Is not you. I'm just lazy.

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!

or fixing windows by only using WSL and reading the arch wiki

IP Over Avian Carriers.

On your other Arch laptop, obviously. You need multiple pre-owned ThinkPads loaded with Arch at any given time to maintain workable redundancy, just like you need several clean pairs of programming socks.

Phone or use an offline copy

Another option that's available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.

I have a few other .zim's from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There's a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.

Just download it and setup on your own server

https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&q=arch

Whenever I have a Linux box without Internet I just USB tether an Android phone---if the phone is on WiFi then it uses that (not cell), so it's basically just a WiFi adapter that's almost universally supported. (I think it NATs, so in some circumstances won't work, but good enough for most emergency use cases.)

I am a nerd with many computers. That helps.

you can download the arch wiki on kiwix (for android), it's like 30 megabytes

You ever read the man pages for mount?

You guys read man pages?

Total oposite experience for me.

sudo shutdown now

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.

Opensuse Tumbleweed tho

IMO, you shouldn't have to learn Arch just to be able to get a new PC. Eventually, people who like Ubuntu and Mint are going to want to upgrade to a new computer, and they might be in for a shock once they do. That kind of thing is what pushes people back to Windows.

Ah I’m sorry to hear that all I can suggest is trying to look up what your specific hardware is and see if there are any solutions on archwiki or something

I did make sure to get a thinkpad because I heard they have excellent Linux support so it is possible your hardware just doesn’t have a proper solution yet 🤷‍♀️

But I am not a coder so I don’t really know how to do anything but google and try

And then you just go to extensions.gnome.org and tell to run the extensions anyway by ignoring the GNOME version

Don't have much experience but I run extensions designed for 45 on 49 without any problem

Unfortunately for me GNOME without extensions it's unusable and I don't have the patience to stay 3-4 versions behind to ensure compatibility

Edit: I wrote the wrong URL, it was .org and not .com

Lol KDE looks like windows NT? Uh... No.

Wobbly windows is best thing ever by the way.

KDE looks like whatever you want.

Gnome extensions can look pretty much exactly like kde or better depending on your taste, kde is easier to customize and more intuitive. I like that gnome is extension based with each extension being something you pick, many having their own customization and settings.

Some extensions I like: Arcmenu: start menu like windows, kde, etc. lots of layout options, replaces the hot corner big icon search menu thing

Dash to dock: use on handheld, perfect touchscreen menu customizable or (use one at a time) Dash to panel: use on desktop, even more customizable, basically gives you a panel since gnome by default has the hot corner android like app menu (which I also use mostly on the handheld, love the hot corner for moving stuff around)

Windows thumbnails (pip any window, monitor downloads or chats)

I use a lot more but forget the names, nothing really breaks if you toggle use incompatible addons or whatever it's called. You can also edit the addon and change the version since that is what the devs do 90% of the time to update it.

I used to use KDE but so many small visual inconsistencies and oddities would annoy me that I was definitely already feeling like trying something else. Also I really like fingerprint login which kde had trouble with.

Switched to gnome just to try and once I setup my extensions it just felt right. (Extension manager downloaded from regular App Store)

Fedora has a great gnome implementation that is preconfigured much better than any other distro I tried. Fractional scaling was available without configuration and gnome’s online account login + fingerprint login also worked out of the box.

Everything just works but my thinkpad is also linux certified which could explain why everything is so easy. Still, other distros required more gnome configuration work and I’d have random problems with sleep mode, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc.

Also, it brings me a little personal peace of mind knowing the distro is supported by fedora and red hat. That is serious institutional support and I think is just a good thing for Linux generally but also could explain why fedora has an edge to me

Mint us absolutely perfect for folks like me. I want to use my computer, not work on it.

I know you're not going to believe me, because you sound like the type of person who is "set in their ways", but the only thing that makes Mint better for you than some other distro is that it happens to already be installed on your computer. That's it. Mint is not the perfect choice for anyone, because it's not particularly good at anything.

Keep using it. If it works for you, great. I don't care what you use. But we shouldn't be misleading people new to Linux into installing a distro that might not work for them.

Ok, good for you I wasn't arguing

I feel like no OS can get sleep to work properly lol

I've literally never had a problem with this....that I know about.

What are you all turning off?

Ha! It's the one issue that's been giving me the biggest headache through multiple distros. To be fair I believe most of my problems originate from Nvidia hardware and software.

God yes, it was fucking with my partners graphics drivers, and killed most games I have running.

It's annoying, but it isn't feeding my data into the AIs.

This is true of nearly every topic.

all this time spent on setting up a local llm and reinstalling a whole system + setting it up again instead of reading the documentation 😭😭😭

This is how Microsoft develops Azure, except they don't have the option of starting from scratch.

Mfs can't fix a wifi and are asked to install a maintain a local llm server.

Why? Imagine your house's door doesn't work so you have to make a long trip through the back. You keep asking your partner to fix it. They insist they'll get the door working. Either they can't or don't, doesn't matter, but you have the money and are willing to pay for someone to fix it. Your partner insists they can fix it. I think it's reasonable to say something like "if it's not fixed in two weeks I'm paying someone to fix it."

If OP installs Linux on the machine she uses, something she needs doesn't work, and OP doesn't fix it, she really has no other options.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. If OP is unable or unwilling to fix a problem that is important to her, why isn't she allowed to pay someone to fix it?

You wouldn't say its toxic if she threatens to call a plumber after OP promised multiple times to fix the leaking toilet.

Sound more like tongue in cheek to me, but it is impossible to tell from this few sentence comment.

And his attitude toward distros is that he wants one he can completely ignore

Since when did they change the logo from a fedora to... this bullshit?

I don't think this is a rating, but a diagram showing how tall the socks of the users of each distro are

I tried Ubuntu first and my laptop didn't like it, and I wasn't even a little interested in fighting with my computer just to get to use it. The sock scale is probably fair in representing how deep the user wants to get in just to operate. As a Mint user i can say I just dip my feet in Linux to feel the not Windows.

They'll never see your question

OP is the femboy in the picture

sometimes lemmy doesn't mark messages you've read and replied to as read, so voyager continues to show as red. the real question isn't "do i have the notification number" it's "has the notification number changed"

for me, inbox zero will remain 105 until i decide to empty the whole thing

As a badminton player, we have the same length socks.

You really do not. You're all good.

probably around the Fedora level, they're fairly equivalent.

The REAL question is, where does Hanna Montana OS fall on the scale?

NVIDIA drivers still suck on Linux, but each new update has been bringing massive usability improvements lately.

Since the drivers continue to be worked on after the release of the hardware. Some new functionality for new games may be developed. Or bugs may be fixed.

Seems like a dishonest question. Unless you are only using GPU compute professionally with out of date software.

Someone I personally knew almost gave up on Linux because their mint install would have screen tearing issues due to an outdated driver module and kernel, since Mint follows close to Ubuntu's kernel releases which are slow.

Cutting edge and bleeding edge kernels is one of Linux's biggest strengths because 99% of driver modules are in the kernel, so keeping it up to date will significantly reduce the chances of issues with your hardware, especially if its anything new.

You dont need to know the version, but knowing that your updates are based on cutting edge latest stable is what can save you from driver headaches.

That is because nearly all of nvidia's revenue comes from AI datacenter hardware now, and before that from crypto miners. As long as CUDA works without issue, their main clients by dollar volume are happy

Have 2 Monitors with different screen resolutions. It crashes more often than windows 95 when I try to alt tab between applications.

If I had a nickle for every time something "supports Linux" but doesn't actually work properly I'd have so many nickles.

Still to this day I cannot get reliable 6ghz wifi on my Intel NICs. Most of the time I get stuck swapping back and forth between 5 and 6 to the point that it's slower than even 2.4. I haven't tried the latest fedora so maybe that's my ticket to good wifi?

But at the end of the day, there's only one program in control of all the hardware. They're all getting the kernel from the same place, the distros aren't writing their own kernels except for a few tweaks here and there.