Experiencing issues/app crashes. Just switched from Nvidia GPU to AMD GPU. Vid attached of issue.
I've been using Bazzite since April (first time using Linux). Ive had many driver issues, so I finally sswitched to an AMD gpu.
I was using an image of Bazzite from July (gave me the least amount of issues for some reason on my RTX 3070, for example my start up screen to enter my login would not show up on my 4K TV likelike it used to in May, it would only work on my monitor.)
I rpm-ostree reset , then rebased to the most current imagine (bazzite-stable 41.20241104 is what shows up). I even updated twice after rebasing just to make sure it received everything up to that point. I used X11 because it gave me the least problems, and Wayland would give me this problem in the video without fail on my 3070.
But I am also experiencing these KDE crashes on my 6700XT, to the point where I can't even access anything besides whatever app I managed to open, and would have to control alt delete to log off and reset this process. It's replicable 100% of the time on my system. Is there something I may have missed? I would be willing to start from a fresh ISO if I absolutely have to, but I am holding that as a last resort. Any help/suggestions appreciated!
Tl;dr- Having Plasma entirely crash and machine nearly unusable before and after switching from Nvidia GPU to AMD GPU. Video attached (had to shorten vid for file size lim. terminal was 2nd-3rd app opened).
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I think the issue might from upgrading from Fedora 39 to Fedora 41 in one go. Please try open dolphin, press CTRL+H (this will show hidden folders) and rename the .cache folder (the system will remake it immediately). This solves tons of weird issues.
If that fails, I would recommend making a new Linux user and see if you get the crashes on the new user. This will tell you if you have a system wide config error or something specifically wrong in your current user's config settings.
Tried the cache rename, helped stability a little but not too much. Did prevent the full black screen like in the vid tho! As for ththe new user, iit's working flawlesdly by the looks of it! (Excuse typos, mt keyboard is actinf up on here)
So then we know that your issue is a bad KDE/plasma setting from Fedora 39 to Fedora 41.
I know that these folders are used for your KDE settings in you user, you could try backup and remove those folders/files for the broken user and see if that solves the problem
~/.config/kde.org
~/.config/KDE
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc
Note that you might need to re-setup your screens again if you have multiple monitors
I also have no idea if that will work as I can't reproduce your issue
Was July 7th release Fedora 40 ? that was the image I had
Removed the folders and its still the same as before sadly:/
Not sure if this relates in any way. If a fix can't be found I think I'll just end up taking the time to make the new user my main one haha. Not sure if I can access files from my original user on the new user
Might have been Bazzite 40 but Plasma 5 rather than Plasma 6
You can access your old user stuff with your new user if you open the old the folder as administrator. However you'll probably need to change the ownership of the stuff that you copy over to your new user.
Just don't copy over all the settings else you'll end up reproducing the issue with the new user
Gotcha, thanks for the help!