This happens to me once in a while with Fedora KDE. Usually right after a kernel update and I can resolve by going back to the previous kernel for a few days. Always guessed it was the AMD GPU driver.
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I came here to say this also. First bad update and then both would be broken and pretty stressful for your friend...
Pile in if I'm wrong, but I dual boot win11 and linux it works fine. The only condition is it has to be separate physical disk. I wasn't able to use the same hard drive with just partitions had to be completely different drives.
Did you try dual boot with one drive? Windows will fuck that up.
I didn't have any intention of arguing..I was curious what you didn't like about it. You're entitled to your opinion.
What did Fedora do to hurt you so much?
That's wild, I'm on Fedora KDE and haven't noticed any of these issues so far.. Opens pretty fast, finds what I'm looking for. I didn't see the UI bug he's talking about with items being misaligned. I must just be lucky.
Kernel 6.16.4 had a bug that caused packet loss. Patched in 6.16.5. Looks like Bazzite just updated (today?) from 6.16.4 to 6.17.5.
EDIT: Adding link talking about the bug
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/talk-kernel-6-16-3-causes-intermittent-network-issues/163344
In KDE if you furiously move the mouse pointer in frustration, as one would when they can't find it, the pointer will grow in size. Brighter minds than mine might be able to port that into Cinnamon.
You do gotta respect linux and communism.
Not sure this is the answer, but going to throw my two cents. If you try and it works let us know.
When I got back into linux a couple years ago I hopped through all of the distros you mentioned. The last one being KDE Neon. When I first found it I absolutely loved it. Decided that was going to be my main distro and started migrating all my systems which is a couple laptops, gaming desktop, and mini PC.
Over time I found that I was having minor, but consistent hardware issues. Similar to yours, freezing, and other gpu issues. It was most apparent on systems that had newer hardware. Looking at the specs for your mini PC it seems a bit older than what I have so again, not sure this applies to you, but I found my saving grace in Fedora. My issue specifically was the older kernel Neon uses not interacting well with my newer hardware and in some cases not having access to some hardware features. Fedora had a KDE spin otherwise I wouldn't have done it. It has been my daily driver on all systems since.
TL;DR: Try Feodra KDE Spin or any distro that ships with a more up to date kernel
Flax is working for big Vegetable tryna get us to buy more carrots oe something.
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Not typically what you'd think of when somebody says "mom's computer," but this is exactly what happens when my GPU overheats. Monitors stay on with black screen and no response from keyboard input.