Distro hoping is fine. But there is a certain feeling you get when you can fix your own problems by reading the arch wiki
I love fixing arch by reading the arch wiki, or fixing ubuntu by reading the arch wiki
I set up my login manager for fedora and my grub for fedora using the arch wiki....
I tried to find a solution for my failing marriage in the arch wiki. The arch wiki instructed me that the problem was consulting the arch wiki. Thanks for saving my marriage, arch wiki!
I use the Arch wiki for non arch stuff
That and the man pages
Distro hoping is fine.
Yeah. I hope my distro keeps working as smooth as always. I really hope.
Me: Oh and Mint, could you also add my old printer that I can't get to work on any other OS I've tried?
Mint: Sure thing.
Ha. On Windows I had this ancient Ethernet Canon IP printer. Windows hated it, even with the supplied Canon drivers and network Utility. It always needed messing with every time to get it to show up as a printer on the network.
When I moved to OpenSUSE I went into YAST2 printer discovery. It found the printer right away, and suggested a model, and asked if I wanted to install the GutenPrint driver for it. Yes please. And do you want to announce this printer to others on your network (via CUPS) Yes. Done. Worked 100% with no Canon utilities.
me: hey mint, suspend automatically.
mint: no.
me: suspend manually then.
mint: no.
me: shutdown
mint: no.
....
My experience has been the opposite. I built a new PC last year, and only Fedora and Arch recognized the Radeon GPU and the Intel Wi-Fi. Mint was shipping a kernel that was too old to recognize either one.
Agreed. Out of all the distributions I have tried, Fedora (and its various spins and derivatives) are what tend to have everything actually work out of the box.
My first distro has been Nobara after swapping off windows.
It really is dummy proof.
For those on the edge. Just do it. Windows 11 is free to go back to. You risk nothing by giving Linux a try.
On new hardware it's generally easier to use a rolling release distro in my experience.
You're more likely to have a newer kernel and drivers that support things like wifi cards.
Me: Btw how old are your packages?
Mint: Its rude to ask the age of a distro
Me: well are the maintained properly?
Mint: uhhhh.... Some of them are
I tried basically every distro on my laptop and fedora worked all hardware 100% out of the box + printer + fingerprint reader + all day battery life
Fedora gnome is so good it makes Linux boring
I wish my fingerprint scanner worked D:
Honestly, the only two problems I have had at all are fingerprint scanner (like, lowest priority for me), and the battery continues to drain quickly even when I close the laptop or put it in sleep mode or whatever it's called
If I put my Mint computer to sleep, the wifi adapter stops working completely. 🤡
First thing to do on most linux distros, but especially mint, is turn off everything sleep-related forever.
I feel like no OS can get sleep to work properly lol
Sadly, MacOS is leading the pack with sleep working as expected. This is the most cursed timeline.
If I had to guess it's because Apple controls both hard- and software. Sleep is a delicate business where both the OS and the hardware have to work together to get it right. Linux and Windows run on an endless combination of different hardware components whereas Apple knows exactly on what hardware their OS will run.
This was my exact experience with Manjaro.
Usual suspect, the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card. Milk spoils? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Card! Freshly divorced? Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card!
I used to had linux mint in an old computer and for some reason the wifi didn't work. I asked a couple of times how to fix it but was ignored everytime. I didn't care because I used it connected it with the network cable, but my wife was really frustrated because she can't take it around the house to listen to music and so. After a while of me telling her that I would fix it, she got really mad and told me that if in 2 weeks the wifi of that wasn't working she would pay a technician to install windows on it. So I came back, not asking for a fix for the wifi bit for other distro easy to use like Mint and talked about the reason why I was leaving mint. And now, of course, people was willing to help me fix the wifi and even wrote me a script to execute on start to fix it.
When I first started using Linux, I was told that if I had a problem, I shouldn't give a well-reasoned, well-documented description of what's wrong and what steps I've tried, because everyone will ignore it. Instead, I was told to say that Linux sucks because I'm having this problem and I'd get 3.8 million angry fixes within 10 minutes.
This is true of nearly every topic.
Since when does Facebook have a distro?
That's Fedora
Am I the only MF that prefers Fedora over the other distros?
linus torvalds does too
And his attitude toward distros is that he wants one he can completely ignore
Been using Fedora on several laptops and desktops, and haven't had issues with wifi. Or with anything else for that matter. For me, everything in Fedora just works and never breaks.
The first bug I've seen was recently. Apparently an update broke the 'shutdown and update' function in Fedora Workstation. So now when you press it, nothing happens. Then when you try shutting down, the PC will shut down without updating. It'll update and shutdown upon next boot. Can confirm Fedora KDE is unaffected though.
Fedora gnome was the definition of perfect. It was so stable that it was boring. The KDE one on the other hand….. Let’s say it has never worked for more than a day for me.
Don't you put that evil on KDE, Ricky Bobby!!
If KDE was a woman... I'd take her out for a 3 course meal, split the bill bc she don't need no man to take care of her (or her baby), drive her home using the scenic route, walk with her from the car to her front door, then ask for consent before giving her a goodnight kiss
"btw can you please install the latest nvidia drivers?"
"latest?"
switches back to Fedora
Literally describes my last couple weeks distro hopping
Shopping for wifi adapters is not fun
TLDR; make quadruple sure that the card you're buying uses an Intel chip, and that the chip has drivers in the kernel version you use.
Hint: :q!
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