Thank you for this

ooh i have timeshift automatically set up anyway :)

You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
And that happened in the span of one month too.

Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤

Or use something like TimeShift and set it to automatically create backups.

Before I switched to the boringly stable Bazzite, TimeShift was a godsend. I was able to learn so much about Linux just by not having to worry about fucking up my install because whenever I did, it was trivial to rollback.

so far it's been so good! i think the only issue i've had with linux is that it will randomly freeze everything (usually if I try to load a tab in librewolf/chrome that's a chonky boi or if i'm in zoom) on my laptop and i have to hard reset and i can't figure out how to search for it because i really don't know what causes it :(

It also says I'm using i915 but I bought this laptop a year ago... so I suspect many Intel GPUs use that driver?

Edit: According to https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.14-rc3/gpu/i915.html

The drm/i915 driver supports all (with the exception of some very early models) integrated GFX chipsets with both Intel display and rendering blocks.

does that mean i can upgrade normally and not worry about the kernel?

Yeah, just doing the upgrade via Update Manager > Edit menu leaves you on the 6.8 kernel. Confirmed with all three of my machines I upgraded.

Two of them I have since put on kernel 6.14 via Update Manager > Kernels, after updating to Mint 22.2 and seeing it still on kernel 6.8.

At the time of myhardware upgrade it was only arch and nix that supported 6.14.

I've got mixed feelings about Fedora. I spent 10 years using a mix of Fedora, Red Hat, CEntOS, and Red Hawk at work so I'm very used to it.

However some of the decisions Red Hat the company have been making make me hesitant about it's future. It also makes me feel like I'm at work when I use it at home.

It's not a bad linux family at all and if I was setting up a production server CEntOS would probably be my choice.

I use nobara which is a fork of fedora it's pretty good. Though the update manager gui is complete crap for how slow it is.

Thanks for the feedback! Its a surprisingly big hurdle, especially for someone indecisive that's not going to try all three.

can't you switch from xfce to cinnamon and vice versa too?

I ran Puppy off of a 4gb USB for almost 2 years when the hard drive crashed in my desktop years ago. As far as the "it just works" OS's go, it was fantastic.

Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution that works well!

That's weird, I haven't gotten the update yet but dark mode is working fine in FF for me. The place where it fails is ff-based webapps, which I use for YouTube music, Discord, and MS Teams.

Glad it helped you.

Gnome, which I used to love 20 years ago lol

I thought Bazzite was just for gaming… o would rather a near immutable distribo, once it’s set up with VPN and stuff I want everything else in containers and running at user privileges.

Thanks for the advice. Wanted to give Cinnamon a go, didn't go well when I tried installing it on Kubuntu (permissions with access to important files held in KWallet were all screwed up and half the stuff wasn't working so I kinda gave up).

I call it The Hollywood Mexico Filter.