, pretty solid fs if ask me. Even started using it for all my external drives. Never had a problem.

You can scrub and balance your fs with brrfs -assistant. Snapper is awesome. Still use deja-dup for a bit of daily backups of personal working files in $USER.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

I don’t know if this would help but it might be worth a try, make a file immutable by

sudo chattr +i /file/location

If it doesn’t work change it back,

sudo chattr -i /file/location

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1456460/verification-failed-0x1a-security-violation-while-installing-ubuntu

Never had this happen on my setup. Have a nv3080 optimus with integrated AMD GPU though.

I don’t think I can help per say but it might help others if they knew a bit more about your setup.

1. Distro
2. Nvidia driver version nivida-smi
3. Kernel version uname -a
4. Plasma version plasmashell --version
5. KDE version Kf5-config --version

Those bits might help.

Obligatory, FUCK YOU Lars Ulrich!

The better get some mines nukes and mines on their border then. I know Poland is preparing.

So just Poland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway then. Those countries better EU up, and soon!

If you have 2 separate drives each with their own boot loader and you tell your bios to boot from the grub bootloader and grub has successfully detected another OS like windows everything will be fine.

The trouble with dual booting comes from splitting a drive into partitions with different OS’s on them sharing the same boot partition. Eventually windows will nuke grub and you will loose the ability to boot linux till you use a live USB to repair through chroot and fixing/installing grub manually or using a grub-repair live USB. Usually only gets complicated if you have luks set up.

I don’t advise dual booting on a single drive. I intentionally buy gaming laptops with dual drive setups and keep the windows drive untouched till the warranty is out. Just in case i have to send it in for repair. Been doing this since 2004 without ever having any bootloader issues that I didn’t cause myself.