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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i’m running ubuntu. its flawless for me.

  if you are running nvidia it might explain the little issues.

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  • Tardil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I run a 4070. What’s the go with nvidia

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      nvidia doesnt follow the standards with their linux driver, its just the windows driver adapted to run on linux. its not bad for gaming ime, but causes all sorts of little issues on the desktop especially if you are running wayland instead of xorg.

      its changing though, they opened the source code for it and are currently rewriting the driver with the community. long way to go still though.

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      • Tardil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never knew, thanks for the info. Probably explains what I experienced. Nothing super major but just enough to annoy me over time

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  • DNAmaster10@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you mean by this?

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      nvidia drivers are much less than ideal on linux, it causes all sorts of small issues on the desktop. depends on your setup though, some people run it fine.

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      • DNAmaster10@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hmm. I think I’m going mad - I read your comment completely differently last time. Seemed completely unreliable. Probably just me lol.

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really a matter of would you rather:

  1. Deal with MS relentlessly jamming their garbage down your throat

  2. Become a sysadmin

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  • Log5J@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I became a sysadmin, I like being able to learn to get around problems. But an outsider just sees someone spending all morning fiddling with winetricks when it ‘just works’ on windows.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    not that big of a deal if you choose a distro with good defaults ootb. choosing the right distro is the biggest step imo if you don’t want to debug your computer.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The thing is it’s the same base linux as decade(s?) ago, windows is changing how stuff is done all the time.

    So a one time effort or a marathon IMO.

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  • trougnouf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think my grandma was sysadmin.

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  • wanderingmagus@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Really depends on your use case. Like @trougnouf@lemmy.world said, casual users that use the OS as a browser and email client can use practically any distro. Users that do a bit more, like casual gaming on gold-rated Steam games, generally do fine with something like Pop!_OS or Linux Mint.

    It’s when you start going towards the more hardcore users, like really hardcore gamers that play obscure titles or have unsupported Windows-specific hardware, artists that need very specific unsupported programs for editing or recording, engineers who need to do CAD specifically in a Windows-specific proprietary software, or a tinkerer that’s used to the Windows environment, that “become a sysadmin” starts being a reasonable complaint.

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Recently I’ve found Fedora based distros better than debian (like Ubuntu) based ones, especially on “newer” hardware (pcpartpicker.com/user/Hezio/saved/#view=TwZfpg)

  For gaming Bazzite literally installs everything you need for you except Proton GE, although Steam’s regular Proton isn’t bad either for most games.

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• sfxrlz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fedora and bluefin have been working quite well for me.

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