I used Pop for a bit and didn’t like its DE either, and also it hated my GPU (a bog-standard RTX3060) for some reason. Got frustrated, tried a bunch of Ubuntu-derived distros that either wouldn’t install or installed and wouldn’t boot (also GPU/driver-related issues, apparently), got fed up, and decided to try Nobara about a month ago on the basis of it being a gaming-focused distro with frequent updates, and I have been quite pleasantly surprised. 95% of everything I’ve tried just works, the rest requires a bit of fiddling but isn’t too bad (had to install battle.net via Steam rather than Lutris for whatever reason, f.ex), I even got my novel-writing software running pretty well under wine. At this point I haven’t booted back into windows in weeks and I think I’m just about ready to start tearing down my windows install and converting my other drives away from NTFS.
For sure! I thought I was just going to be boned because of the GPU issues I had because ‘lol buy a different GPU’ just isn’t practical and the end of service life for Win10 is coming up in a few months and I was really not looking forward to moving to 11.
Honestly I’m not even ‘enjoying’ the OS, it’s gotten to the point for me where it’s just the way things are now, it’s kind of become just a fact about my world. There are a couple things I miss from Windows (reliable Phone Link being the primary one, I hate typing on my phone keyboard and KDE Connect SMS/Pushbullet/etc don’t always get SMS updates and such, but also something like Stardock Fences), but mostly it just works.
I like endeavour os. Needed an uptodate kernel and fancied a change after spending 15 years on mint which i love.
Kde was new to me but grown to love it.
Do you think your experiences on Pop!_OS and Kubuntu were instrumental for EndeavourOS working out for ya? Or do you think you could have jumped straight to EndeavourOS successfully?
but I think I would always wonder if other distros were ‘more’ right for me.
Hahaha, very recognizable.
Your reply is much appreciated as it is yet another piece of (anecdotal) evidence that Arch-based distros can be picked up by complete newbs with success. While I don’t think it’s necessarily for everyone, the almost militant opposition by naysayers isn’t warranted either.
Though I wonder, do you think you’re more ‘tech-savvy’ than the average newcomer? Or, at least, more willing to read/understand/work for your system?
Updates can come with breaking changes. Therefore, the way a distro handles its updates is perhaps more important than its update cadence:
Some choose to outright freeze packages and only come with security updates
Others have (almost) excessive testing to prevent breakage
Yet others employ rollbacks to ensure that the (eventual/inevitable) breakage can easily be deflected
Finally, there are distros that fall on a spectrum in regards to their more radical state management in hopes of minimizing breakage
(Though, I’m sure I’ve forgotten some other methods…)
And, of course, we find combinations of the above employed on the very same distro/system
Sorry for my ramblings, but with M$ sunsetting W10, I feel there’s a great opportunity for Linux to capitalize on this event. Yet, as your own experience clearly shows, the ‘default’ to recommend Mint/Ubuntu/Pop!_OS (or your average Ubuntu-based distro) isn’t always a guarantee for success. And were it not for your insistence on trying out different distros, we might have ‘lost’ you 😭. Hopefully we will ever-adapt as a community to better accommodate the needs of to-be M$-refugees.
I’ve got KDE Plasma on my laptop (Mint) and desktop/server (Debian). It’s SO NICE, it really is a fun DE to use. And while it definitely drains battery quicker, otherwise it runs smooth as anything else. Edit: actually, don’t quote me on the battery
Got any stats on the battery thing? Plasma is fairly low resources, my laptop is equal if bit better than gnome in that regard. Certainly better than windows.
To be fair it’s a decade+ old refurbished MSI laptop, its battery isn’t amazing anymore no matter what. Just seems like when I’ve got it unplugged playing YouTube it drains quicker but I could be mistaken.
This was Endeavor OS for me last night on the laptop:
cp /etc/resolv.conf /tmp/calamares-root-krk32ou8/etc/ </i> finished with exit code 1.
I’m never wasting my time with that thing ever again. I don’t like Mint but at least it installs without stupid errors.
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There’s nothing to recreate. Read what Ventoy is.
Welcome to the world of Linux gaming and congratulations on choosing your disto! I’m curious if you came across Bazzite during your exploration phase?
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I used Pop for a bit and didn’t like its DE either, and also it hated my GPU (a bog-standard RTX3060) for some reason. Got frustrated, tried a bunch of Ubuntu-derived distros that either wouldn’t install or installed and wouldn’t boot (also GPU/driver-related issues, apparently), got fed up, and decided to try Nobara about a month ago on the basis of it being a gaming-focused distro with frequent updates, and I have been quite pleasantly surprised. 95% of everything I’ve tried just works, the rest requires a bit of fiddling but isn’t too bad (had to install battle.net via Steam rather than Lutris for whatever reason, f.ex), I even got my novel-writing software running pretty well under wine. At this point I haven’t booted back into windows in weeks and I think I’m just about ready to start tearing down my windows install and converting my other drives away from NTFS.
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For sure! I thought I was just going to be boned because of the GPU issues I had because ‘lol buy a different GPU’ just isn’t practical and the end of service life for Win10 is coming up in a few months and I was really not looking forward to moving to 11.
Honestly I’m not even ‘enjoying’ the OS, it’s gotten to the point for me where it’s just the way things are now, it’s kind of become just a fact about my world. There are a couple things I miss from Windows (reliable Phone Link being the primary one, I hate typing on my phone keyboard and KDE Connect SMS/Pushbullet/etc don’t always get SMS updates and such, but also something like Stardock Fences), but mostly it just works.
I like endeavour os. Needed an uptodate kernel and fancied a change after spending 15 years on mint which i love. Kde was new to me but grown to love it.
Arch ftw.
Thanks for sharing your experiences!
Do you think your experiences on Pop!_OS and Kubuntu were instrumental for EndeavourOS working out for ya? Or do you think you could have jumped straight to EndeavourOS successfully?
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Hahaha, very recognizable.
Your reply is much appreciated as it is yet another piece of (anecdotal) evidence that Arch-based distros can be picked up by complete newbs with success. While I don’t think it’s necessarily for everyone, the almost militant opposition by naysayers isn’t warranted either.
Though I wonder, do you think you’re more ‘tech-savvy’ than the average newcomer? Or, at least, more willing to read/understand/work for your system?
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I think this is pivotal!
Updates can come with breaking changes. Therefore, the way a distro handles its updates is perhaps more important than its update cadence:
Sorry for my ramblings, but with M$ sunsetting W10, I feel there’s a great opportunity for Linux to capitalize on this event. Yet, as your own experience clearly shows, the ‘default’ to recommend Mint/Ubuntu/Pop!_OS (or your average Ubuntu-based distro) isn’t always a guarantee for success. And were it not for your insistence on trying out different distros, we might have ‘lost’ you 😭. Hopefully we will ever-adapt as a community to better accommodate the needs of to-be M$-refugees.
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I’ve got KDE Plasma on my laptop (Mint) and desktop/server (Debian). It’s SO NICE, it really is a fun DE to use. And while it definitely drains battery quicker, otherwise it runs smooth as anything else. Edit: actually, don’t quote me on the battery
Got any stats on the battery thing? Plasma is fairly low resources, my laptop is equal if bit better than gnome in that regard. Certainly better than windows.
I am not using Mint though.
One laptop Arch the other Fedora.
To be fair it’s a decade+ old refurbished MSI laptop, its battery isn’t amazing anymore no matter what. Just seems like when I’ve got it unplugged playing YouTube it drains quicker but I could be mistaken.