I hate Microsoft and Windows, I want to choose better AND more importantly, see what all this fuss about Linux being awesomest is about

  • cRazi_man@europe.pub
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    2 days ago

    Agree with everything you’ve said. I would add OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I tried all the KDE distros you mentioned and OpenSUSE is what really got me using Linux longterm.

    Also, I didn’t know about this at the time, but now that I look back I wonder if Tuxedo OS would have been the best starting option for me. I wonder why Tuxedo OS hardly gets mentioned.

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      2 days ago

      I’ve been using tumbleweed for awhile and I would be hesitant to suggest it to a new user unless they are comfortable with solving technical problems and learning how to take advantage of its recovery features. (Such as btrfs snapshots)

      It’s got some out of the box issues where you’re expected to research and understand how to solve them. (Like many other distros) Where I’ve found Ubuntu just simply works or its just a few clicks away from working.

      Things like the backlight on laptops not responding, codec support (needing to use packman repo), Nvidia support (has improved significantly over the years).

      And with the nature of tumbleweed there’s so many frequent updates, plus you’re expected to understand how to resolve zypper package concerns.

      Great OS, most issues I’ve had, have been solved. I am currently battling with it to properly support my 9070xt /w rocm. (Mostly working but unstable)

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        1 day ago

        I specifically bought an AMD GPU when building my PC. So I’ve successfully avoided all this Nvidia driver nonsense.