The only reference people have for these kind of judgements is polling by browser.

You’re talking about users of a specific OS who would spend time to not make that known. They would also opt-out if any reporting about there machine specifics for polls, should they be asked.

I can guarantee real world usage is always higher than these polls suggest. I don’t know about 10%, but they are higher in actuality.

Look up the model of the laptop, and try to find a “display voltage regulator”. Sometimes they sell them a setnfor cheap.

This isn’t a software or OS issue though.

Try using your CMOS’ EFI boot manager and see if it sees both. If so, just skip Grub and use that.

If you’re saying you started on Gnome, then dropped in another DE, you need to switch to an agnostic network manager if you were relying on Gnome’s Desktop Network manager implementation probably.

If you’re saying you booted a clean Fedora Cosmic LiveUSB and couldn’t get WiFi working, you need to look at logs or run through some cli debugging to see what’s up. Probably just Cosmic issues.

Edit: forgot about nmtui. You can use this to debug issues from the clinpretty simply if the desktop tools are failing.

Sounds like this is an older laptop perhaps? Probably the voltage regulator for the display panel not coming back on cleanly.

Try this:

1. Trigger the issue
2. Once the issue starts, turn your brightness ALL the way up and see if it stops
3. If it does, then lower it back down to whatever level seems appropriate

See if that does anything.

Well poking around, it seems that specific plugin was only meant for Gimp 2.10, and you must be on 3.0+ by now, so I would consider it unusable.

I don’t think you need to directly edit the script if that’s what you mean. You want to edit the values in the plug-in menu so it’s not out of bounds. Those get passed to the script, which then executes.

You probably need the direct error instead of this raised exception. Start Gimp from a terminal, trigger the error, and see if the terminal error is showing exactly what the script’s error is.

It’s having an issue with a value. This explains it so I don’t need to write a novel: https://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6756

Some of the default values in Gimp Scripts are bad, and it’s kind of a crapshoot.

It’s a week known fact that Al Yankovic is a well known activist against open source everything. He started a ranting campaign against it in the early 80’s.

Weird Al Yankovic is the patron saint of everything open source. He also eats Corn Dogs like a fucking monster.

Chrome is dead

Nah, it works fine just with ARM builds, but that’s not the point of the SoC. GPU acceleration, security features, and offloading co-processors all need drivers to work properly.

Ubuntu 25+ has specific optimizations for these chips, but last I heard performance was pretty weak due to Qualcomm refusing to open their drivers and optimizations.

Fedora 44 also has some specific optimizations for these chips.

You don’t need to format the drive if you’re writing from an image.

Install Balena Etcher (also available in Gnome Software), select the ISO you want to write from, and the target USB drive, write it, then it’s usable.

All of those explanations, but you’re not even saying WHY it’s an alternative, or to WHAT

Yeah, see my edit. This is a Pipewire session thing. Each user needs a unique Pipewire session to do audio. Video has nothing to do with Pipewire.

Check the groups the working user is included in, and make sure the non-working user is in those same groups. See if anything there.

Edit: Oh, you know what. I think this is probably Pipewire not starting for multiple users when multiple are logged in. On the non-working user, you need to start a unique Pipewire session for that user, because the other working user’s session can’t be shared by default.

Alpine is very specific in its use-case. Unless you know the exact package set you need to work with, it’s not suitable for general purpose use. It doesn’t even include glibc, for example 🤣 It’s meant to BARE as possible with a small footprint.

I’m not sure your rationale for picking Alipine for this use-case, but you might want to consider a more fleshed out distro for a NAS. Alpine is the BARE MINIMUM of an OS, meaning a lot of helpers that exist on other distros are not there for things like setting your power settings and link negotiations in certain cases. Sure the NIC driver is there, but all the nice tweaks for that specific module that exist in, say, Fedora Server aren’t going to be there, leading to this issue.

I’d honestly just throw FreeNAS, TrueNAS, or Unraid on this box and be done with it. They’ll have all the power settings and tweaks meant for a NAS in place, and then you won’t need to spend time hunting stuff like this down.

It could be related to power saving settings and/or your power profile.

Some Q’s:

1. Is your computer awake and in use when this happens?
2. Are any of your USB devices disconnecting at the same time?
3. I see your connection is 100Full and not 1Gb, is that because whatever it’s patched to is only 10/100?

I saw you tried to set power for the interface itself, but if this is a power issue, you probably want to disable power savings on your PCIe interfaces. Easiest way to do this is probably installing powertop, and navigating over to the ‘tunables’ menu, and disabling power management for those interfaces, just to test and see if it fixes it.

Your hardware is really the defining factor at the lower levels, but then whether you have encrypted partitions is the barrier at the OS level.

Understanding where your problem lies needs to be known, so more symptoms or logs would be helpful.