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This cracks me up, why is there a bunch separated from the rest?

One of us

I was expecting this on a pos enterprise system that barely managed win 10 (but has 12 usb ports!!!). For context, the replacement drive I got for it from the IT department that “disposed of” the tower had windows 7 installed on it, they said that was the best it could probably do, which is why they were obsoleted years ago.

There must have been something really wrong with other components because even with antixlinux, which doesn’t even have seem to have sound support out of the box, and is meant to be used off a usb (keeps a persistent state on the USB so you can take your OS and data with you), it was slow as molasses. (I also tried mint and raw Debian and a couple other things and they all sucked hard)

So I threw Ubuntu back on and use it only for the Plex desktop app in my bedroom where I try not to watch too much tv. Is the only thing that runs on it without issues as long as I never close it. Reboots take 10 min tho. Not even remotely worth troubleshooting (that’s pc#4 in my house… I live alone. I have other options.)

This all to say, if it doesn’t respond well to Linux, there might be something else going on :)

BASICALLY YEAH

Every time I stumble across an uptime post I laugh, and then proceed to do my daily ritual of having to fully pull out my power cable and reinsert it to get the laptop to wake up.

I didn't either.

I'll be in my bunk.

Pop_OS I s a great first "it just works" experience.

But also, don't be af aid to be a bit of a distro slut. I've been distro hopping lately and it's very liberating.

If you want to try another, "it just works" experience, I highly recommend bazzite. It doesn't exactly work for me because of the immutability, and I run high end hardware in weird configurations, Ill need to hop in and wrench on things from time to time. But I installed it in my exploration last week and found it immensely pleasurable.

If anyone wants to provide some guidance for how to overcome some of the issues immutability creates (I need specific versions of ollama and rocm), I could really use the help.

Good first choice! Glad you like it :)

I wish you luck with it. I was turned off Linux until recently just because of base functionality. But hey, wifi is working, and my USB HID stuff is all working too. I'm not a hardcore gamer so that doesn't affect me. If anything, I'll trade any 3d functions for faster and more efficient 2d and text.

Do you have an Nvidia graphics card or why did you pick one of the few distributions that doesn't ship the latest Radeon and Intel drivers?

Man, I did the same thing 15 years ago, and between gaming and Ubuntu itself being honestly fairly user hostile at that point (regardless of what the cult said) , it turned me off of trying Linux again for a looong while

I swear Lemmy just turns everyone in a variation of the same person. Its bizarre. We all subconsciously end up watching the same YouTube channels and read the same books.

I hate them, wish I could go all Mao on their asses. But yeah, Linux rocks. Heard great things about Pop. Looking forward for your meme posts asking for help here.

Yeah, it’s a little of both, but at least if I don’t use Linux for a while I don’t feel the same problem happening usually

In my experience, if I don’t touch my gaming PC for a month or two and then go boot up Linux it means I just have a long update, but I can also opt to ignore it and deal with it later. On Windows, I don’t really have that choice as much, and updating is extra annoying because it reboots itself multiple times so I have to babysit it otherwise it boots back into Linux after a few seconds on the bootloader

ALVR is so frustratingly close to working for me with the Quest 2 on Linux

Some games actually work flawlessly with it for me now, but recently I wanted to get back into Into The Radius 2 since they updated it a lot, and because it only supports a specific VR framework that I can’t seem to get my system to use, the game itself doesn’t connect to my headset, so I had to boot back into windows for that

I also switched to Pop!_OS a couple days ago. I've only used Windows all my life and this distro made everything so easy. The Pop Store is a lifesaver.

Heck, I've been hacking Linux for a quarter century and I've installed Pop! OS on my main machines because I just want shit that works.