I just got this laptop (Asus TUF A15 2021) today and it surprised me that everything works just fine out of the box on Vanilla Arch, except NVIDIA gpu I had to install it manually on battery power that’s why I enable powersaving mode. As for games performance it’s basically the same as windows no more no less.

  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
    6·
    7 天前

    Doesn’t work for kernels newer than 6.13 if I recall correctly. Tried to install it last month. I’m running Garuda Arch, and kernel 6.15, even having the repository active completely borks pacman.

    Edit: it’s an active project, so keep an eye on it. Or install CatchyOS as it’s now standard there.

    Edit²: I’m going to have another stab at it, possibly fucked something up? Idk, I was following the instructions, and everything was fine until I added the Repos to pacman.

    • NaiP@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 天前

      Follow up that you can also just install the cachy-os kernel which has it baked in.

      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
        1·
        7 天前

        Tried that. Also didn’t work. 🤷

        As I replied above, I’ll give it another shot. Maybe I fucked something up? Everything seemed to be working fine until I added the Repos to pacman, then it all went tits up.

        • NaiP@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 天前

          Be thorough, what messages did you get?

          Also their tool i stalls the repos only (you install the kernel right after)

          • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
            2·
            7 天前

            Don’t remember the exact messages.

            Was following these instructions off the official page.

            Got to where the orange line is on the screenshot below, and it started throwing up a load of network errors. Again can’t remember the exact messages, it’s been a month, but it was saying that the Repos were unreachable. And pacman then stopped working entirely until I removed the Repos.

            Edit: I’ll run through it again tonight and come back with actual answers

            • NaiP@lemmy.world
              2·
              7 天前

              Apologies. Was under the impression you installed the cachy os kernel. Keep in mins you can join the discord and ask there!

              • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
                2·
                7 天前

                No, so Garuda has a kernel switcher GUI. And I had tried switching to the latest CachyOS kernel, that didn’t seem to do anything. AsusCTL still threw the “missing Asus drivers” error. So I went through the process of actually following the instructions and doing it all myself, and hit the roadblock I mentioned above.

    • Maiq@lemy.lol
      2·
      7 天前

      Running arch as well and have it installed. Works just fine with linux-g14 kernel and headers. I use the zen kernel mostly so i don’t have the armory settings most of the time because I use zen but everything else works.

      Just did a pacman -Q | grep linux and my linux-g14 is on 6.15.2 and zen is on 6.15.3.

      Did you add the keys?

      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
        2·
        7 天前

        Hm. Maybe I’ll take another shot. I was following the instructions, got as far as installing the keys, adding the Repos didn’t work, it broke pacman.