Been running fedora for quite a while now, works very well but yeah, it flipping crashes. Cold freeze, and nothing to do but to keep the power down and pray that it won’t happen again. But it does, I can’t stand it anymore.
I just want my computer not to crash.
Been thinking of moving to Debian, old software is whatever cause I mostly rely on flatpaks and compilers which are installed as third party anyway.
Is this gonna crash too? Does anyone have any experience with any distro that never freezes? What about opensuse leap?
I have had the same issue with constant random freezes (on Arch Linux). For me, adding
amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10
to the kernel commandline has completely solved the issue. Other threads in this forum recommend setting amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x400 instead - I haven’t tried that.
Hey Tommaso,
you saying “to keep the power down” sounds like you think it’s a heat problem? What temps does your laptop run at and how do you keep the power down?
First thought for me was that you should try out an older, LTS kernel. Maybe you did already?
The laptop runs super quiet, temps are fine, everything is well, it’s just a kernel issues + usual tiny bugs here and there which start to bother me. Before I move to an LTS I wanted to collect some opinions
If you want the most hands-off and maintenance free experience, pick one of the images from https://universal-blue.org/. I’ve been running Bluefin for over a year, and it’s been absolutely amazing!
+1 to this. If you got the AMD variant, this is a must, pretty much.
I’ve been crash-free* using Debian Trixie, since before it was released and relabeled Debian Stable, maybe I’ll switch back to the pre-release testing label at the end of the month. (I use KDE Plasma, too.) I don’t use the amdgpu.dcdebugmask setting.
*: you can search for the threads where a combination of USB power-saving and Samba caching caused a hard lockup and needed a full reinstall, but that only happened twice.
That’s awesome to hear! I won’t under samba so I should be good. I am so jaded, really just want to use this computer without having to save everything all the time.
You can also combine the two: amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x410
Apparently 0x10 disables one feature that can be buggy and 0x400 disables a similar but more modern feature that can also be buggy.
They will usually slightly increase the power used by the laptop.
I think you should be able to go straight to disabling both with 0x410 to test if this works for you, and can leave it like that without comparing results with 0x10 and 0x400, but I haven’t confirmed this.
Ok Debian 13 works great… though an old problem is back, which is fail to wake up when opening the lid, and the battery life is not great compared to when I had fedora with kernel 6.17. I wonder if I should install back ports kernel, has anyone tried that and did that solve the issue of fail to wake up?
It happened after updating to fedora 43 - latest kernel and latest bios - just a couple of times when I was using it a bit more than normal (compiling CPP + chrome + something else that I forgot). Not the end of the world but also a big no no for me, I got a beefy computer for the sake of squeezing it so I can’t accept it ever crashes under CPU stress.