PSA: Linux hits 3% on Steam (Actual usage over 5% of all computers)

[coldmeat]

I'm curious.. black screen when exactly?

Do you go afk 5 mins and come back to a black screen?

Fedora started black screening after the grub menu. It was after it updated the kernel I suppose because there was another entry, but even restoring the old one led to a black screen. Personally I didn't do anything but install a couple programs, then restart. I'm all AMD, nomodeset didn't help and I get no errors. I just couldn't get back into the desktop.

Mint black screened after I let it go to screensaver and my tv timed out. It's been working fine since then, just minor issues mostly with the panel.

I haven't given up though, I'm going to keep it this time.

 

[Indus]

Fedora started black screening after the grub menu. It was after it updated the kernel I suppose because there was another entry, but even restoring the old one led to a black screen. Personally I didn't do anything but install a couple programs, then restart. I'm all AMD, nomodeset didn't help and I get no errors. I just couldn't get back into the desktop.

Mint black screened after I let it go to screensaver and my tv timed out. It's been working fine since then, just minor issues mostly with the panel.

I haven't given up though, I'm going to keep it this time.

Ok you're not doing anything wrong.. just mess with the power management settings.. like don't turn off monitor after 5 minutes or go to sleep mode.. some of them default to that.

Each distro is different.

If you ever end up trying another distro.. I really suggest trying LMDE a try especially if you don't have the latest video card or cpu (it's linux mint, works like linux mint but it's based on debian and it'll save you a bunch of headaches that ubuntu causes like black screens, glitches, programs not working.. DEBIAN JUST WORKS!)

The only downside to debian is they work so hard on stability and programs not crashing.. sometimes updates for the newest hardware will take a few months to roll.. but unless you have the newest CPU/ GPU it's a non issue. Mostly just an issue for early adopters.

Like the wife's LMDE kernel is 6.1 and it's getting updated to 6.12 soon but on Ultramarine I'm already on 6.15.9.. arch is on 6.16 but Debian will extensively test it for stability first. Updating kernels might sound nice but it can also break systems as the new kernels need new drivers which may or may not be working properly.

 

[Zepp]

Fedora started black screening after the grub menu. It was after it updated the kernel I suppose because there was another entry, but even restoring the old one led to a black screen. Personally I didn't do anything but install a couple programs, then restart. I'm all AMD, nomodeset didn't help and I get no errors. I just couldn't get back into the desktop.

Mint black screened after I let it go to screensaver and my tv timed out. It's been working fine since then, just minor issues mostly with the panel.

I haven't given up though, I'm going to keep it this time.

early this year I was on Fedora GNOME and booted into black screen after an update. The fedora forums were saying it was a GNOME bug not fedora. at the time I got spooked and wiped it and tried a few others like Zorin and Openmandriva, but eventually came back to Fedora(Ultramarine) and have been trouble free for about 6 months now and loving it.

 

[biostud]

Just tried switching over the last 2 days, but have been having issues with black screens on both Fedora and Mint, which is exactly the same problem I had with Linux 10 years ago.

Would love to finally ditch Windows.

What monitor do you have. Mine doesn't natively support 240Hz in Linux, so at some point I will try a *fix* to make it work. My screen is completely garbled if I run 240Hz.

 

[biostud]

OneDrive has ballsed up my file system too many times!
Also I find that if I'm using multiple computers it's constantly trying to sync files that I don't want synced (like game saves).
If it just worked like a network drive I'd be ok with it but it tries to take over way too much.
I have a M365 account (wife has to run MS office stuff for her work) but I don't use any of it as it's a PITA!

It has worked fine for me, but yeah it has backed up a lot of folders I don't need backup of. So no it is very simple just to setup a folder for photos and documents.

 

[Ken g6]

Mint black screened after I let it go to screensaver and my tv timed out. It's been working fine since then, just minor issues mostly with the panel.

I technically have a problem like that. When on an extension HDMI cable my monitor won't wake up unless I push a button on it. I thought it was just the cable - it works with a shorter cable - but maybe it's Mint too? Anyway, you could turn off blanking in settings -> Power Manager -> Display tab.

 

[WelshBloke]

It has worked fine for me, but yeah it has backed up a lot of folders I don't need backup of. So no it is very simple just to setup a folder for photos and documents.

I don't want to have to tell my OS not to do stuff that it shouldn't be doing in the first place!

 

[biostud]

I don't want to have to tell my OS not to do stuff that it shouldn't be doing in the first place!

Yeah, it was all those things which started me getting interested in something else.