Fedora (Gnome or KDE versions) is going to be the most straightforward without a bunch of “extras” to be aware of if you’re looking for a desktop. Immutable distros have extra hoops, and anything Ubuntu based has Snap, which you should avoid like the plague.

Why?

You’re being very melodramatic about the whole thing…

It’s a computer. We want to use it under our terms. End of story.

Good find, but it’s not a kernel issue in this case. The device is recognized as “something”, and outputs audio correctly, you just need to find out where it’s getting it’s audio from, and assign a control channel through Pipewire to control the sink volume. Should be pretty easy, but will require some digging and a quick bit of learning.

If it’s stuck at max, then Pipewire isn’t controlling it. Try alsamixer as a different test, or maybe qasmixer. You’ll need to select the hardware id for the device to try and change it.

You might want to dig around keyword searches for your specific model and “Pipewire” to see if others have a config to sort it if the above works.

You need a KVM with an EDID emulator. HDMI switcher just swaps output ports, while a KVM+EDID emulates device status.

File a bug or issue with the project. I assume the desktop version does this by default because it’s not expected to have offline detection functionality.

Edit: https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/10468

👍 have fun with that

You apparently don’t deal with actual end-users, so let me inform you…they absolutely fucking care.

You seem to keep skipping the part where SNAP IS 10X SLOWER.

Get lost with your lazy argument.

You’re not getting it…

A 125MB package like Firefox has up to 5 versions by default kept under the Snap system. Do this 10x across different packages, and suddenly you’re missing a lot of storage you can’t account for.

Second, SNAP IS JUST SLOW. People don’t like when it takes 5-10 seconds to launch a very simple app. Let’s not even get into the performance being absolutely horrendous when you need direct access to memory or GPU. It’s not what people want.

Last, your problem with Nvidia drivers lies with Nvidia themselves. I run a cluster of a thousand instances which never hiccup on the Nvidia server+CUDA drivers.

Desktop is a shit show, and that’s their fault. Don’t blame your misunderstanding of these two things to be the fault of the distro.

It’s relevant for a few reasons with regard to new users:

1. Snap is SLOW
2. Snap takes up a massive amount of space

Switching somebody with 256GB of storage to Ubuntu and pointing them to the Gonna software store to install whatever they want is just asking for confusion and problems.

What happened to all my disk space?

Why does it take 8 seconds for a browser to start?

These are new users who expect things to operate as they’ve known them to operate coming from Windows or MacOS. Ubuntu is just problematic to that point of view.

I’ve switched hundreds of desktop users in the past few years, and the above expectations and experience is what made me switch to Fedora.

Ubuntu is problematic at current.

HID device detection and systemd units is much simpler. No need for the rest of this.

I think the bigger hurdle here is that you need to do some legwork and research, else you would not be here asking this question 😉

It’s possible but then I’d ask why? What’s the purpose of booting a different DE based on the controller type?

THPS works just great though.

Fedora (Gnome or KDE version) is what I recommend to people looking for the stock experience and a large community. I generally point people away from anything Ubuntu because of the Snap fiasco.

Weird manifesto

There have been issues with the default power profiles interface and the AMD P-state manager for many KDE 6 versions depending on the kernel versions (I think 6.9+). THEN the power-profiles-daemon project was archived without notice, so I believe that’s why they disabled/removed the quick menu for it for awhile, but since I believed they moved to the upower managed project and put it back in. Been a bit since I’ve used KDE, so unsure of the eventually fixed it.

If it’s running an AMD APU, you need to make sure that your power profile is set to “Performance” and not something like “Power Saver”. I know KDE has a lot of issues with power profile management since they nixed the quick settings awhile ago, but I think in your settings there is a place to choose your preferred settings. Limiting the power on those APUs significantly hampers it’s ability to play games.

If you’re going to be gaming, you may want to switch to a distro that does semi or rolling releases. Latest Kubuntu is still on kernel 6.8, and there are MASSIVE performance improvements between that and 6.15 which something like Fedora is running by default. That, and many updated versions of the Mesa drivers.

In the players. VLC has a setting in preferences, and mpv has a flag to disable on run.

Try disabling hardware acceleration.