u/Anxious-Train5431

As the title says, whenever I add a second panel (IE taskbar) onto my desk, Cinnamon starts acting up and randomly crashing. I end up having to restart Cinnamon at least 2-3 times a day, which I find annoying, especially for a distro labeled as "stable" (I know the DE and the distro are different things, but still).

This happens even though my Mint installations are fresh installs (no modifications done, custom themes applied or packages downloaded), on both my laptop (Acer with a Ryzen 6800u, which has a Radeon 680m as the iGPU) and on my desktop (Ryzen 5600X + Radeon 6700XT + 32 GB DDR4 dual-channel memory @3200 MT/S per DOCP).

By no means are both my laptop and my desktop ultra high-end, but looking at the Mint requirements, I reckon they're both more than capable enough, so what gives? How come activating a feature baked into vanilla Cinnamon break it so easily? If using more than one panel causes instability, I think the Mint team should at least include a "caution" or a "feature in beta" label when activating it. Or am I doing anything wrong? IDK at this point, what do you guys think?

Maybe this has already been discussed, but I haven't found a single post about it. What's stopping AMD devs from creating an FSR 4 FP8 implementation that can run on their Ryzen AI processors? Like, the AI acceleration hardware is already there, and AFAIK, it's capable of processing FP8, so why not use it to enable neural upscaling on machines with a GPU that don't officially support it? Would performance be bad? Or maybe create an FSR 4 "lite" version that can run on the CPUs already existing AI accelerators?

I know not many of us have CPUs with NPUs, but for those who do, wouldn't it be a genius idea for AMD to create this version of FSR so players can enable it without buying RDNA4? The hardware is already there, in many desktops, being used to accelerate other AI workloads, couldn't it be leveraged to make FSR4 more accessible for gamers? If anything, I think this could boost their CPU sales, as I think many of us would rather upgrade to a modestly-priced CPU with NPUs that can run FSR4 instead of discarding perfectly capable RDNA2 and RDNA3 cards just because AMD won't play ball and give us the INT8 FSR4 version.

What do you think? Is this feasible? I don't know mucho about AI, but it sounds logic to me.