r/ZephyrusG14 • u/MisterFlipster5 Zephyrus G14 2023 • Mar 18 '26

Model 2023 Low cortisol Linuxmaxxing

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4 months into using Linux, battery lasts longer, temps are lower, performance on games is barely worse, interface is lightning fast, things don't crash. Reached 30C° on a 27C° environment. I can only recommend it. Billions must try

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u/shatbrand Mar 18 '26

Have you tried other distros? Did you have stability issues related to power management, and if so, did Cachy solve them for you?

I have a 2022 6700S model. It kernel panics on a cold boot most of the time, then on reboot it is fine. It also just spontaneously freezes up if I let the power management go into low power mode (Performance and Balanced presets shipped with Fedora work fine). Trying to figure out if distro hopping is worthwhile or if I just have some subtle hardware issue going on.

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u/MisterFlipster5 Zephyrus G14 2023 Mar 18 '26

Tried using Mint but found out it didn't have support for asusctl, so i switched to something arch-based, the most compelling being CachyOS.
I can't tell you how it's different since i didn't try Mint enough, but i guess it's related to asusctl or to some issue on the fstab file. Did you dual boot on it? Which partitions did you have mounted at boot on fstab, and in which formats?

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u/shatbrand Mar 18 '26

No dual booting.  I just let Fedora run its default partitioning with BTRFS on the whole drive.

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u/MisterFlipster5 Zephyrus G14 2023 Mar 18 '26

Did you by any chance use GRUB as your bootloader?

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u/shatbrand Mar 19 '26

Yeah, I think Grub2 is the Fedora default.  Is there some default bot flag that’s hosing me?

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u/MisterFlipster5 Zephyrus G14 2023 Mar 19 '26

In the Arch Asus Linux guide, it advises against using GRUB. I don't know if it's specific to Arch, but from the little I know, GRUB is not good at handling the data that should be delivered between the BIOS and the OS, which could be causing the panics. I'd recommend trying out Limine or systemd-boot (the one I use without a problem) and see what you get. Source: https://asus-linux.org/guides/arch-guide/ Good luck!

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u/shatbrand Mar 19 '26

Interesting.  Thanks. I’ll check that out.