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Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux
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Beware some issues if your hardware isnt popular, I have freezing on all kernels past 6.136-2, so I'm stuck there. (test them all every update, no matter what I get hella random freezing requiring a power button restart) It is very stable and fast tho, kinda scary thinking the bug never gets fixed tho, still new to Linux and assuming it's bad to not update the kernel longgerm.
I had that issue last time I switched to Linux. Thankfully eventually it went away. It should help to distro hop to a more bleeding edge distro. Fedora specifically gets system updates every night through Discover.
I'm on cachyos, thought arch was the most bleeding edge
Arch is above my skill level at the moment. If CachyOS is an Arch distro, it could be related to Arch configuration issues.
Have you tried a different distro base such as Fedora or SUSE compared to Debians based? I have a laptop that will not install Debian based distros due to hardware error or bug, or if it does install they fail to boot with hardware errors messages. Fedora and SUSE work though, and ironically nixOS.
Fedora Kinoite has worked perfectly for me.
I tried mint and endeavour (also arch tho so I guess its the same) Mint had the same freezing issue. Thought it was my hardware because I had reinstalled my os when problems began, eventually tried the lts kernel and it became stable like it was originally. They recentlly updated it tho, so I have to prevent updates (idk how so I just rollback from the cache after every pacman -Syu)
Nvidia?
all amd ryzen 6900hx 6850mxt