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.

  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
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    26 days ago

    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?

    You’ve given so little insight into your experience

    My most recent hardware has been fine

    • My framework 13 amd has worked perfectly with Fedora Kinoite.
    • My Minisforum UM780XTX has been a great Steam console with Bazzite
    • My desktop is a gigabyte x570 board with a ryzen 3700X and a 5700XT GPU, has been solid for years, running Fedora KDE and then Kinoite.
    • My workstation at work is a HP 845 G11 and it works fine, also running Fedora Kinoite

    In the past I’ve had thinkpads (an X1 carbon and a T485), also good choices

    Over my 12 years of using Linux as my daily for work and home (and about 13 years of fiddling with it on and off before that), avoid realtek hardware, avoid nvidia gpus, avoid switchable graphics, avoid strange OEM feature devices. Check hardware for compatibility before you buy it. Stick to mainstream distros, not niche 1 man community distros. I’ve moved to immutable/atomic distros because they are harder to tinker with outside of user space, as historically tinkering is what got me into trouble, now I do that in a container away from my base OS.

    • shapis@lemmy.mlOP
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      26 days ago

      I havent tried atomic distros yet, but they just seem painful to use. Getting different applications to interact with each other just seems difficult in them.

      • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
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        26 days ago

        there is some change of workflow, but its not difficult. The benefits outweigh the changes or any perceived draw back IMHO

    • thejevans@lemmy.ml
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      26 days ago

      similarly, for me:

      my desktop was a bit buggy when I was doing bleeding-edge wayland/nvidia stuff on Arch. I switched to an AMD GPU, and haven’t had issues since. I’ve since distro-hopped to Nobara, then Bazzite, then NixOS, all with no issues.

      My Framework 13 laptop was good on Manjaro with no bugs and now is good on NixOS.

      My 2013 Macbook Air is also bug-free on NixOS.