I’ve been a linux server admin for almost 20 years but I’ve never been able to fully switch from Windows for my daily driver. With all the Windows 11 bullshit I want desperately to switch but I feel like I can’t win with a desktop distro. I’ve had nothing but issues related to hardware/drivers with each distro I’ve tried.
Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43 has given me the most luck but it’s left me with one glaring issue which has me writing this post from Windows - how the fuck do I configure the OS to wake the monitors properly after going to sleep? If my monitors go black either from display sleep, OS sleep, or OS hibernation, the system can wake just fine but the displays show no detected input. I’ve tried both the open and proprietary nvidia drivers with no luck. I’ve also configured s2idle as the only sleep configuration and while it sometimes allows the monitors to wake without issue, it doesn’t always work.
Am I just missing something? Is there a different distro I should try? I’ve now been through Manjaro, Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop_os, Arch, and Kali with nothing fully working for my hardware.
Really feeling like I should just give up and give it another few years and try again - any advise otherwise? I’d really really like to abandon microslop.
MSI MS-7E16 (X670E Gaming Plus Wifi)
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
Nvidia RTX 4080 Super
64 GB DDR5
Latest Bios and firmware for everything; all software/os features up-to-date
You are not the only one. My monitor is hit or miss on if it will comeback with waking up from a long stent in sleep mode. I’m on Bazzite myself and I got an LG 4k 144hz ultra wide monitor with a nvidia 3060. It even would happen on Win 11 too. It actually happens less on Linux than Win 11. I’m connected via display port and I’ve heard that’s actually where the issue lies or possibly the make of the monitor but I don’t really want to use hdmi. I just deal with it because it’s not every time. I either shut the computer down when I’m done with it or will be away from it for a while or do a hard reboot when it happens. I’ve tried turning the monitor off and on again when it happens or reseating the cable connection on the monitor side when it happens with middling results. I’ve also tried to make sure all my software, drivers, and firmware are up to date as well as ruling out the cable. I’m at a loss short of trying a different GPU or monitor, which I can’t afford to do.