Hello to everyone. I’ve been testing Cooker with latest dnf packages for almost a day now, with SonicDE and xLibre all combined.
Issues I have currently experienced so far include Plasmashell crashing the desktop wallpaper and bottom panel when keyboard input language is changed, audio output device changed, or sound volume is altered. I assume it crashes because SonicDE guys forgot or couldn’t include some of the packages from KDE’s Plasma, that SonicDE anticipates among packages related to the system overlay, like sound-volume changing one.
My solution is that I run optional “kstart5 plasmashell” command inside an .sh script in the background, that checks every 2 second if plasmashell is OK or not. And if not - relaunches it. This way instability is only slightly inconvenient.
Other than than, Chromium browsers had mystical GPU issues on ROG ALLY X (I run bare metal). I launched MS Edge via --no-gpu flag once, closed it, and then started it from plasmashell panel as usual. It proceeded to work, I have not rebooted yet to test if issue persists.
Standard Cooker’s issue with SDDM freshly after installation is KWalletd and KSecretd conflicting with xLibre and D-Bus. I just silently disable them from starting via TTY terminal, and reboot. No issues with them since, at least not in journalctl.
Other than that - ROG ALLY X is my main work machine, although I mostly use VS Code and MS Edge and more or less OS agnostic - OpenMandriva with xLibre was stable enough for the week I actively used it. I hope SonicDE team will release fixes for missing packages soon as well.
