Every few years, i come back to Linux to see how far i can get before hitting a major obstacle. Installed Linux mint summer last year to get away from windows.

First impression: Steam and proton are great, i can play my favorite game Mechabellum without any issue. Helldivers 2 otoh won’t work due to what seems to be an anti cheat tool.

Software development is also kinda good. Install vs code, let’s go.

But then the trouble begins: my brother laser printer that works out of the box with windows and macOS refuses to print. No error message or anything, just nothing happens. Next thing is that i want to use lm studio to host local llms, but they don’t have s full release for Linux, only a beta that is not available from the mint AppStore. There is an appimage available however, so i have to learn how to handle these. Too bad the Linux version does not support in app update, you always have to install the newest appimafe manually.

I would like to develop an llm application using C#. I download the dotnet framework from the AppStore, but VSCODE is not able to find it. After directing several hours trying to find out why this is, i surrender.

And then, for some reason, my NVIDIA card breaks. I try to reset to an older version of the driver, but to no avail - i don’t know whats going on, but stream only shows if i deactivate hardware acceleration and games also will only run on the integrated graphics card.

I surrendered and went back to windows. See you guys in 2 years.