None of the settings have worked, but I did find 2 interesting settings hanging out in bios.

Would either changing the South Bridge speed or turning on the Compatibility Support Module (CSM) do anything?

I took a short look, but all the slots were on auto. My options were all pcie gen 1, 2, 3, or 4. My motherboard is an ASUS TUF Gaming X570 Plus Wifi, and I’m not really sure if the 2 M.2 slots eat my 2 PCIE x1 slots or not.

6.13.1-arch1-1 for x86_64

The firmware package is the upd72020x-fw (AUR only) package which is required by the mkinitcpio-firmware package. I have tried reinstalling both packages using both pacman and paru in case one gave extra errors.

Should be the most recent given that I run a recently updated Arch installation.

My Arch system stays on until a firmware package needs an update. Then i cry and scream bc it’s only been a month since the last one. Also I just updated a bunch of those, so my system has not been on long.

My issue is that I can never remember “a couple more commands” for the life of me. And I use Arch BTW, so the likelihood of me needing those is a bit higher than usual.

He can be an asshole, but I believe finding bugs is part of his job.

Would you rather have him find them and complain to a community who might know what they could be, or someone else who will just complain and buy a MacBook instead?

It’s definitely great for the mainstream. Think of Linus Sebastian who has somehow broken every OS except for SteamOS.

It’s not great for me who uses Arch Linux btw with the expectation that if the system doesn’t break on its own, then I will break it myself.

Some of the stuff I would do if my system was held together by more than literally just hopes and dreams.

If you’re running an Nvidia gpu, then Linux Mint is great for not needing to deal with setup issues.

If you’re going with an AMD gpu or no gpu at all, then i actually recommend Garuda Linux. It’s Arch-based so you may need to keep up with the updates more often. But you’ll get access to the AUR, a centralized* repository for just about every program you’ll need to install. I personally find it and pacman easier to use than apt.

What spec of laptop are you thinking of getting?

I kinda wanna try Gentoo just for the experience, but as someone who already uses Arch, I’m worried it will take up more of my time than my current setup already does.

My point is less that leaving Arch alone breaks things and more that updating after a really long time can break something. It also kinda defeats the point of using a rolling release distro. I can see how you thought i was spreading misinformation though. My bad for poor wording.

Arch Linux with NVIDIA is definitely not great for newbies, especially for people who can’t keep up with the distro. If left unupdated for too long, your system may break. Even if you update every day, you could break something. You just never win with a rolling release distro like this. My only saving grace is that I run with an AMD gpu and so far, that thing has just worked.

My tip for anyone switching to Linux is to switch to AMD. Even if NVIDIA is better overall for performance and features, even if the last time you tried AMD on your windows system it was slow and a bit buggy, on Linux, AMD just works, without extra steps.

Man i didn’t know the Thunderbird logo turned into reverse Firefox

I also had that problem, but didn’t think much of it since I don’t really turn off my VPN often. It only really affected me when either my first issue occurred or ProtonVPN crashed for whatever reason. So far, running ProtonVPN through OpenVPN had solved this issue for me.

I pirate old stuff and overpriced stuff permanently. I refuse to pay an ebay seller $200 for an old GameCube game and I refuse to pay $700 dollars for all the Sims 4 dlc. You may also catch me pirating movies and shows as I strongly dislike subscription models.

I usually have lucid dreams in the third person where I’m not a character in the story. I instead control the other characters like in a video game and I can save scum to get a particularly hard to achieve outcome. Usually, I like to let events pan out by themselves though, as that leads to the most interesting results.

Gaming

• TheRussianBadger - gaming with good humor and editing

• Max0r - gaming with good humor, voice acting, and insane editing

• Scott the Woz - for that old YouTube feel

• RTGame - funny Irish gaming man

• Call Me Kevin - funny Irish gaming man

• Indeimaus - mostly horror and Metroidvania gaming

• Game Apologist - good Sonic content

• RadKing - Fallout content

• Iron Pineapple - From Software enthusiast

• MuYe - BeamNG content

• The Orpheon - good Metroid content

Tech Stuffs

• Louis Rossman - disgruntled business tech repair man

• Gamers Nexus - pc tech review

• Linus Tech Tips (and its other channels) - LMG has been making some very good changes since their first response to their recent controversies. If they actually deliver with them, then all of these channels should be good to watch. Mac Address should be fine to watch as it has been stated that the channel and group affiliated are kept somewhat separated from the rest of LMG for various reasons.

• Hardware Unboxed - Australian pc tech review

• Monitors Unboxed - Hardware Unboxed for Monitors

• Dave’s Garage - cool Windows tricks from the guy who made the Task Manager

• The Cherno - good Australian C++ channel

Open Source Stuffs

• Nicco Loves Linux - good KDE and GNOME stuff

• The Linux Experiment - Linux and open source news

• unfa🇺🇦 - open source audio solutions

• Mental Outlaw - the libre man

• Royal Skies - free and open 2d and 3d content and assets

Animation

• TerminalMontage - great animations

• Noodle - great story animator

Practical Experiments

• The Slow Mo Guys - slow motion videos of pretty cool stuff

• Hacksmith Industries - cool Sci-Fi irl building channel

• Shadiversity - medieval weapon and armour experimentation

• ElectroBOOM - shocking experiments

• Major Hardware - 3d printing and fan design showdown

• Donut - good car content

Music

• SilvaGunner - wacky game music

• Eurobeat Gems - great if you like Eurobeat music

Education

• Audio University - how your sound system works

• Kyle Hill - science with nerd Thor

• LockPickingLawyer - you will never look at locks the same way

Miscellaneous

• No Text To Speech - cool for Discord users

• Fact Fiend - miscellaneous facts and British banter

• Bosnian Ape Society - If you’ve seen Nvidia Bread, then you’ll understand.

• High Boi - movie summaries

There’s more that I could # recommend, but I couldn’t figure out how to describe them.