System freezing after 5 minutes of usage. (Sometimes even after 20 seconds)

Hey, so im just trying to switch to linux as my daily driver but im about to give up, installl windows again and laugh at everyone who is trying to tell me that linux is a stable OS capable of gaming that is about to replace windows for all gamers. I literally can't use my computer for more than 5 minutes on Linux lol.

This isn't happening only on Bazzite, i tried Arch, Cachyos, Nobara and Omarchy, all of those distros just crash in the same way.

I checked the journalctl -b -1 and i see errors like
kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a bug in the amdgpu kernel driver

I tried searching online and i found only people complaining about this error with literallly 0 fixes...

I REALLY want to stop using windows for obvious reasons, but seems like im just not allowed to.

DDawiss Hey, so im just trying to switch to linux as my daily driver but im about to giv...

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:29 PM

chech the dmesg output

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:29 PM

Btw my specs:

Ryzen 5 5600
RX7600 8GB
32GB ram

And im using 244hz 2440x1440 screen

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:30 PM

Also my pc doesnt freeze in TTY session

GGaming4LifeDE chech the dmesg output

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:30 PM

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DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:30 PM

Sorry for phone photos, i cant screenshot this

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:32 PM

You need you page the output (like sudo dmesg | lesssudo dmesg | less) so you can scroll and try to look for gpu related stuff in there

GGaming4LifeDE You need you page the output (like `sudo dmesg | less`) so you can scroll and tr...

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:36 PM

Like, some errors? I didn't find anything there

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:36 PM

Ok weird

GGaming4LifeDE Ok weird

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:37 PM

Is dmesg showing logs of current boot tho?

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:38 PM

Or the last one that crashed

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:38 PM

found this thread in the arch linux forum. Seems like this wasn't solved though. There's a workaround but that results in much higher idle power consumption: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305130

DDawiss Or the last one that crashed

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:38 PM

current

GGaming4LifeDE current

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:39 PM

Then it wont show anything i guess cuz when it freeze i have to reboot

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:39 PM

So to check logs after system freeze it would have to show last boot logs

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:42 PM

try sudo journalctl -b -1 --systemsudo journalctl -b -1 --system

GGaming4LifeDE try `sudo journalctl -b -1 --system`

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:46 PM

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DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:46 PM

Im gonna try
amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10
Boot args

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:46 PM

Does this happen with other distros bew?

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:47 PM

Yes

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:47 PM

I forgot to mention btw

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:47 PM

It didnt happen on lts kernel

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:47 PM

But anything new that isn't lts just has this crash

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:47 PM

But from what i heard, i want to use newest kernels

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:47 PM

For ntsync optimizations etc.

DDawiss Im gonna try amdgpu.runpm=0 amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 Boot args

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:48 PM

It crashed 20 seconds after logging in

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:48 PM

Crazy

DDawiss It crashed 20 seconds after logging in

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:53 PM

Kwin_watland_drm errors are gone tho

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:54 PM

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DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:54 PM

I used -p err arg for journal here

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:55 PM

Without -p err

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Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 12:56 PM

I think someone more familiar with the kernel needs to look at this, this is really starting to get beyond my knowledge, sorry

DawissOP•12/21/25, 12:57 PM

Np thanks for trying

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:02 PM

looks like it's stable when i switched from 240hz to 60hz

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:02 PM

im even able to download discord and chat right now

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:03 PM

but there is no way i'm gonna use 60hz on this screen just to use linux

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 1:04 PM

Try 144

GGaming4LifeDE Try 144

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:11 PM

Crashed on 120 (didn't have 144 choice)

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 1:13 PM

interesting. sucks though

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 1:13 PM

I wonder if you can use bazzite with lts kernels

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:48 PM

Gemini AI told me to add pcie_aspm=off boot arg

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:48 PM

works for now

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:52 PM

my game is running at 15fps now tho xD

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:53 PM

(was at 70 before)

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:53 PM

well im just gonna use windows and check back on linux after i change my gpu cuz it's just pointless

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:57 PM

Can't escape the bloated spyware AI paid operating system with ads

DawissOP•12/21/25, 1:59 PM

I still believe there will be that day when linux will become a stable operating system for everyone tho

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 2:03 PM

Definitely

Gaming4LifeDE•12/21/25, 2:03 PM

Maybe try the GNOME version actually

GGaming4LifeDE Maybe try the GNOME version actually

DawissOP•12/21/25, 2:21 PM

DE doesn't really matter, it was same on Hyprland, KDE and Cosmic

DawissOP•12/21/25, 2:21 PM

It's about wayland i guess

System freezing after 5 minutes of usage. (Sometimes even after 20 seconds)

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