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
I have had issues like this with “deep sleep” on some monitors. Sometimes manufacturers release monitor firmware updates to fix, sometimes they don’t…good luck!
Edit: iirc it is a DisplayPort related issue and shouldn’t happen if you’re using hdmi instead, could be one option for you to pursue.
I’ll look into the HDMI route, but as far as I’m aware it won’t support the ultrawide at 240Hz so I either give up what I paid for hardware capability or switch back to windows, unfortunately.
only certain monitors seem to do this, it worked fine on a dell monitor but on a msi oled monitor it doesnt. i noticed that mouse input from the special mouse port on my mobo also reliably wakes the monitor if i turn it on first and then click repeatedly. i just told my computer to save session on shutdown and had input turn on my computer in bios settings to avoid finicky things.
Same thing on my desktop, but not my laptop. Thought it had to do with the AMD video card, but I guess this is a more common issue.
Same issue on ubuntu…
For me this is usually solved by opening another tty session (e.g ctrl+alt+f3 ) and going back to F2 or simply restarting the login manager service.
Might be a different issue thought.
This is exactly what I’ve been doing but it’s not ideal. I did finally give up and switch to Windows after it made me late for a meeting this morning. So close but Linux still doesn’t seem viable as a real daily-driver.
I’ve been daily driving linux since around 2002, but not for gaming initially. I switched to it fully about 5-6 years ago and havent’t looked back.
Compared to the trash Windows is? I’d rather “suffer” through 2 sessions switching really.
Eh I think it comes down to convenience. My ADHD ass isn’t able to be at my computer 5 minutes early to deal with session switching just to wake my own computer from sleep so while Windows has tons of other issues and I hate Microslop with a burning passion, I’m still ultimately tied to it since I realistically simply can’t use Linux and “survive”. If the maintainers can focus fixing these usability issues rather than bitching about Rust adoption in the kernel, we could be having a different conversation.
I have the same problem in Bazzite and the only workaround I’ve found is to unplug and replug the HDMI cable. Not ideal.
Funnily enough, I had this issue consistently using ubuntu based distros, and bazzite/fedora fixed it. It only started when i switched from an nvidia card to AMD on my ryzen system runnung PopOS, persisted with Mint, but is yet to reoccure on either my Intel/Nvidia or AMD systems. Very strange issue, I haven’t seen any definitive conlusion online
Dang okay yeah I’m really learning this is a deep issue with Linux that seems to be nondescript across many vendors/display techs. I’ve tried turning off VRR, dropped refresh from 240Hz to 60Hz, and nothing has worked consistently.
This is a very common bug with Fedora (at least since Fedora 41), in my experience. I could not fix it on my system, so i just turned off the sleep mode.
As far as I understand the discussions on the usual-suspect forums this can be caused by a variety of reasons and it is very hard (for me at least) to diagnose the system in a way that gives the right answer.
Yeah that’s what I had gone with the problem is I also have a Kanali TryX CPU cooler and it will burn-in since the vendor doesn’t make a Linux version of their controller software. I essentially have to sleep the system or run a windows VM all the time to be able to sleep that when I’m not around. Only other option I can think of is to just shut all that stuff off but then what’s the point?
