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.

  • Alaknár@lemm.eeOP
    1·
    3 days ago

    (K)Ubuntu is configured to apply updates at reboot to minimize any breakages

    That’s the problem - it never did apply the updates. I even tested that by manually telling it to download them all and then rebooting once they were all ready to install. I had to re-download them all after logging back in.

    I also noticed that one account was always getting app updates while OS updates were ONLY showing up for the primary account,

    I get how this may be “by design”, but it’s an infuriating design. :D

    Did the toolbar just disappear from all apps?

    Correct. It was just not there. I was able to add the Global Toolbar widget and get a “Mac-like” experience, or add it as a hamburger button on the titlebar, but that’s it.

    Automatic mounting of drives is done easiest through editing the /etc/fstab file in Linux. I am not aware any other methods that are more user-friendly

    Which is also extremely bad design, if you ask me. For removable drives - sure, why not. But if it’s a bloody NVMe sitting on the motherboard? Also: there just should be a prompt going “do you want to auto-mount this” the moment the user mounts it through Dolphin for the first time.

    Unless you have a specific reason for using Tuxedo OS, I would highly recommend Fedora with KDE Plasma desktop environment

    As of right now, I’m having a great time with Tuxedo OS - other than the Sleep function not working, everything else is smooth sailing. I don’t want to use Fedora, because I’m more familiar (if still barely) with the Debian Linux family.

    It also ships with the latest versions of the kernel, so you’ll have less driver issues.

    Is there an easy way to check the kernel version I’m running vs the latest available?

    • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      Most graphical system updaters (e.g Discover) use packagekit instead of calling on apt directly. 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/fstab file 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 (dnf vs. 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:

      $ uname -r

      The latest version of the kernel can be found in the official website of the Linux kernel.