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ASUS Refreshes ROG Zephyrus G14 And G16 With Intel Panther Lake Lineup #asus #g14 #g16 #laptops #rog #zephyrus

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/377957/asus-refreshes-rog-zephyrus-g14-and-g16-with-intel-panther-lake-lineup/

#ASUSROG launches new #Zephyrus #gaming laptops

https://www.technewsro.blog/asus-rog-lanseaza-noile-laptopuri-de-gaming-zephyrus/

Its a beautiful little thing. #omarchy #Zephyrus #g14

"The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical Investigation"

#ASUS #Firmware #Stutter #Crackle #ACPI #Strix #Scar #Zephyrus

https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

2025 DCI Little Rock Thoughts

I caught the DCI Little Rock show on FloMarching last Saturday. After each performance, I posted my thoughts on social media. I’ve collected those thoughts here as this was my first viewing of these corps.

Memphis Blues: Welcome to Open Class! Great to have the legacy of the Memphis Blues Brass Band on the field. Also nice you took advantage of Rhapsody In Blue going public domain this year.

Zephyrus: Welcome to Open Class! You’ve got the horses in the horn line, so be sure to […]

https://medi-nerd.com/2025/07/14/2025-dci-little-rock-thoughts/

I’m running #CachyOS (based on Arch) on my Asus ROG #Zephyrus G14 5080. CachyOS is on the latest Linux kernel which always has the best compatibility for new hardware. Almost everything works as is: WiFi is fast, Bluetooth, dGPU, etc. I’ve been playing many hours on #ClairObscur with great performance and no crashes.

The biggest issue volume up/down buttons are not working and seem to change the bass/treble balance instead. You can still change the volume with CLI commands. (This is being worked on).

A minor issue is that the dGPU/iGPU switching with asusctl sometimes fails to switch the GPU unless you reboot.

Anyway I’m really happy with it. Got so tired of #Windows trying to use my personal data and taking hours to install and update tons of crap that I don’t want or need. CachyOS has a graphical installer and takes about 15-20 minutes depending on internet speed.

Glad Global Riddims is part of Mastodon.

Listen to the teaser of our latest Global Riddims.
Let us know what you think!

Link to the show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/GlobalRiddims/158-tony-allen-la-bogot%C3%A1-orquesta-afrobeat-mulatu-astatke-black-flower-bab-lbluz-gitkin-dowdelin/

#afrobeat #tonyallen #blackflower #zephyrus #ethiojazz #ethio #realworldrecords #BabLBluz #gerardofrisina #dowdelin #TheBongoHop #ChipWickham #GlobalRiddims #NYPRecords

Punirunes Puni 2 - Episode 20

Airing at: 02/22/2025 06:15 PM

In episode 20 of Punirunes Puni 2, our heroes embark on a daring quest to retrieve the legendary Crystal of Time from the clutches of the evil sorcerer, Zephyrus. A...

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#PunirunesPuni2 #CrystalOfTime #Zephyrus #AnimeAdventure

ASUS Updates Its ROG Zephyrus Series With NVIDIA RTX 50 Series GPUs #asus #asusrog #gaming #laptops #rogzephyrus #zephyrus #zephyrusg14 #zephyrusg16

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/340729/asus-updates-rog-zephyrus-series-rtx-50-series/

ASUS ROG CES 2025: laptop gaming con RTX 50 e Ryzen 9000
#AMDRyzen9000 #ASUS #ASUSROG #CES2025 #IntelCoreUltra #LaptopGaming #Notizie #Novità #ROGFlowZ13 #ROGStrixSCAR #RTX50 #TechNews #Tecnologia #Zephyrus

https://www.ceotech.it/asus-rog-ces-2025-laptop-gaming-con-rtx-50-e-ryzen-9000/

After I made the decision to move away from #apple at least for my laptop, I decided to get an Asus and go all in on #linux for daily driving. I’ve been using various Linux distros at work for years, but rarely as an end user in a desktop environment.

I’ve had my #asus #Zephyrus #ryzen now for a few weeks. I’m running @fedora #auroradx and it is really well thought out. Lots of great quality of life features that are very Mac-like, and I’m happy with the distro. The performance is great. I can game. I’m happy with that side of things.

That said, the sooner we all make the switch to ARM, the better.

I’ve been running an M3 #MacBookpro for work for several months. I knew, in spite of the positives, there were going to be some migration pains moving to Linux full time.

The biggest drawback that I wasn’t expecting? Battery life.

My M3 can run for *days* on a single charge, under medium use. Under heavy use (gaming, k8s, etc), I can still *easily* get 6-7 hours.

My brand new Asus? Just under 3. And that’s with the display set to low brightness and eco performance mode in the OS. And I’m even running AMD, so I can only imagine how terrible Intel would’ve been.

That hurts.
It was incredible to just rarely have to worry about battery. Even when you hit 10% battery, you often still have a solid 45 minutes to an hour before you even have to worry.
It is really disappointing to go back to the background irritation of always needing to know where my power cable is.

x86 can go ahead and pass into the history books. Kthx bye.

I recently did a "soft" distro switch from #fedora workstation to #kinoite, with a specific variant called #bazzite.

https://bazzite.gg/

I already use containers all the time in my day job, so the Atomic desktop approach makes a ton of sense to me. I also recently switched from a Macbook Pro over to an #asus #zephyrus G16, so Bazzite is an especially good fit for that.

It's taken me a few days to get my head around the general approach for installing things, as it doesn't use dnf directly. But I think this morning, I finally "got it", and I am now fully on the atomic train:

For daily driving tasks, you can do everything you need to do with a combo of flatpak, brew, and Distrobox. (And automate my whole set of preferences with #ansible of course)
...which is actually pretty damn awesome.

For hardware related tasks, Bazzite ships with an extremely useful `ujust` CLI that handles a very sensible set of the essentials.

There's a few very minor tradeoffs. Example: #1password browser extension doesn't directly interface with the desktop app anymore due to the sandboxing. (Hopefully there's a fix for that as this approach to #linux matures)

All in all though, I think the Kinoite branch of Fedora might be my new distro home base.

So…at first there was a little bit of friction, but now that I’ve been reading up on #fedora #Kinoite Im getting the hang of the differences between it and workstation. I installed #bazzite on my #asus #Zephyrus and I think I might actually end up preferring this. I’m gonna give it more time before I give a full recommendation…but so far, very cool.

Update: Setting up #guix turned out to be much better than I expected. Bootable USB could connect to wifi (despite unsupported hardware warning), but installed system couldn’t. So had to chroot, add #nonguix to install non-libre kernel.

Now on to do some reading to replicate my #nixos setup, I like ‘em contained in a git repo.

Bonus profit: My #asus #zephyrus used to get super hot and made loud fan noises on NixOS, but it is silent and cool on guix. I have no idea why, I didn’t know it was possible to calm it down (I thought it was a bad machine). 💚