"Add Printer" Freezes Computer
I'm not sure if this is a problem with Bazzite, Fedora, or KDE, but this has been boggling my mind for a while.
Whenever I try to add a printer through the GUI in KDE, the computer completely freezes up. No response whatsoever. Like a button of death. I have to cold reboot to fix it. I've tried messing around on the keyboard to see if I can get a response but nothing. I've yet to encounter an issue like this anywhere else on Bazzite.
Not sure if anyone can offer guidance or at the very least a way to see a lot to figure out what on earth is going on. As if printers aren't stressful enough.
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As an update: I tried installing the printer via its IP address in the terminal using cups. It worked. So I am guessing this might be more of a KDE issue than Bazzite as I was able to print successfully through this but find it strange that trying to add a printer would break the comptuer like this.
Very likely an upstream KDE issue and not specific to Bazzite. If you run the live USB of Fedora's KDE spin see if you have the same issue there.