People actually thought about that… so snapshots are read-only by design

• Arch

• 7.1.6

• “the past few days”

Those 3 don’t go together…

Edit: Oh, wow… Scrap that.

I completely missed that the main kernel is still stuck on 7.1.6 as even the RealTime one usually lagging behind is on 7.1.8 already.

That being said I have seen comments about fixes to AMD GPUs in 7.1.8. So how about testing it with that kernel to see it is solved there?

(heavy?)

And right there lies your misconception. Newer software is not heavier by definition. Quite the contrary it often gets more efficient because of constant optimisation and improvements.

The concept of newer software using up ressouces like crazy is the scam used by corporate OS’ so you buy new hardware constantly.