Attached the last boot which just froze.
Has a dual boot with Win 11 (possibly the issue, haven’t booted into win11 since i got it a month ago). Changed to x11, not sure exactly what is causing it, but before switching from KDE to Gnome figured I’d ask if anyone has any additional suggestions to try.
Also added this to the nvidia modset config
options nvidia-drm modeset=1 options nvidia_drm fbdev=1 options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 options nvidia Nvreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1
System Information: --full link here https://paste.centos.org/view/6c9bb742
State: idle Deployments: ● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable Digest: sha256:4a5ecbd500cb3206eedd818dfbafbfbb68c82b57607958aab6728fdc37b8f326 Version: 43.20260120.1 (2026-01-20T06:11:01Z) LayeredPackages: cmake plasma-workspace-x11
ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-nvidia-open:stable Digest: sha256:4a5ecbd500cb3206eedd818dfbafbfbb68c82b57607958aab6728fdc37b8f326 Version: 43.20260120.1 (2026-01-20T06:11:01Z) LayeredPackages: cmake
I believe I may have been experiencing the same on a RTD 4080 Super. I have tried various distros using KDE Plasma over the last year and all seem to eventually do this kind of behavior. Out of nowhere the mouse will start to “lag” and then the screen freezes and if I wait a few more seconds, the computer reboots itself.
Has happened on CachyOS, Garuda Linux KDE Lite, Bazzite, and one other I can’t remember.
Last night I dug into my logs and various forums and it seems it may be related to Wayland. It just doesn’t play nice with Nvidia and some drivers.
So I refreshed again to Linux Mint Cinnamon which uses x11. I’ve been gaming for hours and installing games and have not had this happen yet. Things have been much more smooth.
When I was on CachyOS, I tried what you did and switched to x11, but KDE recently moved to Wayland exclusively, so maybe it was still relying on something for Wayland or some other component was causing issues?
Either way, I want to say I found the issue here. Things have been fine so far with no bugs. I would have experienced it by now with a distro with Wayland.
Kind of my thoughts as well. Think ill switch to gnome to see if i run into the same problem. Thanks.
I’ve had my system often freezing randomly when my hard drive began to fail. Could that be the cause?
Drives are brand new and health checked.