I may be misreading this, but POP!_OS will work more than fine on an AMD CPU/GPU, as will any modern Linux distro. However, for people that Nvidia's proprietary drivers, POP!_OS also has pretty good integration out of the box that sets them apart from other distros (likely because the developer, System76, also makes laptops with Nvidia GPUs).
That being said, I've been on EndeavourOS for the past year and a half and I really like it so far. It's basically just arch but with a GUI installer and some extra theming/add-ons, which personally has worked great for me.
Thanks for this! I ended up fixing the local steam install (ended up being a network manager problem with steam) but I'll keep this in mind because I'll probably want to switch to the flatpak version in the future anyway
Manjaro's delayed package system can actually make things less stable if you use AUR. I'd recommend EndeavourOS for that experience, it's very similar to Manjaro but in my experience hasn't broken as much
Apparently it was a problem with their network manager library, installing lib32-libnm ended up fixing it for me. (I'm assuming my laptop already had that installed as a dependency for something else or as part of the default KDE install)
how do I hardlink files? I've been using linux for a few years but I've never really used links before for files. This seems to be the best strategy because everything else hasn't worked so far
That's fair, it seems like something that would be useful to have but probably shouldn't be showing up on "all" type feeds, though I'm not sure if there is any way to fix that past just blocking communities. Maybe allowing users to block entire instances in their profiles could help.
I may be misreading this, but POP!_OS will work more than fine on an AMD CPU/GPU, as will any modern Linux distro. However, for people that Nvidia's proprietary drivers, POP!_OS also has pretty good integration out of the box that sets them apart from other distros (likely because the developer, System76, also makes laptops with Nvidia GPUs).
That being said, I've been on EndeavourOS for the past year and a half and I really like it so far. It's basically just arch but with a GUI installer and some extra theming/add-ons, which personally has worked great for me.