@noflcl After three reboots of the same problem, I switched to Windows and tried opening LinuxMint.

When I went back to Fedora, the problem had mysteriously solved itself.

Still very concerning, though... Just wasted two hours on this, and I have no idea what the issue was or how it was fixed.

@noflcl Huh. Maybe booting into Linux Mint reset some settings or something. Because Fedora lost my system config for mouse sensitivity... Weird.

@LouisIngenthron
Very strange

@argv_minus_one I mean, maybe, but I literally can't remember the last time something broke in the OS layer of Windows for me. Sure, a program hangs sometimes, but it almost never affects the OS, which still dutifully responds to interrupts.

Linux has a lot of positives over Windows, but stability definitely isn't one of them.

@LouisIngenthron

Is your GPU NVIDIA, by any chance?

@argv_minus_one Yep. Has to be, too, because of requirements for certain peripherals.

@LouisIngenthron

Then your blame is misplaced. NVIDIA, in its boundless malice, has gone to great lengths to prevent the development of good, stable Linux drivers for its products. This causes all manner of stability issues.

@argv_minus_one Hm. I hear that a lot, but it seems strange to me that NVIDIA has the third largest market cap in the world, largely driven by selling cards for use in crypto mining and AI, which predominantly use Linux, and square that with the claim that they're trying to screw Linux with their drivers. That's just bad business. There's got to be more to the story.

@LouisIngenthron

I would think it's bad business too, but they evidently disagree. They've been screwing Linux users, including me personally, for two decades now. You hear it a lot for a very good reason.

@LouisIngenthron @argv_minus_one
I am not sure, but I think drivers can handle calculations for crypto etc very well, while being broken for display (linux servers usually work without GUI).

@Szwendacz @argv_minus_one Plausible.