My knowledge here is limited so I apologise if I’m not being helpful, but at least in case of Arch there’s a special kernel flag (amdgpu.performancemask iirc) to allow OC of your graphics card, are you passing one in your setup?

Have you tried using CoreCtrl instead?

OnlyOffice exists on Flatpak too

It’s on the “extra” repo

Recent Python 3.13 update broke the ProtonVPN client

Foobar unfortunately is closed source, which OP has mentioned as a requirement.

But agreed, it’s so good I use it on Linux through wine, despite many alternatives

Which variant of it, if I may?

I really hope Proton 10 will have some sort of Wayland support, even if it would be hidden behind an environmental variable

I mean there is an overlap between Linux users and those who play card games

Decked out? Cranked?

KDE Plasma Wayland, I’m using it for gaming mainly and occasionally for VR.

Pros:

• supports DRM leasing mandatory for wired VR headsets
• supports tearing (also in windowed apps but requires an additional setting) which reduces input latency in games
• usually all the new fancy features, ex. HDR, appear quickly
• decent support for fractional scaling (handy on laptops)

Cons:

• you might encounter bugs. While Plasma 6 has been a much better experience as opposed to older versions of it, there are still some bugs here and there appearing between the updates. As of this writing thought I can’t recall any bugs on my system.

KDE Plasma, yes that happens when electron apps run in native Wayland mode

Except it also has said issue. Additionally it causes my VPN connection to drop when watching streams, and does noise cancellation despite that option being disabled.

It’s possible your screens electrically disconnect themselves when going to sleep, which makes Plasma refresh its desktop layout, causing flickering.

My Asus screen does this when powered off but not in standby. That used to crash Plasma Wayland back in 5.24 lol

You can download an APK from the F-Droid website

Iirc there’s a setting for Wireplumber (in case you’re using PipeWire) to disable that behaviour when a BT mic is being picked up

Thanks, it’s a heavily modified VRChat avatar called Rindo, in case you’re curious :3 : https://booth.pm/en/items/3443188

At first I was tipping my toes in Ubuntu but kept coming back to Windows as I kept running into stability issues. Googling my issues very frequently kept sending me to the Arch wiki, and I thought “well if they have so much covered, why not use this distro instead”. That and 196 subreddit (rule) made me try Arch, and my experience was noticeably better. Barely any crashes and improving Proton compatibility made me use it more and more. I kept a windows install for VR and anti-cheat enabled games until late 2023.

During my transition period (both in Linux and gender lol) between 2021 and now, I kept getting comments “why are you making your life harder with Linux, just use Windows where everything works”. Well, nowadays tables have turned and now I get to say “weird it works for me on Linux”. Except VR, it’s still a mixed experience.

I think reusing server/client naming for USB connectivity instead of master/slave would fit it

This was a satire