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So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don't spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn't go as expected).

I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it's a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.

Here are some things that I couldn't find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->

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1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out

I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I've switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.

(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules

Then enter the following in the file :

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"

Keep in mind that you may have "card1" instead of "card0" you can check it by doing an ls within

/sys/class/drm/

Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :

cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high

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2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.

this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome

Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never

This should fix it.

But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don't think they have a fix for this yet.

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3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)

This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I'd share.

Just symlink the Game directories you want to

.steam/steam/steamapps/common

like :

ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder 

For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/

I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don't work unless you start the container.

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4. KDE plasma desktop and task manager panel frozen and crashes randomly.

This issue is likely related to any applets you have added to the panel or the desktop. For me this happened when I added the 'Network speed Indicator' and tried to resize the panel (strangely this never occurred to me in the past, but hey it's been a solid 5 years since I tried KDE or any DE for that matter)

The solution is to either delete or rename the following file to something else

~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc

Then restart the system. Plasma should create a new file which will essentially reset the panel and desktop settings to stock.

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I hope that someone will find use in the contents of this post.

So a week ago I wiped my SSD and tried Kinoite and Bazzite. I switched mostly for a fresh Wayland experience with Plasma and also so that I don't spend too much time tinkering to solve some minor issues ( well it didn't go as expected).

I ended up settling with Aurora-dx because it's a good balance between Kinoite and Bazzite while still offering all the Ublue goodies.

Here are some things that I couldn't find fixes for even after I tried Reddit and the Ublue forums ->

---

1. Opening any Flatpak app or moving the cursor makes the display black out

I actually started experiencing this issue in other distros way before I switched to Kinoite / Ublue. After I've switched to AMD this was happening almost every time I turned on the computer.

(This is AMD specific) The issue can be fixed by setting a udev rule, like this :

sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/30-amdgpu-pm.rules

Then enter the following in the file :

KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", DRIVERS=="amdgpu", ATTR{device/power_dpm_force_performance_level}="high"

Keep in mind that you may have "card1" instead of "card0" you can check it by doing an ls within

/sys/class/drm/

Alternatively if you just want your display to stop blacking out in your current session only then :

cat sys/class/drm/card1/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level >> high

---

2. Display turns off entirely in Fullscreen applications.

this is probably KDE specific, I do not know about Gnome

Display Configuration > Adaptive Sync > Never

This should fix it.

But when the computer wakes up after a sleep session, the issue could appear again. I don't think they have a fix for this yet.

---

3. Steam not able to add directories from any other location (including any folders in the same drive)

This is not a proper solution, It just happened to work for me so I thought I'd share.

Just symlink the Game directories you want to

.steam/steam/steamapps/common

like :

ln -s PATH_To_Game_Folder ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Game_Folder 

For the folks using flatpak steam the steam directory will be under .var/apps/

I personally use Bazzite-arch container for gaming and it has been working really well, although the game shortcuts don't work unless you start the container.

I hope this post helps someone out.

I have been using CachyOS for more than 6 months at this point and I'm pretty happy with it. Among the many distros I tried, this is probably my favourite arch based distro. I initially installed it because it offered Hyprland desktop, and I didn't want to bring over my messy config nor did I want to start from scratch. But sometimes when I want to game or when I wake up my computer from sleep the display would just keep blacking out and won't let me use it until I restart the computer (I am using an AMD GPU btw). This issue has been happening on Plamsa 6, and Gnome as well. I have tried various fixes from the ArchWiki but it's still there. Other than that I really liked the Distro.

It's not like changing distros can solve my moitor blacking out problem, but I'm going to try something based on Silverblue for a change. Yes, I have tried the Ublue project in the past, it was good but I couldn't get into the whole immutable thing back then, so I hopped back to my staple Arch/Tumbleweed and carried on. Fast forward to today.. I'm thinking about trying Bazzite or Aurora as the idea of having a low maintenance system is now very appealing to me.

I'm not necessarily a hardcore gamer but I do play games every other day and also run some LLMs locally every now and then. I'm not sure which one I should go for between Bazzite and Aurora. Maybe someone who has run both can give their opinion.

I'm thinking of something like stremio but for audio.

An android app would be great

There are apps like Spotube which are cool but it doesn't have ability to stream lossless audio.

Any suggestions ?

A couple of weeks ago I installed stremio from the AUR on my arch installation and it showed me an option to play the video in mpv player.

I expected the same thing on my NixOS setup but it doesn't show me the option to open in MPV. I also tried with flatpaks and it also didn't have the option to open in mpv.

As for why I want to open on MPV, I am using anime4k to upscale and sharpen my anime and I'm very used to mpv's controls.

Does anyone know how to get this working ?

This is crosspost from animepiracy

I don't want to change drivers on my host Distro as I want to game on it. I'm currently using the open source amdgpu drivers for my rx 6600.

The idea is to use the distrobox containers for running software like oogabooga text-chat-webui and stable diffusion, fooocus etc.

I don't know if that works but I thought I'd ask.

I just got a AMD RX6600 because I was having issues with my old gtx 1660 super. It's not a big upgrade but I got this card for $120 (and it was only lightly used for 5 months by the seller).

I wanted to give wayland a try and It was working fine for a few hours but now, the screen blacks out every time I open or close an application.

I have tried restarting, logging out and logging back in. Also updated the system, mesa packages etc. (This is on a fresh install of Opensuse Tumbleweed, but I also had the same issue on my Artix install with xfce)

~~Strangely enough, the issue doesn't seem to affect my Hyprland session much.~~ Now it's also coming in my Hyprland session.

The GPU works fine on Windows too. No black screen there.

EDIT: I fixed it. I enabled the packman repo at some point, which had slightly older packages and that caused the problem. Everything got sorted out once I deprioritized the packman repo and updated the system.

So I downloaded Dodi's Sekiro repack and installed it through bottles, but the game does not launch.

Also tried adding the exe file to Heroic, gave me the same result as Bottles.

On windows, I remember this exact repack working perfectly. So maybe they way I installed it in Linux is causing the issue ?

I know one shouldn't be installing apps from shady sources, but what if I just want to try out and app before actually purchasing it from the play store.

Are there any good sources to download from ?