My first distro has been Nobara after swapping off windows.

It really is dummy proof.

For those on the edge. Just do it. Windows 11 is free to go back to. You risk nothing by giving Linux a try.

Opensuse Tumbleweed tho

IMO, you shouldn't have to learn Arch just to be able to get a new PC. Eventually, people who like Ubuntu and Mint are going to want to upgrade to a new computer, and they might be in for a shock once they do. That kind of thing is what pushes people back to Windows.

I set up my login manager for fedora and my grub for fedora using the arch wiki....

I tried to find a solution for my failing marriage in the arch wiki. The arch wiki instructed me that the problem was consulting the arch wiki. Thanks for saving my marriage, arch wiki!

or fixing windows by only using WSL and reading the arch wiki

You ever read the man pages for mount?

You guys read man pages?

Total oposite experience for me.

Mint us absolutely perfect for folks like me. I want to use my computer, not work on it.

I know you're not going to believe me, because you sound like the type of person who is "set in their ways", but the only thing that makes Mint better for you than some other distro is that it happens to already be installed on your computer. That's it. Mint is not the perfect choice for anyone, because it's not particularly good at anything.

Keep using it. If it works for you, great. I don't care what you use. But we shouldn't be misleading people new to Linux into installing a distro that might not work for them.

Ok, good for you I wasn't arguing

Ah I’m sorry to hear that all I can suggest is trying to look up what your specific hardware is and see if there are any solutions on archwiki or something

I did make sure to get a thinkpad because I heard they have excellent Linux support so it is possible your hardware just doesn’t have a proper solution yet 🤷‍♀️

But I am not a coder so I don’t really know how to do anything but google and try

And then you just go to extensions.gnome.org and tell to run the extensions anyway by ignoring the GNOME version

Don't have much experience but I run extensions designed for 45 on 49 without any problem

Unfortunately for me GNOME without extensions it's unusable and I don't have the patience to stay 3-4 versions behind to ensure compatibility

Edit: I wrote the wrong URL, it was .org and not .com

Lol KDE looks like windows NT? Uh... No.

Wobbly windows is best thing ever by the way.

KDE looks like whatever you want.

Gnome extensions can look pretty much exactly like kde or better depending on your taste, kde is easier to customize and more intuitive. I like that gnome is extension based with each extension being something you pick, many having their own customization and settings.

Some extensions I like: Arcmenu: start menu like windows, kde, etc. lots of layout options, replaces the hot corner big icon search menu thing

Dash to dock: use on handheld, perfect touchscreen menu customizable or (use one at a time) Dash to panel: use on desktop, even more customizable, basically gives you a panel since gnome by default has the hot corner android like app menu (which I also use mostly on the handheld, love the hot corner for moving stuff around)

Windows thumbnails (pip any window, monitor downloads or chats)

I use a lot more but forget the names, nothing really breaks if you toggle use incompatible addons or whatever it's called. You can also edit the addon and change the version since that is what the devs do 90% of the time to update it.

sudo shutdown now

I feel like no OS can get sleep to work properly lol

I've literally never had a problem with this....that I know about.

What are you all turning off?

Ha! It's the one issue that's been giving me the biggest headache through multiple distros. To be fair I believe most of my problems originate from Nvidia hardware and software.

God yes, it was fucking with my partners graphics drivers, and killed most games I have running.

It's annoying, but it isn't feeding my data into the AIs.

This is true of nearly every topic.

all this time spent on setting up a local llm and reinstalling a whole system + setting it up again instead of reading the documentation 😭😭😭

Mfs can't fix a wifi and are asked to install a maintain a local llm server.

Why? Imagine your house's door doesn't work so you have to make a long trip through the back. You keep asking your partner to fix it. They insist they'll get the door working. Either they can't or don't, doesn't matter, but you have the money and are willing to pay for someone to fix it. Your partner insists they can fix it. I think it's reasonable to say something like "if it's not fixed in two weeks I'm paying someone to fix it."

Sound more like tongue in cheek to me, but it is impossible to tell from this few sentence comment.