this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
226 points (98.3% liked)

Linux

55874 readers
785 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I just got this laptop (Asus TUF A15 2021) today and it surprised me that everything works just fine out of the box on Vanilla Arch, except NVIDIA gpu I had to install it manually on battery power that's why I enable powersaving mode. As for games performance it's basically the same as windows no more no less.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Doesn't work for kernels newer than 6.13 if I recall correctly. Tried to install it last month. I'm running Garuda Arch, and kernel 6.15, even having the repository active completely borks pacman.

Edit: it's an active project, so keep an eye on it. Or install CatchyOS as it's now standard there.

Edit²: I'm going to have another stab at it, possibly fucked something up? Idk, I was following the instructions, and everything was fine until I added the Repos to pacman.

[–] NaiP@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Follow up that you can also just install the cachy-os kernel which has it baked in.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tried that. Also didn't work. 🤷

As I replied above, I'll give it another shot. Maybe I fucked something up? Everything seemed to be working fine until I added the Repos to pacman, then it all went tits up.

[–] NaiP@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be thorough, what messages did you get?

Also their tool i stalls the repos only (you install the kernel right after)

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Don't remember the exact messages.

Was following these instructions off the official page.

Got to where the orange line is on the screenshot below, and it started throwing up a load of network errors. Again can't remember the exact messages, it's been a month, but it was saying that the Repos were unreachable. And pacman then stopped working entirely until I removed the Repos.

Edit: I'll run through it again tonight and come back with actual answers

[–] NaiP@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Apologies. Was under the impression you installed the cachy os kernel. Keep in mins you can join the discord and ask there!

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

No, so Garuda has a kernel switcher GUI. And I had tried switching to the latest CachyOS kernel, that didn't seem to do anything. AsusCTL still threw the "missing Asus drivers" error. So I went through the process of actually following the instructions and doing it all myself, and hit the roadblock I mentioned above.

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Running arch as well and have it installed. Works just fine with linux-g14 kernel and headers. I use the zen kernel mostly so i don't have the armory settings most of the time because I use zen but everything else works.

Just did a pacman -Q | grep linux and my linux-g14 is on 6.15.2 and zen is on 6.15.3.

Did you add the keys?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Hm. Maybe I'll take another shot. I was following the instructions, got as far as installing the keys, adding the Repos didn't work, it broke pacman.