Do you guys have higher tolerance to buggy bs? Are you all gaslighting people to get higher adoption? Does it just work? If so… How??

I’ve tried about every distro in multiple different laptops/desktops, amd gpus, basically every possible idea and there’s always weird ass bugs and issues and a ton of involuntary learning involved.

edit. Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that “just works” no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?

edit2. Since people are asking for specifics I’m going to pick one random distro I’ve tried recently and list the issues I’ve had:

  • On Arch fresh install with archinstall, everything default pmuch:

Immediately greeted with this. thread discussing it here.

I could live with that though, kinda…

Gnome apps in Arch are taking multiple seconds to open/tab back into and freezing, no idea how to debug it.

Could also live with it…

The killer one is that the battery life just sucks badly. about 15W idling with tlp, for comparison Debian with tlp gives me sub 5Watts. But again, Debian comes with a whole different set of issues.

I’ve only listed the one I’ve tried most recently, but the experience is similar with all distros I’ve tried.

  • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Okay, your post is a bit weird, so I’ll just tell you about my setup:

    I have a custom built PC for like 4 or 5 years and have Linux on there permanently for at least 2.

    It has an AMD Ryzen 7 (AM4) CPU and a Nvidia 2060 Super.

    I often tried new distros before the final switch. In the end I chose PopOS. For me it mostly just works.

    All the core features are effectively bugless.

    Games sometimes don’t work or need a little tweak in steam, but that is like one game out of 20.

    BUT:
    I don’t play AAA games. Like ever. I played Darktide for a month maybe and “Witcher 3” butthis is the closest I got to “real” AAA games in the last 5 years.
    Indie Games nearly always “just work”.

    Few examples from the last months:

    • Deep Rock Galactic
    • Satisfactory
    • Witch It
    • Factorio Space Age
    • Cogmind
    • Dwarf Fortress
    • Ultimate Chicken Horse
    • Disco Elysium
    • The Last Journey
    • Core Keeper
    • Celeste
    • Stardew Valley

    They all ran fine. The one Issue I had was that steam didn’t show this DirectX-Popup and I thought the games didn’t start. But after that it all just worked.
    Also sometimes mods are hard. This is mostly for games I didn’t buy on steam and that have weird community-built mod managers.