But Jolla is Finnish?..

(Fun Fact: Jolla means “small boat” in Finnish)

Of course; he’s the other kind of plant. Mycelium is neither.

I suspect they may have the capitol to make their own hardware when it gives to a potential phone.

Just a hunch

A lot of people here missing the bigger picture:

This could be the start for a Valve-backed Linux phone.

Before that you can also just try an older version of proton. You might be on latest / experimental and it updated.

Wouldn’t it makes more sense to take it then once you’re already blind? Then there’s less risk of blindness technically

Seaweed

Well luckily I have an emergency spare 1660 super at least that I know works.

First time I’ve been burned on a used card. Should have been known that deal was too good to be true this time.

Still, between the 1660 super and this 3060ti, still cheaper than a new 4050 or 5060 and even AMD stuff of comparable performance. Though the Intel Arcs are around there - if I knew how well they ran on Linux, I’d be willing to give them a try in the future brand new.

Solved

It’s the GPU hardware that was the problem 😭. This post can be closed.

Credit to Clearwater who figured out the real issue early on.

So, step 1:

What OS did this hardware originally run?

None - all parts new except the graphics card.

Step 2:

What different Linux OS’s have you tried to install on this HW, what happened when you tried to install each one?

Which ones worked as a LiveBoot, but failed on bare metal, or vice versa?

Bazzite, Garuda, and currently Cachy.

Bazzite only worked baremetal, Garuda is stuck at 720p, and Cachy is also stuck at 720p. Changing open source drivers to closed source did not work on Cachy, and the display was glitched. Changing it back didn’t help either.

Edit: I was typing more but figured out it’s the graphics card that’s bad 🥲

Currently Cachy is installing though also has the blurry issue, so I’ll massive check out Pop if I can’t fix that

I’ll try that if still having issues with Cachy, which is at least currently installing. Thanks for the info

So I’ve tried downgrading bios and disabling CPPC, but neither helped.

However, that was with Bazzite, not Cachy. I’m not currently as I speak installing Cachy, as that actually loaded into the live iso (seems Arch based distros so far make it through at least, since Garuda also managed to install) - but, it also currently only outputs in 720p. I’ll see if that persists once it’s fully installed, and if it does, I’ll try something else - I’ll try to see if it’s still blurry when using Dvi instead of HDMI.

It won’t work with a GUI after installing via text installer.

How could I change the driver via terminal?

(Live environment didn’t work either)

Did that one already, next going to try to actually downgrade it

From my experience Bazzite is the easiest to use system for gaming on Linux, but I can’t install it.

I tested Garuda, but even the Mokka edition I know my friend won’t like the aesthetic of, and although it works, for some reason on my monitor it only shows 720p resolution - I don’t know why. It even makes the bios go into 720p when it’s otherwise fine. But that could be because I have a 2k monitor.

I was going to gift them the PC tomorrow since they leave the country for December, so also running out of time. Willing to try other gaming focused systems too.

In fairness, the employees are the highest paid in the industry, making well over 1/2 million a year + bonuses, and even the janitor I believe is well paid, from a leak that came out once in the news.

They also have very few employees surprisingly.

And they’re private, so there’s no “line must always go up” mentality either.

Should they be paid even more? Yes, but compared to basically all other corporations, he’s like last on the list. Not to mention gaming on Linux and open source software (and now, VR on Linux) has basically become possible and easily achievable thanks to Valve, so at least some of that huge money is going back directly to the relevant community. That’s way more than can be said about any other tech company.

He’s still on the list, but he might be the furthest down.

It’s not even real Rust unless it’s coded in the real Rust language of Rustlandia.

Otherwise it’s just sparkling oxidation

Republican levels, so checks out?

It’s not.

Have a friend who works at a decently high position here in Finland and they actually are considering exiting the smartphone market all together because the margins are too small and they make easy more money on other things, like 5G equipment. They kind of want to move past being associated with phones basically.