Hi all!
I recently installed Tuxedo OS with KDE and Wayland. I’m fairly new to Linux and, so far, the distro is great. With one caveat.
As far as power options go, everything works fine EXCEPT for Sleep. I can put the PC to sleep, but when I wake it up, I land on the login screen wallpaper with the login/password fields barely visible, as if frozen around the second frame of a fade-in animation.
Nothing works. The mouse cursor doesn’t move, the keyboard doesn’t do anything. The only way out of this state is to hold the power button until the PC shuts down and then turn it back on again.
I did some digging, but couldn’t find a solution. Some threads mentioned modifying something in systemd, but those were from years ago, so I didn’t want to risk that.
One fairly recent thread had a proposed solution of adding "mem_sleep_default=deep" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub.
That didn’t work for me, though.
I’d love to fix this, but I’m out of ideas. Any help welcome!
EDIT
Forgot it might be a driver issue, people were complaining about Nvidia gear!
I currently don’t have a dedicated GPU. I only have Ryzen 7 7800X3D running on MSI B650 Gaming Plus WIFI ATX AM5 MoBo.
Most graphical system updaters (e.g Discover) use
packagekitinstead of calling onaptdirectly. 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/fstabfile 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 (
dnfvs.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:
The latest version of the kernel can be found in the official website of the Linux kernel.
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.
Glad to hear that. Which distro did you choose?
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…).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.
I’m pretty happy with the state of the OS and GUI as it is right now. Just moved a couple of things around, basically.
I do have a problem with Flathub, though - in theory, it’s great. But I’m going to be playing games on this PC and Flathub causes MASSIVE problems for Steam and Heroic Launcher, their libraries and Proton compatibility. Love the idea, don’t like the execution.
Garuda (or maybe it’s an Arch thing?) does a phenomenal thing with AppImage files - when I launched the first one it asked me if I want to add shortcuts to Application Laucher and tuck the AppImage away in a safe spot, so that it doesn’t sit in Downloads. LOVE that feature.
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.