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This post can be taken as-is with "Lemmy" replaced with "Linux", and I fucking hate it. So many people despise the idea of "normies" coming to what they love as if they're the reason things got so bad. This stuff could be so great if they were actually made for everyone.
"What you are referring to as Linux..."
Of course the question about the clock is meant to be in regards to desktop environments, not "Linux". I don't think anyone here would suggest otherwise.
Basically any recommendation always has to come with the additional note for rich people: "If you want an optimal experience buy a Tuxedo, System76 or Slimbook Laptop" (that said, Slimbook offers a laptop for as low as 600β¬). Because even if they screw it up there is a hotline to ask.
For anyone else⦠well, it has to be an older system. The problem isn't necessarily Linux, but the lack of hardware vendors supporting it so the community has to do it themselves. However this obviously doesn't matter for end users, they just want it to work.
tl;dr Either buy yourself a good experience, or find sth. like a "Linux install party" or hackerspace with regular open days (also often offering said install parties). If you aren't an expert, do not move to Linux alone since there's always something unexpected that can happen.
You really ask to get the Stallman quote here.
Lol, Arch Linux is good to learn quickly if you like that. Suggesting it to non-experts however is an act of sadism. π
Lutris is also a great option, actively contributing to it. Got a slightly different focus than Heroic, but a lot more features as well. Basically a one-stop shop once you got familiar with it. Really needs more people that can contribute though given the huge amount of platforms and launchers it attempts to cover (literally all of them).
There are one or two devices from Lenovo that get sold with Ubuntu, you have to reeeally look for them though (also it's only in the US I believe).
- Slimbook offers Slimbook OS or whatever you pick from about a dozen.
- Tuxedo Computers offers Tuxedo OS and Ubuntu.
- NovaCustom also got about a dozen they preinstall.
- Same with Star Labs.
- System 76 of course got their own Pop!_OS.
- Purism got PureOS as well as Qubes.
- Laptops with Linux got a huge list.
- Ubuntushop.be got, well Ubuntu. As well as a dozen others.
- Minifree is more for nerds, offering Debian as well as BSDs. Also installs others if requested.
- Nitrokey has Ubuntu, Qubes and Mint.
- Framework also work heavily on Linux support, it seems they might offer preinstalls in the future.
- I think there also are Juno Computers as well as Entroware if they're still in business. So yeah⦠lots of vendors with lots of choices. Most will probably either pick the default (in case of Slimbook or Tuxedo) or just Ubuntu, since they heard that name before.
No. It's only in the experimental build as it's still unstable for many people. They briefly introduced it, then got lots of complains and pulled it again.
No. The only DE currently supporting it as experimental feature is KDE. Same with Hyprland. In Gnome it's still being worked on. Cosmic promised it to be supported in the first stable release, so also still in progress.
There may be a lot of reasons why the problems don't apply to you guys. Perhaps you just use nouveau. Perhaps you prefer to not use cutting edge hardware. You might stuck to a distro that did an exceptional job. Perhaps it's also a little bit of selective perception (you might fix something that appears tiny to you, but is a system breaker for others who intimately familiar with Linux).
What I can say is, after using both desktops and laptops with many different distros for about a decade and now helping my family at moving over to Linux, that there absolutely are a thousand ways for the Nvidia driver to break. On one machine it decided to stop working with Wayland after a kernel upgrade after working fine with it beforehand. On another one the driver utility of Mint failed to install the driver. And on my laptop the driver failed due to Nvidia screwing up their repo for Tumbleweed with faulty dependencies. Also, does "Nvidia repo went offline for half a day, preventing setting up a new system" count? (It's hosted by Nvidia)
It's good to hear you lucked out, however for many users and distro maintainers those drivers are an absolute pain. Assumingly also for Nvidia given they began working on a completely new driver.
"Nvidia GPU working"
If the driver feels like it, lol.
Discord does still not work properly, the meme is wrong. They had the support for a short while and then pulled it again because it didn't properly work.
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And circumcised as well. Weird not to show one fully intact in medical literature.
One thing is for sure though, someone spend quite a lot of thought on that dick.
Modern Proton versions should compile shaders beforehand, I know what you describe from when it had to do it in realtime. If it happens again try clearing the Shader Cache in the Steam Settings or switch to a newer Proton version.
I think that card fell right in the gap when the switch from the older Radeon driver to amdgpu happened (or sth. across those lines, I sometimes see that exact architecture needing some love to run nicely). Didn't had any issues with anything from RX 550 upwards ever since amdgpu became the default.
Interesting, and good to hear they've managed so far. So far my "career" included Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, Debian, Pop!_OS and OpenSuse. At one point or another the Nvidia drivers were a pain on all of them except Pop!, they circumvented most problems most likely due to their approach of maintaining an (almost) dedicated Nvidia build of their distro. Something they can specifically afford given they sell devices with those cards and got people working on this stuff 24/7.
Funnily enough Flatpak works for me like a charm. π
They're the ATI drivers of this century.
Which distro? You perhaps lucked out so far. Anyone using Linux for multiple years can attest for the trash that are Nvidia drivers, especially once you compare it to AMD (who, outside of professional applications, usually don't need any driver install or setup at all).
Even worse, they use a distro that senselessly repackages your stuff but does it wrong so you get flooded with bug reports.
Looking at you, Fedora.