Preface Firstly, I truly hope this little article could help someone with similar problem. And if anyone feels that they can contribute by improving the informations here, I will be happy to see it in comments. I was setting up Fedora 44 on an ASUS TUF Gaming laptop (AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS, NVIDIA RTX 3050). Everything seemed fine until, about an hour into normal use, the system started falling apart. GNOME would restart itself out of nowhere, dropping every open window mid-work. Firefox crashed taking the session with it. Sometimes, at boot time, a scary kernel panic happened or the entire screen started freeze, forcing me to hold the power button for a hard reset every single time. Switching drivers, reinstalling, updating the BIOS — nothing helped. The BIOS was already at the latest available version. This is apparently a known pain point with ASUS TUF laptops running Linux. And i could see it happen with my own eyes in Debian 13, Ubuntu 26.04 and CachyOS too.…