Terminal.

All jokes aside, its personal preference. If you’re working in a dense file tree, you probably need the info that details view gives you. Icon view really only matter for media.

You want a semi or rolling release distro. Fedora is semi-rolling, would be the most user-friendly I think. Anything Arch-based but more user-friendly, like CachyOS, would be good as well. Tim leweed is rarely recommended unless you need like bleeding edge, which it doesn’t sound like you really want.

Get resource usage under utilization and nvidia-smi output and post here.

Also, are you sure it’s input lag, or is the entire machine pausing and hiccuping?

Right at the top:

FOKS is like Keybase, but fully open-source and federated, with SSO and YubiKey support.

Sure seems like they just released one last month: https://knowledgebase.frame.work/bios-and-drivers-downloads-rJ3PaCexh

Well this is one of the worst takes I’ve seen around here 🤣

1. Not sure where you’re getting this from. The value comes from buying a known Linux compatible platform at a similar price point to any other manufacturer. The Desktop is the first AMD Ryzen Max+ platform on the market in that form factor, and those chips are well above the performance of any other Ryzen chip on the market. Fair price as well.

2. This comment is disingenuous at best, and just wrong overall. They were slow on their firmware updates during their initial pilot shipments while the platform was still in validation, so they were making delayed changes to firmware in light of that until they cleared that hurdle. Been regular updates since. Also, firmware rarely decides the overall security of a hardware platforms unless known vulnerable portions are found and then intentionally NOT fixed, which is not what happened with all of that.

3. Absolutely wrong. The price point is the same as any other machine in the same segment, which is not the general consumer crap Lenovo kicks out, but the slightly elevated professional segment. If you’re not looking for that in a new device, guess what, they have refurbs at have the price. Both conditionals right there completely invalidate whatever point you’re trying to make, especially when you’re buying for the stability on Linux as OP mentioned, and it’s a crapshoot at best with any other manufacturer in their cheaper segments of machines.

I don’t know if you’re shilling for some specific point here, but you need to get informed.

Describe more about your use-case. Tuxedo is just alright, but a bit overpriced IMO.

The he absolute best performance and value laptop or desktop on the market is going to be a Framework, for instance, but maybe that’s not exactly what you want.

Config wouldn’t BLOCK it from being detected, that’s the problem.

Have you checked for a BIOS update recently?

1. To launch apps: Super key, type in name of app, hit enter. That’s it.

2. Window Management: good writeup from that team: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/ Quick cheat sheet for relevant keys there as well: https://thedroidguy.com/gnome-desktop-keyboard-shortcuts-for-efficient-workflow-and-navigation-1263904

Then I would try the above and make sure you don’t have a mixer confused somewhere.

Okay, so this is one of Asus’s consumer models that fits in the “Windowstop” category, meaning a lot of the hardware is going to be windows-only for various reasons.

It’s got an ALC272 which IS supported, but that doesn’t mean the microphone will be, especially if it’s on the USB bus for whatever reason.

Couple questions:

1. Do other microphones work, just not internal?
2. Does your volume control work as expected
3. Does the webcam work, and does the internal microphone work only when the webcam is engaged?
4. What do apps like Discord or Zoom detect as available for your inputs?

As a test, install pavucontrol and qasmixer. Open pavucontrol, and check ALL the input settings (there are many combos). If nothing there shows activity, launch qasmixer, select the ‘hw’ view on the right, then try selecting different mixers and see if one finally clicks.

If any of these are successful, your mic is detected, and your mixer settings are messed up so it’s not being enabled as an input sink.

If none of these work, you’re going to have to dig restart, then run sudo dmesg and grep through looking for information regarding audio devices, or similar errors to see if it can’t detect it.

From the product specs, it looks like it might have Harmon Kardon speakers, which may also tie into the microphone, and that’s going to be problematic if it’s a USB device for a number of reasons I won’t dive into. Overall, this model just seems to be problematic from digging around. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/160d3wj/asus_creator_laptop_q530v_constant_problems/

What’s the exact model number of this Asus laptop?

Whoops, you are correct. Sorry about that!

If you’re literally unfamiliar with the technical process of this, I suggest you go back and read a guide, so every step very literally, and then come back if you have a problem.

It’s very obvious that’s you’re skipping steps or ignoring something.

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As long as it has Internet access you can do whatever you want like any other normal machine.

I’m guessing it’s similar to this: https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-doesnt-start-when-external-monitors-are-plugged-in/17350

You’re probably on a laptop and have multiple GPUs enabled at the same time. If not, you’re defining Nvidia drivers with something trying to be smart about when to enable the actual outputs or not.

You can either make sure to have the display turned on, or make it super clear to the drivers to always enable a display regardless of whether it detects a display.

It still starts the KDE session, but it’s probably on another term output. Hit ALT+F1 and see if it shows, but it depends on the distro, so it could F1, F6, F7…etc

Well in that log, it actually DOES use the right GPU. There are some other errors you have going on in there though, like you seem to have AV1 encoding selected somewhere in your settings, but this RTX 3070 doesn’t support AV1 encoding (on the fly) AFAIK.

Try launching the app this same, setting all your hardware encoding stuff back to defaults, then see if you can get it working. In these logs it IS picking up the second pipewire display, so that’s good, but launch this way again without AV1 enabled then upload the logs again and let’s see what’s happening.

Missed your logs link, but there’s some hints in there.

You have both an Intel GPU and Nvidia GPU in that laptop, and it’s selecting your Intel while trying to use Nvidia compatible settings. So you need to try and force everything to either work on Nvidia, or everything to work on Intel. It can’t do both without splitting the settings per GPU, which I don’t think is an option in OBS.