Would be nice if there’s some automatic solution, but after running into this issue I always run a couple different btrfs balance after deleting larger files for good measure. Took a while to figure out why Linux said there wasn’t any space left when df reported several GB available on the root partition
I wonder how much would break, and how much time it would take to update everything, if all shells decided to implement a breaking change to prevent these kind of scenarios. E.g. make “set -u” default or some other solution
I meant I use the KDE colour management settings to set the calibrated icc profiles for each display. I guess it uses colord under the hood, since restarting the service reloads the profiles. Or did you mean some other kind of display profile?
Colour management/correction is done by the computer without involving the monitor afaik.
But I have a suspicion what might be causing your issue… Computers can indeed control monitor settings such as brightness and power on/off through something which I believe is called DDC/CI (in case you wanna search for more information). When I bought a new Dell monitor I got an issue where it would randomly change brightness every now and then. I have my Linux PC hooked up to 2 monitors, and my work Windows laptop also connected to one of them. So while I was working, my own PC would think that I was idle and dimmed the screens. However, unlike my old monitors, the Dell would accept DDC/CI commands on all connections, not only the selected one. I just turned off monitor dimming in KDE control panel power settings as a workaround, and let it turn the monitor signal off immediately on inactivity.
While researching the issue, I also came across multiple posts by people having problems with Dell monitors randomly changing brightness, with only one computer connected, so it could also be that… Dell has a reset procedure which they claim should fix it, but it’s different for pretty much every model, so you’ll have to find the one for yours, in case you have a Dell monitor. Some people wrote that it didn’t work and they had to RMA the monitors.
Xorg, but it has worked without issues on Fedora for over a year, and it also worked on Xubuntu before that :/
I know nvidia-settings messes up the colors if I open its GUI, but I haven’t found any other program which does so. I do use nvidia-settings from a script when power limiting + overclocking my GPU, but I have verified that it doesn’t mess with the colours, and I’ve also had it for almost a year so it’s not new.
And just brainstorming here, I think I’ve had problems in the past where I had multiple high resolution + high framerate monitors, though it might’ve been on my work computer where I had a docking station… What other monitors are you using? Have you tried lower framerates? My last graphics card was a GTX1080 which is similar to yours, but I don’t remember if that one had any peculiarities with VR. Back then I dual booted Windows for VR since it didn’t work well enough on Linux
Any possibility to verify that the headset’s power adapter is working? E.g. multimeter
I saw someone suggesting a headset firmware reset for this issue, but others are saying they had to RMA their headset when they got solid red lights on it :(
When you say you got a new cable, you mean an original tether cable, which is connected directly to the graphics card without adapters or extension cables?
Also, are you using Nvidia’s closed source drivers or Nouveau?
Use whatever you like :) I tried VSCode at work for a few months but it felt quite lacking when working with larger C++ projects. Switched to CLion instead and it felt like it was faster, understood C++ much better, and made it easier to work in multiple files simultaneously. But I could see myseslf using VSCode for some small hobby project, especially if it’s C#
Fortunately I dislike Windows so much that I’m willing to spend a few weekends helping someone switch to Linux, especially if it’s my wife :D I’m also realizing I might’ve skipped a step in the conversation since the person I replied to was talking about Ubuntu, and it’s possible that at least some of those problems were specific to Xfce. In my mind I reasoned “I used to think that Xubuntu would be a solid recommendation for a beginner since I had a good experience with it in the past”, and it sounded like others were saying similar things about Ubuntu. Since I discovered that Xubuntu now had a lot of non-trivial issues I had to deal with, I was kind of thinking that it might be the same for vanilla Ubuntu… Or not, it might still be easy to use and a plug-n-play experience for beginners :)