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First, before this rather large infodump, I want to thank anyone that takes the time to read through this to offer any information or advice on trying to resolve this issue.

Here’s the issue I’ve been struggling with.

I keep getting this error on my server:

INFO: task txg_sync:1615 blocked for more than 241 seconds.
Tainted: P           O      5.15.0-112-generic #122-Ubuntu

Background:

I’ve got a homeserver running Ubuntu server 22.04 (no DE) with an Intel Core i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 32GB RAM, and two ZFS pools. The OS is installed on its own 128GB SSD, and the two ZFS pools consist of a 128GB SSD in its own pool for the server’s cache, and a 4x8TB HDD RAIDZ1 pool that is my main data/server storage (much more detailed system info below).

I have a bunch of services running in Docker containers, and overall everything is great, except for when that error rears up.

The error seems random, but occurs most reliably, but not consistently, when I’m trying to write larger media files to the RAIDZ1 pool. I am aware that this an IOPS issue, but so far I have not been able to diagnose it.

Back in February, I was carrying some boxes down to the basement where the server rack is, and I accidentally kicked a stool into the server which knocked the shit out of it (it’s a tower pc that I built back in 2016 or 2017 and repurposed in 2020ish to server use). When I turned on the monitor it was in total panic mode. The screen was gibberish colors and flickering madness.

I had to force shutdown with the power button. I waited a good couple of minutes, and on reboot, everything seemed fine. Until I noticed the new txg_sync error a week or so later when I went down to add some media to the server.

After a lot of searching and reading that didn’t turn up pertinent info, I ran across a comment that said this error is almost always hardware related. Like a loose connection or a failing disk or something. With me having knocked the shit out of the server, I realized I should have opened the case up and checked it all out. I shut it down, opened it up, and found a loose connector on the motherboard. I reseated it, checked everything else (though not thoroughly enough, which we’ll get to), and rebooted hoping I had found the problem.

It seemed fine for a bit, but no luck. The error returned.

More searching with no luck, and then about a month ago, a friend he suggested I check all the SATA connectors by disconnecting each one and reconnecting to insure a good, solid connection. I had previously checked if they were seated when I opened the case, but didn’t disconnect and reconnect. While doing this, I found a SATA cable with a busted clip and thought again I had found the problem. I replaced the cable, and went about a week before the error resurfaced.

It continues to occur, as I mentioned inconsistently. Most reliably, but not always, when writing data to the RAIDZ1 pool.

I have run a thorough memtest, and there were no errors or issue with the RAM, and as far as I can tell, there are no errors/failures with the HDDs.

Below is a lot of system info, and an example of what I find in dmesg for the error.

System Info

OS & Kernel

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Linux [redacted user] 5.15.0-113-generic #123-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 10 08:16:17 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

CPU

Architecture:           x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):       32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:        39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:           Little Endian
CPU(s):                 8
  On-line CPU(s) list:  0-7
Vendor ID:              GenuineIntel
  Model name:           Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
    CPU family:         6
    Model:              94
    Thread(s) per core: 2
    Core(s) per socket: 4
    Socket(s):          1
    Stepping:           3
    CPU max MHz:        4200.0000
    CPU min MHz:        800.0000
    BogoMIPS:           7999.96
    Flags:              fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dno wprefetch cpuid_fault invpcid_single pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid mpx rdseed adx smap clflushopt intel_pt xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_notify hwp_act_window hwp_epp md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities
Caches (sum of all):    
  L1d: 128 KiB (4 instances)
  L1i: 128 KiB (4 instances)
  L2:  1 MiB (4 instances)
  L3:  8 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:                   
  NUMA node(s):      1
  NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7
Vulnerabilities:        
  Gather data sampling: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Itlb multihit:        KVM: Mitigation: VMX unsupported
  L1tf:                 Mitigation; PTE Inversion
  Mds:                  Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Meltdown:             Mitigation; PTI
  Mmio stale data:      Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Retbleed:             Mitigation; IBRS
  Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
  Spec store bypass:    Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Spectre v1:           Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Spectre v2:           Mitigation; IBRS; IBPB conditional; STIBP conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not
                         affected; BHI Not affected
  Srbds:                Mitigation; Microcode
  Tsx async abort:      Mitigation; TSX disabled

RAM

Memory Device
        Array Handle: 0x004A
        Error Information Handle: Not Provided
        Total Width: 64 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Size: 8 GB
        Form Factor: DIMM
        Set: None
        Locator: DIMM_A2
        Bank Locator: BANK 1
        Type: DDR4
        Type Detail: Synchronous
        Speed: 2133 MT/s
        Manufacturer: Corsair
        Serial Number: 00000000
        Asset Tag: 9876543210
        Part Number: CMK16GX4M2A2400C16  
        Rank: 2
        Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
        Minimum Voltage: Unknown
        Maximum Voltage: Unknown
        Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

Handle 0x004D, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
        Array Handle: 0x004A
        Error Information Handle: Not Provided
        Total Width: 64 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Size: 8 GB
        Form Factor: DIMM
        Set: None
        Locator: DIMM_B1
        Bank Locator: BANK 2
        Type: DDR4
        Type Detail: Synchronous
        Speed: 2133 MT/s
        Manufacturer: Corsair
        Serial Number: 00000000
        Asset Tag: 9876543210
        Part Number: CMK16GX4M2A2400C16  
        Rank: 1
        Configured Memory Speed: 2133 MT/s
        Minimum Voltage: Unknown
        Maximum Voltage: Unknown
        Configured Voltage: 1.2 V

Handle 0x004E, DMI type 17, 40 bytes
Memory Device
        Array Handle: 0x004A
        Error Information Handle: Not Provided
        Total Width: 64 bits
        Data Width: 64 bits
        Size: 8 GB
        Form Factor: DIMM
        Set: None
        Locator: DIMM_B2
        Bank Locator: BANK 3
        Type: DDR4
        Type Detail: Synchronous
        Speed: 2133 MT/s
        Manufacturer: Corsair
        Serial Number: 00000000
        Asset

Disks

NAME                      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                       7:0    0  63.9M  1 loop /snap/core20/2264
loop1                       7:1    0  63.9M  1 loop /snap/core20/2318
loop2                       7:2    0    87M  1 loop /snap/lxd/27948
loop3                       7:3    0    87M  1 loop /snap/lxd/28373
loop4                       7:4    0  38.7M  1 loop /snap/snapd/21465
loop5                       7:5    0  38.8M  1 loop /snap/snapd/21759
sda                         8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk 
├─sda1                      8:1    0     1M  0 part 
├─sda2                      8:2    0     2G  0 part /boot
└─sda3                      8:3    0 221.6G  0 part 
  └─ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 253:0    0   100G  0 lvm  /
sdb                         8:16   0 223.6G  0 disk 
├─sdb1                      8:17   0 223.6G  0 part 
└─sdb9                      8:25   0     8M  0 part 
sdc                         8:32   0   7.3T  0 disk 
├─sdc1                      8:33   0   7.3T  0 part 
└─sdc9                      8:41   0     8M  0 part 
sdd                         8:48   0   7.3T  0 disk 
├─sdd1                      8:49   0   7.3T  0 part 
└─sdd9                      8:57   0     8M  0 part 
sde                         8:64   0   7.3T  0 disk 
├─sde1                      8:65   0   7.3T  0 part 
└─sde9                      8:73   0     8M  0 part 
sdf                         8:80   0   7.3T  0 disk 
├─sdf1                      8:81   0   7.3T  0 part 
└─sdf9                      8:89   0     8M  0 part 

ZFS

version

zfs-2.1.5-1ubuntu6~22.04.4
zfs-kmod-2.1.5-1ubuntu6~22.04.3

list

NAME        SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP    HEALTH  ALTROOT
srvrcache   222G  13.8G   208G        -         -    17%     6%  1.00x    ONLINE  -
srvrpool   29.1T  17.5T  11.6T        -         -     1%    60%  1.00x    ONLINE  -

status

pool: srvrcache
 state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
        The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
        the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
       the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:00:35 with 0 errors on Sun Jun  9 00:24:36 2024
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        srvrcache   ONLINE       0     0     0
          sdb       ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

 pool: srvrpool
 state: ONLINE
status: Some supported and requested features are not enabled on the pool.
        The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable.
action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done,
        the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support
        the features. See zpool-features(7) for details.
  scan: scrub repaired 0B in 11:41:27 with 0 errors on Sun Jun  9 12:05:31 2024
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        srvrpool    ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            sdd     ONLINE       0     0     0
            sde     ONLINE       0     0     0
            sdf     ONLINE       0     0     0
            sdc     ONLINE       0     0     0

errors: No known data errors

iostat

capacity     operations     bandwidth 
pool        alloc   free   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
srvrcache   13.8G   208G      0     22  48.0K   291K
  sdb       13.8G   208G      0     22  48.0K   291K
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
srvrpool    17.5T  11.6T     33     59  2.14M  1.03M
  raidz1-0  17.5T  11.6T     33     59  2.14M  1.03M
    sdd         -      -      8     15   554K   275K
    sde         -      -      7     13   536K   252K
    sdf         -      -      8     15   562K   275K
    sdc         -      -      8     14   539K   252K
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

PCI

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller (x16) (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 31)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 31)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Q170/Q150/B150/H170/H110/Z170/CM236 Chipset SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 31)
00:1b.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #17 (rev f1)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Z170 Chipset LPC/eSPI Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family Power Management Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family HD Audio Controller (rev 31)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation 100 Series/C230 Series Chipset Family SMBus (rev 31)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V (rev 31)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller

dmesg

[321540.060243] INFO: task txg_sync:1615 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[321540.060330]       Tainted: P           O      5.15.0-112-generic #122-Ubuntu
[321540.060408] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[321540.060495] task:txg_sync        state:D stack:    0 pid: 1615 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
[321540.060498] Call Trace:
[321540.060500]  <TASK>
[321540.060502]  __schedule+0x24e/0x590
[321540.060509]  schedule+0x69/0x110
[321540.060512]  schedule_timeout+0x87/0x140
[321540.060515]  ? zio_issue_async+0x12/0x20 [zfs]
[321540.060653]  ? __bpf_trace_tick_stop+0x20/0x20
[321540.060657]  io_schedule_timeout+0x51/0x80
[321540.060661]  __cv_timedwait_common+0x12c/0x170 [spl]
[321540.060669]  ? wait_woken+0x70/0x70
[321540.060672]  __cv_timedwait_io+0x19/0x20 [spl]
[321540.060679]  zio_wait+0x116/0x220 [zfs]
[321540.060799]  dsl_pool_sync+0xb6/0x400 [zfs]
[321540.060890]  ? __mod_timer+0x214/0x400
[321540.060894]  spa_sync_iterate_to_convergence+0xe0/0x1f0 [zfs]
[321540.060997]  spa_sync+0x2dc/0x5b0 [zfs]
[321540.061098]  txg_sync_thread+0x266/0x2f0 [zfs]
[321540.061206]  ? txg_dispatch_callbacks+0x100/0x100 [zfs]
[321540.061314]  thread_generic_wrapper+0x61/0x80 [spl]
[321540.061324]  ? __thread_exit+0x20/0x20 [spl]
[321540.061332]  kthread+0x127/0x150
[321540.061336]  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
[321540.061339]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[321540.061344]  </TASK>

Thank you again to anyone who takes the time to offer any info or advice on resolving this.

Exiting news for the lady bird browser. https://ladybird.org/

i recently switched to connman and i need a tui. so i searched for some and got:

• connman-ncurses
• cmtui

but i believe both are orphaned. so it there any tui for connman out there?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/6013803

(vou postar em inglês porque vou fazer crosspost, mas no @Linux Brasil pode responder em português)

After recently Firefox update I noticed that audios are cluncky. I mean, if my Firefox isn't playing any sound, if I start a video or any sound start playing (whatsapp notification, for example) it doesn't work at first. For example in videos, I have to pause and unpause the video to the audio start playing properly.

Is anyone experiencing something similar?

Is there anything I can do to solve this issue?

I tried another browsers and another sounds in OS and it doesn't happen, what makes me think it's not an OS bug, but a Firefox bug.

I have been using a company computer running Ubuntu 22.04. There are frequent and unexplained problems, like segmentation faults, stack errors, files disappearing, computer freezing or not booting, or turning off immediately after I turn it on. I don't know what to do. The IT staff came to my office to check the computer and said "it was all good." I am not allowed to boot from a USB stick or enter BIOS or open the case. I ran a command line memory check several times with no errors. There is an NVIDIA card, but it's running X.org and usually headless. I mostly set up tasks via SSH.

What would you do?

Hello! My disk space was out of space left, so I decided to remove some snapper snapshot. snapper list listed over 360 snapshots. I removed them, and freed 50Gb of space. One of these hasn't been deleted successfully:

Cannot delete snapshot 166 since it is the next to be mounted snapshot.

it's description is writable copy of #156. How can I remove it? should I do it using btrfs subvolume delete?

here's the output of sudo btrfs subvolume list -t /:

ID      gen     top level       path
--     
***
    ---------       ----
256     178487  5               timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@
257     341688  5               @home
258     341680  5               @cache
259     341688  5               @log
260     26      256             timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/portables
261     27      256             timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/machines
708     341688  5               @
710     341680  708             .snapshots
2781    178991  5               timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2024-05-07_12-20-43/@
2968    326034  710             .snapshots/166/snapshot
2969    341679  710             .snapshots/167/snapshot

all those timeshift subvolumes are there because before snapper, I used to use timeshift. I tried to remove them:

sudo btrfs subvolume delete timeshift-btrfs/snapshots/2023-09-18_18-25-33/@/var/lib/machines    
ERROR: Could not statfs: No such file or directory

If I understand correctly, it means that I should give an actual "system" path instead of the path in the table, but I don't understand which path

thanks in advance to everyone!

I'm working on my transition plan away from Windows and testing out various things in VMs as I do so, and one big hurdle is making sure the VPN client my work requires can connect. Bazzite is my target distro (primarily gaming, work less frequently), though other more traditionally structured ones like Pop!_OS and Garuda are possibilities.

I'm currently trying and failing to get the VPN client working in a distrobox (throws an error during connection saying PPP isn't installed or supported by the kernel). However, I can successfully get the VPN connected if I overlay the client and its dependencies via rpm-ostree install, but I read somewhere that Bazzite's philosophy is to use rpm-ostree as sparingly as possible for installing software to preserve as much containerization as possible.

Since I can get it working outside of a container, am I overthinking it? Should I just accept that this might be one of the "sparing" cases? Is Bazzite perhaps a poor fit for my use case? I've been trying to make sense of this guide, but I'm having trouble understanding how to apply it to my situation, since I'm not that familiar with Docker or Podman.

According to this issue, it looks like there are no plans, understandably, for making a version/fork of nsxiv but with native Wayland support.

Any recommendations for a simple image viewer in Hyprland?

Yesterday, I made this post about getting my old Xbox 360 controller working wirelessly on Manjaro. The comments suggested using xpadneo- more specifically xpadneo-dkms. xpadneo-dkms only works Xbox One and Series X controllers. Doing a little more research, I came across xboxdrv. I installed the AUR package but gave me an error message saying that I was missing two dependencies: scons and glib2-devel. scons installed with but glib2-devel has been a bit tricky. If I used yay -S glib2-devel it returns this error: -> No AUR package found for glib2-devel there is nothing to do. If I use sudo pacman -S glib2-devel it returns this error: error: target not found: glib2-devel. I could go on but we would be here all day. Any help? Thanks in advance.

I currently have an AMD video card (6700 XT) and Wayland support is excellent. Also, multi-monitor support in Wayland works perfectly.

So what's your experience with Nvidia's 555 driver in Wayland? Those using it in conjunction with KDE 6.1, what's your experience with multi-monitor VRR? I ask about VRR because I heard that multi-monitor VRR in Wayland is still problematic.

This is for my own curiosity if an Nvidia video card could be considered as an upgrade option.

Hi everyone,

I am very new to Linux/GNU amd I have moved from windows to Fedora workstation 40 with GNOME a few moths ago.

I have been blown away how easy everything have been to migrate but there is one thing I can't migrate which is proton drive as they don't support Linux 😡.

I decided to follow some advice online and set up a windows VM in GNOME boxes and install proton Drive then I can copy/mount my files leaving the VM to sync my proton drive.

I have insralles spice on both the Host and the Guest OS and can copy filed to the VM but I can't for the life of me work out how to get from the VM.

I am probably being stupif but please be gentle I have only been using Linux for 2 months.

Thanks in advance.

I have a desktop and a steam deck. I would like to setup some old games I have on disc on the desktop. Then compress them and decompress on my Steam Deck without doing the full install again. I understand that with wine/proton prefixes they should be installed to a "fake c:/ windows hierarchy" can I just compress that and copy to a different Linux machine? Does it save which proton version was used? If I use something like Lutris or bottles can I import into them?

Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEGXL yet? Are we Rust yet?

I’ve gathered a meta-tracker for the adoption state of futuristic technologies.

Hello Linux community. How are you guys?

I am writing to ask if anyone has ever heard of TUXEDO Computer, since I want to buy one of their laptops.

To be specific I am interested in buying the InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9 - AMD at 1350€.

Following the specs:

1. Display:

   • 15.3-inch IPS panel
   • 2560 x 1600 resolution (16:10 aspect ratio)
   • 240 Hz refresh rate
   • Matte / non-glare finish
   • ~500 nits brightness
   • ~100% sRGB color gamut

2. Processor:

   • AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
   • 8 Cores / 16 Threads
   • Max 5.1 GHz
   • 16 MB L3-Cache
   • 54 W TDP

3. Graphics:

   • AMD Radeon 780M (integrated)
   • 12 GPU Cores
   • Max clock speed: 2.7 GHz

4. Memory:

   • Up to 96 GB DDR5-5600 MHz
   • 2 SO-DIMM slots
   • Dual Channel support

5. Storage:

   • 2x M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slots (PCIe 4.0 x4)

6. Battery:

   • 99 Wh Lithium polymer battery
   • Up to 10 hours battery life for office work

7. Ports:

   • 1x USB-A 2.0
   • 2x USB-A 3.2 Gen1
   • 1x USB-C 3.2 Gen2 (with DisplayPort 1.4 and Power Delivery)
   • 1x USB4 (40 Gbps, DisplayPort 1.4, Power Delivery)
   • 1x HDMI 2.1
   • 1x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet
   • 1x SD card reader (SD/SDHC/SDXC)
   • 1x 3.5mm audio jack

8. Networking:

   • Wi-Fi 6E (Intel AX210)
   • Bluetooth 5.3
   • 1 Gigabit Ethernet

9. Webcam:

   • 2.0 Megapixel (1920 x 1080)
   • With privacy shutter

10. Audio:

    • 2x integrated speakers
    • Integrated microphone

11. Keyboard:

    • White backlit
    • With number pad

12. Touchpad:

    • Glass precision clickpad (121 x 73 mm)

13. Build:

    • Aluminum chassis (lid, base, and bottom)

14. Dimensions:

    • Width: 34.2 cm
    • Depth: 23.8 cm
    • Height: 2 cm

15. Weight:

    • 1.6 kg (including battery)

16. Operating System:

    • Choice of Linux distributions (including TUXEDO OS)

17. Additional Features:

    • Kensington Lock slot
    • TPM 2.0 (via fTPM)
    • 180° display opening angle

18. Power Supply:

    • 100 W USB-C Power Delivery

Do you guys think it is ok for a 1350€ laptop? Here is the link to the store page if you interested having a look.

Thank you for reading.

I was going through my old stuff and found an Xbox 360 controller and the wireless PC receiver that was once a requirement before the bluetooth-enabled controllers. I remember using it when I was a Windows user but I'm completely stuck on how to use it under Manjaro. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

I'm 43 and not really starting using Linux. I've dabbled with distros on and off over the years, but I never made the full switch because work always had some program or policy that just wouldn't play nice with Linux. With all the crappy Microsoft decisions, bloatware, and ads I decided to try and use Linux exclusively on a personal device, and I'm absolutely loving it!

I've been working with Ubuntu as my main distro, and I've also been playing around with distros on a Raspberry Pi. To really challenge myself, I installed Linux on an old Surface Pro 3, and guess what? It just works! I was pleasantly surprised by how smooth the setup was and how well it performs.

I missing any key steps or tips to make the experience even better on a Surface? Any insights would be greatly appreciated. I was planning to buy a new tablet that runs Linux but this is working better than expected. I'm really enjoying the flexibility and control Linux offers and want to keep this momentum going.

I have read up and tried plenty, just looking for some perspectives out there specific to your tablet experiences.

EDIT Thank you for all the suggestions and insights! I'm going to continue using the Ubuntu build for the next few months. Still lots more to learn, but I'm excited to see how this goes. I have everything setup I need to function as a Linux only tablet experience. no more dependency on Windoze.

EDIT 2 I have been using Ubuntu for a few weeks and it generally works. The touch has been great but I do notice it is a bit buggy at times and the virtual keyboard leaves a lot to be desired. I did read this article today that talks about their experience more on a Surface Pro 4. https://www.binwang.me/2024-07-12-A-Review-of-Linux-on-Surface-Pro-4.html

When I refer to Linux, I am referring to a computer with the kernel and other software that makes up a Personal Computer.

I like to think that Linux is great, and always will be, a Personal Computer. Windows, I will always remember it being the best thing for business’s as Microsoft pushes licenses and such business related features.

I switched to Linux in 2020, Ubuntu, and slowly learned my ways around, and understanding how everything works, but most people don’t have to now, it’s so simple to get started.

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