u/Roguepapaya427

Hey. So, basically the question in the title. But first let me give some context.

I'm a fairly new linux user, so please don't judge to harshly. I have a rather new pc hardware, mb released in Jan this year, ryzen 9700x, 9070xt, etc. Hence I tried to get to a stable, but fresh os. So far I've tried quite a few distros, each with its own quirks and advantages. Frankly, the linux landscape is amazing in 2026. I game, I'm being productive, the pc is snappier than ever. Anyway, I landed on manjaro and so far so good, set up almost everything the way i want it. But I was wondering, does it make sense to invest time into a proper brtfs snapshot recovery, something similar to cachy with limine? I mean, if the system is stable that I only have to do something to correct an issue once per year, then it does not make sense to spend time for snapshots integration in bootloader (like cachy or tw does). But if it happens more often, then maybe I should do it from the start, to prevent downtime when I do not need it.

....... by trying to get fedora44 installed on another drive without booting of USB (new mb, buggy implementation incompatible with grub2, not important). Used ai as sparring partner, managed to bring kinoite to the brink: apps would not open, crashes over crashes, warnings, konsole unusable, etc ..... i thought 'that's it! it's going to implode!'. It did not, a simple restart, pristine condition. In my mind i even hear it say a short: lol!

Did even a roll back, you know, just in case. I was smiling the whole time during restart! It still feels like a cheat ......

I did my worse, and I failed and I'm not even sorry! Kinoite is king!

PS: after reboot, did the usual update, and i think I saw a new plasma version ...... I might be wrong, but going to check tomorrow.

Problem was that i had 2 apps that dis not want to open in my tw installation. Blamed my hardware, as I changed my mb 2 days ago and thought something must have broke after the change of mb (I know, windows refugee thinking). So, went on and wrote an USB with tw and booted form it.

Surprise: out of memory error!

And I tried everything i could think of: so disabled, optimized defaults bios setting, non expo ram, iommu disabled, 5 USB sticks, 2 USB sticks writers, dvd version and net install version..... all in all, about 5 hours. I was out of ideas. Almost went on and disassembled my desktop. One more thing, all my 3 other installed distro working as expected: fedora kde, kinoite, solus.

As I was out of ideas, tried one more thing: install kubuntu. Same error!

Cool, so it's not tw fault! I was sparring with chatgpt and suggested to try a distro that is not grub related. Tried cachy, it works!

I have the bug report for opensuse team ready, will fill it in tomorrow! For now, I'm just so glad my hardware is not faulty! Truth be told, the asus B850 NEO mbs are not that successful, probably not a lot of people will face these issues!

PS: so that's how you end up with cachyos installed! I haven't even consider until today I will end up with an arch based os on my desktop! 😁

Edit: bug created in bugzilla.

A couple of days ago a TUF x650 mb died on me. First time a MB dies in my pc, but hey, it can happen, will sent it to warranty. But I was eyeing a rog strix for a long time and I settled for a neo: ROG STRIX B850-F GAMING WIFI7 NEO.
Everything went smooth, the installation in the pc, connected all my drives, booted my OSes just fine. Until this morning when I tried to replace one of my OS installations with another one. I've tried 5 dif linux distros, they are all tripping when trying to boot from the usb drive:

https://preview.redd.it/wxjfe061pf5h1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abd3737007a7b26caaf2c6d6cc6e127023cd9e31

Sooo, tried basically Leap, Tumbleweed (both web installer and dvd image), Kubuntu, Solus. All of them fail after selecting install from the boot menu. I blamed the usb drive, tried 2 others, same result. I tried various other USB ports, nothing works.

Used chatgpt as a sparring partner about this. It seems like I have too many M2s populated ...... AI "thinks" (it does not, but hey it's good enough as a sparring partner if you do not trust anything it says) that the issue resides in too many M2s that leave no lanes for usb controllers. That seems far fetched, but I will try to remove 3 of the 4 M2s to check this.

X870(E) might not have this issue, should be specific to B850 chipset due to the limited availability of lanes (only 1 promontory chip). At least in theory!

Has anyone else experienced this with a NEO MB?

So, switching takes only 18 minutes? And I was reading some posts in between, so it might have been even faster. Or am I doing something wrong?

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  ,ool'     oo,;oo:                            OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed x86_64
.lo'        oo.   oo:                          Kernel: Linux 7.0.10-2-default
.oo.         oo.    oo:                         Uptime: 5 mins
:ol          oo.    'oo                         Packages: 14 (flatpak), 2786 (rpm)
:oo         .oo.    .oo.                        Shell: bash 5.3.9
.oooooooooooooo.    .oo.                        Display (MSI MAG401QR): 3440x1440 in 34", 144 Hz [External] *
;oo.               .oo.                        Display (Q32G1WG4): 2560x1440 in 32", 60 Hz [External]
 'oo,              .oo.                        DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.5
   "ooc,',,,,,,,,,,:ooc,,,,,,,,,,,             WM: KWin (X11)
':cooooooooooooooooooooooooool;.         WM Theme: Breeze
.oo.             .oo;       Theme: Breeze (Classic) [Qt], Breeze [GTK2/3]
.oo.               .oo.     Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK2/3/4]
.oo.    'oooooooooo:ooo.    Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
.oo.    'oo.         col    Cursor: breeze (24px)
.oo'    'oo          col    Terminal: konsole 26.4.1
coo    'oo          oo'    CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X (16) @ 5.58 GHz
coc   'oo        .lo,     GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT [Discrete]
`oo, 'oo      .:oo       Memory: 4.33 GiB / 30.40 GiB (14%)
'ooooc,, ,:lol         Swap: 0 B / 2.00 GiB (0%)
`''"clc"'           Disk (/): 23.94 GiB / 929.01 GiB (3%) - btrfs
Local IP (eno1): 192.168.50.184/24
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I did, because why not?! Right. Well, it removed mariadb, hence my nextcloud was rendered unusable. 😁

Small edit to clarify: it is not my intention to criticize Alma or it's technology! The system is rock solid and I absolutely love it! It is a self critique for running things without properly reading what the system is communicating. It's all in jest, not trying to be taken seriously! As always, the biggest menace for a linux system resides between the screen and the keyboard: the user!

I'm well into my 4th week with solus as my main on desktop. I could not find an app that I desired and not have in the repo. The smoothness and polish of this system does not stop to amaze me. Responsive, everything works with minimal input from me. Solseek feels like ..... almost like a cheat. Raised a couple of bug reports, both were answered by multiple people in hours (one is kde related, the other is from an upstream issue).
The experience is amazing! I wish I knew about this years ago, and not deal with windows bs for that long.

BTW, every piece of my hardware works, better put flies on my desktop. Printer, mouse (well I still have the primary mouse not supported by open razer, but they will at some point, waiting for it paciently), scanner, etc.

Solus - smooth sailing!

The OS installed just fine few days ago, Alma KDE flavor. Configured everything (it's a nextcloud server) and left it to run. Today I wanted to update as usual, i got 270 mismatches related to plasma. Ran nobest and left it. To my surprise, when i opened the TV (it's hooked to the TV, because it should be headless anyway, but for troubleshooting TV does it just fine), it showed terminal, no GUI. Was thinking "LOL, did I just manage to break it in like less than a week, by doing absolutely nothing with it?!??!?!?!". I connected to it via cockpit, all great.

Then I remembered the default GUI for alma is Gnome, hence removed Plasma group, added the default Server with GUI group. Taadaaa ....... gnome working like a charm, no errors to "sudo dnf upgrade". Will leave gui for a while, but remove it as will not be needed in theory.

But that got me thinking ..... Alma does not really like plasma, huh?!?!? Because Plasma invites tinkering ....... via gui! Gnome doesn't!!! :D lol

BTW, Alma is great! Coming from a 'buntu server, I feel at home using Alma. I mean, RPM distros are my cup of tea for all my machines, I do not understand why i hesitated in going directly for Alma as my first real "production" server. Well, my second alma server, because my first I use to test stuff, so probably will break it soon enough!

Hey. Like the title says, I was wondering if topgrade is recommended for updating the system or not really?

Have little experience with kubuntu (installed it this morning), but so far, so good.

Simply amazing!

I started the day with 'hell, let me try something I found on reddit'. Installed it on a old nuc, media pc. At first glance, nothing out of ordinary: plasma, few apps installed (i like that). Updated, installed fastfetch .... hmm, kernel is quite new. Nice, let's try some more apps, everything went smooth as butter. Faster than mint, kubuntu, opensuse, zorin, fedora, kinoite and few others (my nuc is the test bed for new distros).

'Hmm, wonder how it runs on my laptop?' At 12 o'clock was running on my laptop! Or better, it flies on my laptop. At this point, I was asking myself, wth is wrong with this one, as I found very few references online about it.

Started installing all my apps on the laptop, everything was done in under 2 hours. Faster than apt, dnf, flatpaks when apps can't be found in solus repo.

Simply amazing! I've got Serenity!

Gonna use this as the daily driver for .... well, it's not leaving my laptop anytime soon!

This is the distro that should be recommended when switching from win, by far the smoothest experience in all linux distros I've experienced in the past 3 weeks (that's when my linux journey begun).