testing kernels 60 and 61rc5, just changin kernels, rest of the system is the same
Results kernel 60: system buggy, slow, plasma restarts randomly, activities take up to 30 seconds to change, graphical bugs in several applications (brave, teams, onlyoffice)
Results kernel 61: system faster, no plasma restart so far, activities change in less than 1 second, no more graphical bugs so far
only new βproblemβ I had, was some intel bluetooth driver errors on machine boot, which didnβt prevent the bluetooth even from working:
Summary
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-20-1-3.sfi
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Boot Address: 0x24800
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware Version: 106-39.22
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: FW download error recovery failed (-19)
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: sending frame failed (-19)
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read MSFT supported features (-19)
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
nov 14 23:17:49 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Bootloader revision 0.3 build 0 week 24 2017
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Device revision is 1
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Secure boot is enabled
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: OTP lock is enabled
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: API lock is enabled
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Debug lock is disabled
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Minimum firmware build 1 week 10 2014
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Found device firmware: intel/ibt-20-1-3.sfi
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Boot Address: 0x24800
nov 14 23:17:50 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware Version: 106-39.22
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for firmware download to complete
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware loaded in 1318166 usecs
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Waiting for device to boot
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Device booted in 14622 usecs
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Found Intel DDC parameters: intel/ibt-20-1-3.ddc
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Applying Intel DDC parameters completed
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware revision 0.3 build 106 week 39 2022
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Bad flag given (0x1) vs supported (0x0)
nov 14 23:17:51 Zen kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Bad flag given (0x1) vs supported (0x0)
Kernels are for hardware support. New kernels enable new hardware to function. Looking at your hardware, I dont see any newer hardware. New kernels also introduce new bugs sometimes. I recommend you try the 5.15 LTS (long term support) kernel and see if the problem remains. In any event keep at least two kernels installed.
I am using kernel 6.0.8-1 with no issues. What I look for is whether a kernel resumes from sleep which is important to me. No issues with that either. FIY, I am using it with the Nouveau driver and x-11.