Some of this might apply to AMD GPUs as well. As of 2025, I recommend switching to a Wayland based Desktop if it’s feasible, since on there no additional configuration is required for Mixed Refresh Rates and Variable Refresh Rate outside of the compositors configuration.

Only difference in info I can see is that display name ends with :0 instead of :0.0. Depending on your DE, you might fiddle with display settings there. Are you running X natively and not XWayland?

Already used these drivers on previous installation, was 525 iirc (Linux Mint), but also went from 530 to 535 on Arch and it persisted. Thing is problem started the exact day I also flashed BIOS firmware so it’s likely that it could come from there, but trying lts kernel now

It was from a GitHub Gist but idk which exactly it was, there are multiple. Keep in mind some files need to have copy-on-write deactivated (swapfile, VirtualBox disk images). The Arch Wiki mentions when copy-on-write should be turned off for a file

What do you mean with “birds part”? Learned from YouTube Videos, Arch Wiki, and experimenting on bare metal and in Virtualbox. Hardest part for me when installing Arch 1st time was partitioning and bootloaders

You might install an older kernel version from /var/cache/pacman/pkg and then regenerate the initramfs. If not using NVIDIA, it’s very easy to have multiple kernels installed (e. g. linux, linux-lts) to have another option if one kernel causes trouble.

I’d generally recommend having the lts or mainline kernel additionally if you use custom kernels, like zen or self compiled

In the Gentoo wiki it is also mentioned that “While it is true that Btrfs is still considered experimental and is growing in stability, the time when Btrfs will become the default filesystem for Linux systems is getting closer.”. I don’t know how many distros out there use Btrfs by default (never distrohopped), but it seems to become much more widely adopted than zfs.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Btrfs#Features

I wrote this more or less for fun; it is slightly more extensive than the installation guide geared for a more advanced setup. The wiki is mentioned in the article as well and is encouraged to be used too

The Bootloader itself cannot be encrypted afaik, but the Kernel and initrd can reside on a LUKS Volume (GRUB_USE_CRYPTODISK). But, in order to prevent having to input your passphrase twice, you need to use a keyfile, and I have no experience with that, so I have gone another route. I don’t think that a kernel and initrd necessarily need to be encrypted

Do you have GRUB installed into the ESPs fallback path? (esp/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI) I haven’t tried grub-install --removable yet, but maybe stuff got confused.

Had the problem only on one machine. Do you have, by chance, a MSI motherboard? Can’t myself think of other causes and having the kernel and initrd on btrfs instead of ext4 can’t be the problem?

Did grub-install /dev/sdX, x86_64-efi and ESP get detected automatically and no errors were reported. Also created grub config. Will try in a few days again. Maybe I really overlooked something or had “bad luck”. Worked fine in a VM.

Could the BIOS firmware have a part in this or is the BIOS firmware irrelevant to the bootloaders functionality?

Try pacman -Syu or just yay, if it doesn’t work after that get new mirrors from here: https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/, and paste them into /var/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Comment out/in mirrors as needed. If you did the latter, do a full system upgrade (yay) again just in case

Yeah flatpak packages bring their own runtime packages so they’re more independent of the underlying system. I installed the steam flatpak now and it works just fine

When I upgraded lib32-nvidia-utils was already at 535, and the problem itself is still there for me. The probable cause is libcef invalid opcodes (dmesg)

traps: steamwebhelper[1959] trap invalid opcode ip:7f6575bdb794 sp:7fffa9a5d930 error:0 in libcef.so[7f65732ef000+7770000]

Yeah, and in the Open Source nature of the fediverse applications alternate frontends will also be able to thrive. (though the main fediverse app frontends come less cluttered / cleaner out of the box)

Then one must either resort to the official youtube frontend (which is still bearable as long as content blockers work normally, I could not imagine getting spammed with ads) or using other ways of watching like PeerTube. Circumvention should always be possible in a way though as long as Google doesn’t employ DRM on YouTube videos.

I’ve been going through teddit and libreddit for a while now, but i don’t know if they will survive. The next option would be old.reddit.

I need to wrap my head around the searching. For example, I don’t know if a Community “Geometry Dash” exists somewhere in the Lemmy fediverse or if I just cannot find it. On the other hand, I could create one? But if so, where? Would it fit onto lemmy.world? If I understood right, I can create communities on lemmy.world only anyways.

Google might start messing up the alternate frontend Invidious too (the exception The video returned by YouTube isn't the requested one. (WEB client) (VideoNotAvailableException) started appearing, which is still fixable though), which is a nice option to view yt without the clutter, especially when not logged in.

In case you know the media player mpv, you can pass yt links directly into it and view just the video through it. You need to have yt-dlp installed for this. Then you can type

$ mpv 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=....'

This is more for Linux though, idk how it is for Windows

I doubt Reddit will really die though. When Musk got Twitter, many fleed to Mastodon, but over time, many returned back to Twitter (?). Digg did fail though, but I don’t know when that happened, probably wasn’t really in the internet at that time yet.

The hardest thing for me was finding the “right” instance to register in, and that is probably the challenge for most people. Going back to the “popular topics” thing, when bigger communities about a certain thing, or entire instances about that thing exist, people might just register there.

My current guess is that you either pick a general-purpose instance or a specific instance of your interest, if it exists.