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kaputter_Aimbot@feddit.de 6 months agoHave you ever tried any modern Linux desktop distribution?
I had a bad experience with Ubuntu and the likes about 10-15 years ago (as a daily driver for my desktop, that is). But a lot has changed since then.
Maybe take a look at Pop_OS or Linux Mint. I’m using the latter, it took less than 10 minutes to install and works out of the box! Everything else comes via it’s “app store”.
There is no need for the console, so you don’t need to type any commands!
Even my parents are using it. And gaming works great.
That’s not been my experience with Debian as my daily driver for the last few months. I’m in the console, sorry “Konsole” every few days having to adjust something or install a program that isn’t in the store or available as an app image. It’s working, but I get KDE crashes once or twice a week and the microphone just doesn’t work sometimes.
It’s still much faster than my win10, though.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, the last one I tried was Lubuntu Jammy Jellyfish a few months ago.
Pop was the one I tried first, but the ancient laptop I was using at the time couldn’t hack it, so I went with the ultra light weight version of Ubuntu in stead.
Very little worked out of the box and almost everything took a lot more fiddling and searching and asking for advice to get to work. For example, I never did manage to make bottles work after over a week of trying on and off, doing exactly what the documentation and advice told me to.
I haven’t gotten to the gaming part of my Tiny11 test, so if it fails that, I might give Pop another chance now that I have a much newer one, but Lubuntu is definitely not as hassle free as Linux enthusiasts keep promising that all their favorite distros are…
Emerald@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh man Lubuntu takes me back. I used it back when it still used LXDE, which was actually relevant back then.