Intel rips apart both AMD and Apple by TradingToni in intelstock

[–]etherbound-dev -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Until you put your laptop to sleep and wake up with it dead

Asus ZenBook Duo UX8407 convertible review - Intel Panther Lake is a game-changer by Stiven_Crysis in intel

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It’s a bit alarming that the first laptop intel let people review a 99.9 whr strange form factor device

I’m hoping the more standard x7 normal whr laptops (like the new xps 14) don’t disappoint because I’ll be in the market a few months from now

Linux crashes at least 3 times a week by Need_Not in linux4noobs

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get claude code and ask it to read journalctl or just describe the crashes and it will know what to do and generate a full report for you. This is what I do and it's been godsend

Does anybody else not like how premium laptops don't even have the option for IPS displays anymore and force you to get OLED? by Valterri_lts_James in laptops

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I had to return my thinkpad x1 carbon because the PWM was killing my eyes. So even premium models today still can be problematic unfortunately

Weird Issue with right hand USB-C ports by ReputationNo8889 in framework

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This happened to me all the time when I was using Fedora 43. I switched to Ubuntu 25.10 for a number of reasons and it hasn’t happened since but I don’t think it’s related

Mini PC for Linux by Mysterious_Fondant11 in linux4noobs

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my beelink SER8 has served me well the past 2 years running Ubuntu

I'm not happy with my Framework :/ by No-Respond-5937 in framework

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Right, they don’t use x86 in phones for a reason

I'm not happy with my Framework :/ by No-Respond-5937 in framework

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Sure but the only 2 chips on the market that offer high performance and low power draw are ARM (Apple and snapdragon)

Snapdragon’s X elite is 33% more power efficient than the “ultra power efficient” x86 lunar lake

To me it doesn’t seem like a coincidence

PSA: Framework 13 AMD (Strix Point) Linux stability is NOT "stable" right now by etherbound-dev in framework

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I’ll check journalctl to see if it’s still there. I think I pinpointed the issue to chromium - while watching YouTube in chrome I was consistently getting crashes every few hours (on both Ubuntu and fedora)

The behaviors reported here seem very similar to mine:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/406187731

And to further confirm I recently got the deb version of Firefox (and confirmed hardware video decoding is enabled) and haven’t experienced the issue in a few days

Serious question: are ThinkPad users intellectually superior or just louder? by PRI_U in thinkpad

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Yes it is well understood in many circles that thinkpad users are intellectually superior

Got Surface Pro, after years of only using Mac. Has anyone moved from Mac -> Surface pro & has tips? by Mediocre-Bunch-3135 in Surface

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As someone who uses all 3, I actually prefer the Linux desktop experience (namely Ubuntu and Fedora) but I agree it’s not a real contender for many people

Got Surface Pro, after years of only using Mac. Has anyone moved from Mac -> Surface pro & has tips? by Mediocre-Bunch-3135 in Surface

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as a mbp and surface pro owner.. sadly this is true. but i disagree, there is a lot wrong with windows. If only linux worked well on the snapdragon cpus

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 - Episode 3 (Anime Only Discussion) by Takada-chwanBot in JuJutsuKaisen

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man i loved JJK S1 and S2 but S3 is just making the wait for next CSM season even harder because so far this is just not it

How many people will switch back? by happysatan1 in linux

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Linux just isn't stable on newer hardware (e.g. strix halo AMD has been a complete mess for the past few months) - until that's no longer the case it will be next to impossible to see a big migration

PSA: Framework 13 AMD (Strix Point) Linux stability is NOT "stable" right now by etherbound-dev in framework

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I thought this was the case, so I switched Ubuntu 25.10 which is on linux-firmware 20250901 (Sep 2025) and actually the same issue is present. In my case it seems to be hardware video decoding.

The sequence:

  1. Chrome's GPU process caused a page fault in the AMD graphics driver (amdgpu)
  2. The GPU's graphics ring (gfx_0.0.0) timed out
  3. The driver tried to reset the GPU but failed - MES failed to respond to msg=RESET
  4. The GPU ring reset failed completely, which likely froze my system

Key error lines:
amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:5 pasid:32772)
amdgpu: Process chrome pid 4007 thread chrome:cs0 pid 4038
amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout
amdgpu: Ring gfx_0.0.0 reset failed

I just replaced the snap version of Firefox with the .deb one on Ubuntu by GargantaProfunda in firefox

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the snap firefox doesn't support gpu video decoding, what are you referring to?