In the comment section of a review by Tim from Hardware Unboxed I saw a person who managed to spoof their GPU on Linux to use FSR4 with RDNA3. Performance was very low (much lower than even native resolution).

So, it does look like it leverages hardware features introduced with RDNA4.

Great.

I thought NVK was going to support only Turing and onwards, since it relied on GSP firmware.

It is great. I have been using Linux for about three years and majority of that was with KDE Plasma and its Wayland session. Most of that time was with Arch and Fedora and it was all smooth sailing.

It was faster and smoother than GNOME Shell, Cinnamon or any other desktop I have tried.

It may have slightly more bugs compared to GNOME Shell due to sheer amount of features it has.

As others have mentioned, you might have a hardware issue that coincidentally pops up with Plasma.

That’s very unfortunate. However, I’d like mention a few things about attempting a self-repair:

• You don’t need a heat gun to disassemble it. A simple Philips head screwdriver will do.
• Batteries are dangerous regardless of their charge. You should be careful handling them even when they are fully discharged.

I disable the integrated GPU of my processor through the BIOS to avoid such issues. But it gets enabled by itself at each BIOS update.

Fedora version has been packaged by Fedora Linux developers, while the other is published by LibreOffice developers themselves. The former may be only slightly out of date. Choose whichever one you feel comfortable with.

Cheers!

Kind of. Atomic versions of Fedora are designed to be set it and forget it kind of distro. New releases can cause issues with third party packages.

• dnf-automatic looks a like a package designed for non-Atomic versions of Fedora.
• libreoffice is available as a flatpak. You should avoid layering packages as much as possible.
• A VPN app makes sense to have layered. I assume it comes from a third-party repository added to /etc/yum.repos.d. It is possible this package does not support Fedora 42 yet. You can try removing it to see if the update succeeds.
• rpmfusion is a repository providing packages that often cannot be pre-installed due to some legal reasons. Unless you need/installed a package from there, uninstall it.

Do you have any layered packages? Verify with

~$ rpm-ostree status

Flatpak applications run in a sandboxed environment with limited permissions. Steam, being a proprietary app, was never made with flatpak sandboxing in mind, so you need to poke holes in it’s sandbox for it if you want it to see your files. Most people do not store their games in a separate location, so the default is pretty constrained.

Applications can have sandbox holes by default. Just checked Heroic’s permissions and it can see flatpak Steam’s directories. I don’t know what might have went wrong for you.

What problems did you have? I have been using Steam and Heroic as flatpaks for a long time, and never had any issues.

That must Gear Lever, pre-installed. Pretty neat program.

Garuda Linux was one of my first distros when I started three years ago. It is fine, but I generally prefer customizing my system to my liking, including installed applications. I switched to Arch Linux (which is what Garuda is based on) after a few days. After using it for two and a half years, I realized I was spending way too much time customizing it. Then I switched to Fedora and it was a really tame experience. Now I am using uBlue Aurora, which is a fork of Fedora Kinoite (Atomic variant of Fedora KDE Plasma spin). It updates everything automatically and in one go (similar to smartphones) and I download all my apps from Flathub. It is practically the opposite of what I was doing with Arch.

What’s new in this release:

• Support for larger page sizes on ARM64.
• …

Does this mean gaming on Asahi Linux now became easier, since you can omit the VM part?

Glad to hear that. Which distro did you choose?

On that page I have found only one report matching your description and that was four years ago. I am guessing whatever is going on must be an Nvidia quirk.

What’s your hardware?

I was recently looking for a decent WiFi 7 router to replace my aging Archer A6. Then, looked up the table of hardware at toh.openwrt.org and almost none of the WiFi 7 routers from mainstream brands was supported. Glad to see something first-party releasing soon. I’ll definitely buy one when it releases.

Can you check the system journal (just like before) to see whether there were any logs about it?

Most graphical system updaters (e.g Discover) use packagekit instead of calling on apt directly. This may lead to them having conflicting list of upgradable packages. Updating through either way will eventually refresh the cache and things will go back to normal.

I have never had to share a computer with other people, so can’t really comment on that.

I did try messing around with my Plasma desktop to try and replicate that, but did not find that option. Though, I am sure that’s configurable and you changed it accidentally. You should ask around KDE forums about that.

I understand your frustration as an end-user, coming from other operating systems. But, you should keep in mind that Linux is just the kernel and it was made to be as modular as possible. Since you can use it with many different desktops, there needs to be a common way apps from those desktops can perform this. I believe Gnome can do this graphically through its Disks utility, which just edits the /etc/fstab file in the background. You could request this feature from the KDE developers though.

Edit: sorry, I now remember KDE Partition Manager and it can do the same, like Gnome Disks.

Since you are new to Linux, the differences Fedora and Ubuntu will have for you will come down to the package manager (dnf vs. apt), and since you prefer to update your system graphically, you shouldn’t notice any difference.

You can find your kernel version by searching “About this System” in KDE Plasma, or using the following command:

$ uname -r

The latest version of the kernel can be found in the official website of the Linux kernel.