Minisforum makes good stuff, but only buy their Refurbished items if you don’t need something specific.

Lots of people buy Beelink minipcs for n100 boxes, but looks like the prices are all jacked right now. [This should only be about $150 maybe.](https://www.newegg.com/beelink-barebone-systems-mini-pc-intel-n95/p/2SW-0012-001Z2?Source=socialshare

I wouldn’t use an old MacMini for much because they aren’t actually power efficient, but any n100 for Ryzen5 minipic with Kodi on it would work just fine for you want. There are plenty of altern6to Kodi, but it’s so simple, it’s hard to pass up.

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Can you run nvidia-smi and see what the output is?

The only reference people have for these kind of judgements is polling by browser.

You’re talking about users of a specific OS who would spend time to not make that known. They would also opt-out if any reporting about there machine specifics for polls, should they be asked.

I can guarantee real world usage is always higher than these polls suggest. I don’t know about 10%, but they are higher in actuality.

Post dmesg output again

sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-driver

Look up the model of the laptop, and try to find a “display voltage regulator”. Sometimes they sell them a setnfor cheap.

This isn’t a software or OS issue though.

Disable Secure Boot in your BIOS. It should load after that, but if not, just reinstall the driver package.

The issue is in the lines with the keyword “taint” because the driver isn’t signed and cooperating with your Secure Boot setup.

I see no output pasted, but you probably need to run something like sudo dmesg | grep -i nvidia to find the issue.

My guess is that the kernel modules build failed, and the Nouveau driver can’t load.

Boo hoo

Just uninstall theatesy kernel packages and it will be gone from the Grub boot menu, or you can also manually set the default Grub version to boot very easily (guides and docs everywhere online).

Try using your CMOS’ EFI boot manager and see if it sees both. If so, just skip Grub and use that.

If you’re saying you started on Gnome, then dropped in another DE, you need to switch to an agnostic network manager if you were relying on Gnome’s Desktop Network manager implementation probably.

If you’re saying you booted a clean Fedora Cosmic LiveUSB and couldn’t get WiFi working, you need to look at logs or run through some cli debugging to see what’s up. Probably just Cosmic issues.

Edit: forgot about nmtui. You can use this to debug issues from the clinpretty simply if the desktop tools are failing.

Fedora 44’s DTB implementation actually makes the Snapdragon SoCs work pretty well. I’d give it a look.

Valve also has the Frame running on Snapdragon’s, so that means full SoC performance and GPU implementation. How whatever they got working trickles down to the community remains to be seen.

AMD is launching their ARM chips this year.

Nvidia keeps pushing theirs back because the first gen was horrible, and the 2nd is already sounding problematic.

Sounds like this is an older laptop perhaps? Probably the voltage regulator for the display panel not coming back on cleanly.

Try this:

1. Trigger the issue
2. Once the issue starts, turn your brightness ALL the way up and see if it stops
3. If it does, then lower it back down to whatever level seems appropriate

See if that does anything.

No, they cannot, and have not, and I gave you examples and reasons as to why they have not.

You seem to think that arguing on best intentions or whatever is going to wish all those reasons away, and it won’t. You also tried to say I was saying the idea is pointless or whatever, which isn’t even true. Arguing in the blindly optimistic fashion you are while ignoring facts and reason is pointless though.

Literally NEVER said any of that 🤣🤣

My first comment was even that these systems are great if they can work where they are.

WITAF is up with people in the comments lately. Wow.

Yes, so how in ANY of my comments am I being inaccurate or wrong about anything, because you’ve got the wrong grioe, exactly?

My God.