I’ve been using linux mint cinnamon for a few months but a few days ago I decided to try endeavourOS. Since the switch I experienced a few crashes where the screen went black and then login page showed up and after getting back my opened apps were all closed. Today I also noticed that my apps pinned to the task manager/bar also got unpinned but I’m not sure at which point that happened. I heard that linux has problems with nvidia GPUs so maybe it has something to do with it?
Huh, pretty weird one then. What card model and driver version? Does nvidia-settings work? Is 3D performance about where it should?
RTX 2060, will check drivers after getting home.
Few years back I had to fiddle with the kwin rendering backend and select egl for nvidia.
ELI5? What does that mean and how did you do it?
I think this was the setting https://www.maketecheasier.com/a-look-at-kde-desktop-effects/
This is what I got from: “inxi -Fza”
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 550.78 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550.xx+ status: current (as of 2024-04; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: *REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED* Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.0 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: N/A unloaded: modesetting failed: nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x2160 s-dpi: 80 s-size: 813x686mm (32.01x27.01") s-diag: 1064mm (41.88") Monitor-1: DP-3 pos: top res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81 size: 798x334mm (31.42x13.15") diag: 865mm (34.06") modes: N/A Monitor-2: HDMI-0 pos: primary,bottom res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 81 size: 798x334mm (31.42x13.15") diag: 865mm (34.06") modes: N/A API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland,device-1 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.78 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 memory: 5.86 GiB API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 layers: 1 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 driver: nvidia v: 550.78 device-ID: *REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED* surfaces: xcb,xlib