u/GalacticDragon7

My self-built PC running both Windows 11 and Bazzite Linux has, in the last 2 weeks, been unable to use ethernet to connect to the internet. I am less concerned about Linux reconnecting, so have been focusing my troubleshooting on Windows.

This is what I've done so far trying to fix this:

• Power cycled my PC
• Power cycled my router
• Performed a full network reset
• Reinstalled drivers, and then updated to newer versions
• Disabled and re-enabled the LAN port in the BIOS
• Tested the connection with another laptop (it didn't work)
• Changed the cables from the router to the wall adapter, and the wall to my PC
• Changed which port the cable is connected to on the router
• Tested the connection with another laptop again, but only for half a minute (strangely, it worked this time)
• Manually set an IPV4 address, mask, and gateway on my computer
• Manually reserved my IP address on the router end over both wireless and wired connections to my PC, using the same IP for wired as manually set
• Performed a partial reinstall of Windows through 'Recovery > Fix using Windows Update'
• Performed a full network reset again
• Waited to see if automatic settings would work (they didn't)
• Manually set the IPV4 settings again

Other info that may be helpful:

• The lights on the ethernet port look fine (one solid, one blinking)
• The dual-boot OS setup has given me zero issues in 2 months up until this point
• The only other device using ethernet is my home server which can access the internet with no issues (it also has a fixed IP address)
• The ethernet adapter on my PC is a "Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family Controller"
• The Wi-Fi adaptor is an "Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz"
• The motherboard is an MSI MPG B550I Gaming Edge WIFI
• Other hardware is AMD (not likely useful but here just in case)
• I am unaware what the server is using
• My ethernet connection does not/can not use IPV6
• My PC appears in the device list on the router under both Wireless and Wired connections

The only progress I have made is that, originally, I was unable to connect to the network either and communicate with my home server for example. The thing that fixed this was manually setting the address, etc., on the Windows end. The ethernet also reports the SSID of the network again, but only after connecting to it over wireless.

I now have a new issue where whenever my ethernet cable is plugged in, nothing that requires internet will function correctly, despite having a perfectly stable connection to the internet over Wi-Fi. Unplugging the cable allows me to use the internet normally. It's like Windows is now trying to default to ethernet even though it has no internet.

My father is convinced that this is a software configuration issue on my end. I disagree given that I have changed so much, and that this issue is occurring on two separate operating systems that have been working fine until this point. I may be wrong and I am ready to accept that, but I feel like if it was a config issue I would have solved it by now.

I did make a post about this a few days ago, but eventually all of the edits added up and people weren't always seeing them if they'd already started a comment chain with me. I want to thank the people who helped me before, but now I am REALLY stuck. I don't know where to go from here trying to solve this.

My self-built PC running both Windows 11 and Bazzite Linux has, in the last week, been unable to use ethernet at all. In Windows in the "Get Help" app I receive "No DCHP server was found," in Control Panel I can see the status of the ethernet as "No Internet access", though it seems to be connected to the network as IPV6 (which the ethernet does not use, to my knowledge) shows as "No network access".

In Bazzite, I went through an extensive command-line diagnosis process before trying to diagnose it on Windows. Both diagnoses seem to point towards the router being faulty and failing to give me an IP address, but apparently my housemate has managed to get their laptop working over ethernet when connected to the same cable in my room. I am double checking this as I am doubtful their laptop wasn't just using Wi-Fi, as they didn't turn it off to confirm. Confirmed it was working through ethernet, albeit it was only tested for about a minute.

I have power cycled my router and PC, performed a partial and a full network reset on Windows, reinstalled drivers, disabled and re-enabled the LAN port in the BIOS, manually set an IP address in Windows, all to no avail. I have tried more but I can't recall it all right now, though if you asked I'd probably remember. The only thing I haven't tried as far as I can tell is reinstalling either OS, and I would rather not try this anyway. Given that this issue is occurring on both Windows and Linux, I doubt that would fix anything.

The dual-boot setup has not given me a single issue in the 2 months I had Bazzite installed prior to this.

The lights on the port look fine (one solid, one blinking), the control panel's "Ethernet status" tells me it is somehow receiving and sending data packets at 1gb/s, and the cables are all relatively new. The sockets in the wall are barely half a year old, if that.

I am sick of this issue plaguing the back of my mind and just want it solved. I can't tell if this is a hardware or firmware issue on my end, or if it is an issue with the router. Does anyone have even the wildest of ideas what I can do to solve it?

EDIT: I should note that the ethernet adapter is a Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family Controller. Just for reference if that helps.

EDIT 2: The only other device on ethernet in my house is a home server with a few HDDs used for long-term storage. This has a fixed IP address set in the router config page.

i’ve been digging around trying to find an answer but none of the posts are very clear to me (likely due to my lack of knowledge surrounding how to use the nano terminal command). can anyone explain to me in clear terms how i do this? i’ve found many telling me to edit /boot/grub2/user.cfg (of which the file doesn’t exist), or /etc/default/grub, and i have no idea which one i should be editing nor how to edit them.

can i have some help? i’m doing this because sometimes i want to boot windows instead and i’m not quick enough to get into my BIOS boot menu and want the grub menu there longer so i can stop it booting Bazzite.

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For context, I use an exFAT external drive for storing data between my Mac and PC, the latter of which runs both Windows and Linux depending on my needs. exFAT is a universal filesystem that all OSes are supposed to be able to read fine, yet Bazzite seems to really dislike it...

How do I stop this notification popping up, or at least stop it from being persistent until manually closed, every time I mount the drive?

Basically the title.

I've been using Final Cut on my MacBook for ages now to do video editing, but since much of my recording and the actual video uploading is done from the Linux computer, it would be a whole lot more streamlined to be able to edit on there too. So, I was wondering if there were any closely-matched alternatives to FCP that work on Linux?

Feel free to recommend anything to me, but I am on a low budget, so if you have low-cost options do let me know.

Is there any way to give it a permanent icon when it's closed as well? This is the only downside to the native version for me right now.

EDIT: someone suggested Vesktop, so i checked it out, but it has the same issue with the native install. so how do i give it an icon?

I've noticed since moving to Linux that every time I start my computer again, Steam has several "shader pre-caching" updates for games that are sometimes in the gigabytes. After some research, I learned that this is to speed up load times, increase framerates, and reduce stutter by essentially preloading shaders for your game. For some, this is worth keeping on, and for others, they suggest turning it off.

The post I saw was from here over a year ago. So, what's the setting worth now?

If you've got anything to say specific to my hardware/system:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700x
RAM: 32GB
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700XT
OS: Bazzite with KDE desktop.