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Thanks for being that guy so I didn't have to.

The zoo?

Found the Arch user

Personally use PopOS, I got a need to game, if I really wanna tinker it’s always there if I want to. But I need an entertainment OS for my living room not a pet project.

That sucks man. There needs to be less division and derision in the Linux community. Not that there is a lot, but there is enough to drive some people away. It's not as easy as windows to daily drive Linux. It is SO MUCH better than it used to be, but it still isn't something you can just dump on a family member or friend and expect to not get calls about it.

And worse, it isn't the same for almost anyone. I've had good luck with Arch derivatives (Manjaro and Garuda), but I've got friends that tried running the exact same OS and build etc. on very similar hardware and can't get half the games working that I play regularly with minimal effort - even following the same steps I used with no issues. They install Ubuntu or Mint and suddenly it works fine... Happy it works, but none of us know why or what to do if something similar happens next time...

And somehow, it seems every problem any of us runs into are so bizarre (or we don't know enough "likely causes" to google specific and correct terminology) that it seems like no one on the internet has ever had it happen before. Thankfully it's been going great for me, but one of my friends is just having a rough time of it. :(

TL;DR - Thank you to all the actually helpful people in the Linux community that make this journey possible for the rest of us. To the people being dicks: if you have to swing down constantly to feel good, re-evaluate your life choices and leave us out of it.

Exactly. I mean I installed it once upon a time on my server because it was well supported and most hardware I had just worked. I cut my teeth on Linux by using Ubuntu, so I'm familiar with where I'm going to have trouble and how to troubleshoot it if I do. I can tear down and setup a new Ubuntu server over a weekend if I wanted to and transfer all my stuff, but not if I had to switch distros. I could do it, but I'd rather not spend the extra time. Maybe I'm lazy, but I'm no noob. At this point for me, hopping distros is just a matter of the devil you know vs. the devil you don't. I've got more important things to DO with my machine and life than spend it fucking with and constantly breaking/fixing my setup. So, from what I've heard about it, Arch is everything that is holding back Linux on the desktop and everything I don't want in an OS unless I'm getting paid by the hour.

As an arch user btw you got me in the first half ngl

I suppose you want your audio drivers to work the first time too? The nerve of some people smh

Yeah as far as I can tell, the current big user-friendly distros are either PopOS or Linux Mint because Ubuntu is doing the whole snap thing, and also Mint (maybe Pop too, i havent looked into that one much) is Ubuntu-based just without snap

Nope. You're just hearing the loud noises in some echo chambers. Us Ubuntu users don't have much to say because shit just works over here.

It's not bloat, it's for the extreme cold

You're doing just fine. Use. The tools you want when you want.

That's nice. Be sure to set appropriate flags to mount the USB (e.g. in fstab file) to prolong it's life span. The thumb drive could deteriorate rather quickly otherwise.

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_on_a_removable_medium#Minimizing_disk_access

Edit: typo

Skill issue /s.

Ubuntu is where most of us start, so fortunately there is a lot of help! Don't worry, you'll get the hang of it in time. It's not hard, it's just complicated because it's introducing a lot of new things. I put Linux on a whim on my laptop and after two years I have started to convert everything over. I learned to appreciate an OS that does what I tell it and not assume what I want to do.

You will learn, it just takes time, even those fanboys didn't know anything about chmod when they started, and some of them install Arch and end up running back to windows because they started on hard mode.

Just use the distro that fits your needs.

Dude, I've been messing with this stuff for a decade and permissions still get me sometimes. If something is breaking, always do a check on permissions. It's often the issue.

From what I understand, it usually boils down to user having some modern hardware which has drivers only in recent kernel versions. Since Ubuntu lags behind in Kernel versions, it can be that appropriate drivers for your hardware are simply not there.

For instance Asus-linux community dedicated to using Linux on modern (usually gaming) Asus laptops has a huge Ubuntu warning and recommends Fedora or Arch based distros.

I might consider switching to Arch then. Getting pretty toasty outside

I've never seen anyone being smug about their distro, but I've also never seen a comment where somebody have said they use Ubuntu. Arch on the other hand is everywhere, meme or no meme.