Funny, because I had the opposite problem with my laptop… Bazzite couldn’t seem to keep the nvidia gpu happy and working so I switched to Garuda and it hasn’t had a problem gaming since.

I love Linux, but hate the user-to-user inconsistency - it really makes answering the #1 question “which distro should I use” basically impossible to answer. Go download all of them that sound interesting and put them on flash drives and try them out in live environment - narrow down to the ones you like the look of the most, and then install them and try it out and see if you can do what you need or not. It’s not a difficult process but it is a process and there is no simple answer.

And here I thought everything in this comic was just sweating profusely, including the words on the laptop screen.

Sorta same, but my problems expand beyond just Mint… I had a lot of problems with Ubuntu several years back, so I was convinced to switch to Manjaro. That was an absolutely unabashed fucking nightmare. I thought I was either cursed or just too stupid for Linux for a while. I still don’t know if I just got very unlucky or if I was/am too stupid for the distros that everyone shouts praises from the rooftops for… I stumbled into Garuda Linux and it has been a dream come true.

Oh cool. Thank you for the info. I hear people talking about RISC-V a lot, but was nearing the parks and rec meme of “I don’t know and am too afraid to ask”, lol.

Are the processors good? Like, does performance compare to the alternatives? (I’m assuming these are alternatives to like an ARM based SOC?)

For the my layperson friend reading over my shoulder… erm, why?

with a pronounced first syllable

They are one syllable words…

That’s the first one… Wait, how do you think Cache is pronounced??

Nobody gives a single salty fuck what chatgpt says.

I don’t understand… If you get the lock off of the bike, then you get the lock off the grenade pin, no? What am I missing? Or is the idea that they don’t notice this whole thing and try to ride off and that automatically primes and drops the grenade? Then you still don’t have a bike. I don’t get it. :/

I did jump in when Bazzite first began to gain traction early on, so I feel like it’s reasonable to expect some kinks to work out. And like I mentioned, it is very difficult to completely brick a Bazzite install as you can always boot into the last working configuration.

I love it. It’s been my only OS on my desktop almost 3 years now (and now my laptop for almost 1 year). I know a lot of people get turned off by the appearance, but it is a truly great distro imo… I don’t love the theme either, but I also don’t love default KDE theme, so a fresh install is going to always be a few minutes of tweaking the ui anyway so where it starts doesn’t bother me at all.

Nothing that I know of, lol. I use the laptop infrequently, usually at a DnD game every other weekend. I don’t know if that is part of the problem, like it really wants to run updates more often than once every few weeks? I would let it run updates via whatever it is that pops up in the system tray asking to run updates. Eventually, anytime it tried to update it would give me an error message, undo whatever had been done so far, and then close itself. I think they have a new software center now, Bazaar or something? This was before that was released so the problems might not repeat if I tried it again.

And honestly, rebasing to a new image was incredibly easy to do, it just takes a bit of time, but I didn’t like randomly “having to” do it.

I was already running Garuda on my desktop for about a year prior to the Bazzite problems on my laptop, so I just switched the laptop to Garuda as well.

Honestly, installing Linux these days is significantly easier than installing windows. For every distro I’ve tried anyway (haven’t tried any of the “hard” distros).

That’s only really true in the sense that you will “get a bootable OS”. I had Bazzite just stop being able to update itself 3 times in a year, two times I had to entirely rebase to a newer image to get it working again, last time I just left it, pulled the drive out, and installed a different distro. I still have it, it still boots to exactly what it was before, and it still won’t update - but in an external enclosure it makes for a good “emergency” boot option (better than a live USB stick anyway).

I got to the “draw a perfect circle”… 94% is wild.

I figure first thing I am going to do with a new OS is change how it looks to my liking anyway. What’s underneath is pretty great imo - it was the only distro I tried that actually had working nvidia drivers for my laptop “out of the box”. I couldn’t even get it to play games with the bazzite image specifically for asus laptops with nvidia gpus. I was not smart enough to fix it.

I could have sworn I had a bank card for a while with a 6-digit pin… Am I crazy? Is that impossible? Or is the joke worn out?

My laptop has an nvidia gpu. It never really worked right on Bazzite, basically could not game unless the igpu could run the game. I switched it over to Garuda (which I had been running on my desktop for a couple of years) and the gpu drivers all just worked. It now plays games just as easily as my desktop. The above comment could basically be exactly my experience, just replace openSUSE Tumbleweed with Garuda. I am unlikely to hop distros because I (luckily) found one that “just works” for me.

Honestly, that is kind of the beauty of Linux to me, and why I hate all of the “distro recommendation” threads. If someone only tries one distro, they might never stay because they got unlucky. I’d love for them all to truly work just as well as any other, like so many posts claim, but it just isn’t the case (out of the box, at least). We all have so many varied experiences that drive those recommendations.