Do you guys have higher tolerance to buggy bs? Are you all gaslighting people to get higher adoption? Does it just work? If so... How??

I've tried about every distro in multiple different laptops/desktops, amd gpus, basically every possible idea and there's always weird ass bugs and issues and a ton of involuntary learning involved.

edit. Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that "just works" no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?

edit2. Since people are asking for specifics I'm going to pick one random distro I've tried recently and list the issues I've had:

  • On Arch fresh install with archinstall, everything default pmuch:

Immediately greeted with this. thread discussing it here.

I could live with that though, kinda...

Gnome apps in Arch are taking multiple seconds to open/tab back into and freezing, no idea how to debug it.

Could also live with it...

The killer one is that the battery life just sucks badly. about 15W idling with tlp, for comparison Debian with tlp gives me sub 5Watts. But again, Debian comes with a whole different set of issues.

I've only listed the one I've tried most recently, but the experience is similar with all distros I've tried.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    2 days ago

    My experience has been quite the opposite: Windows is the one that's constant problems for me, with no obvious way to fix and if I were to follow the common advice on the Internet I'd be reinstalling it more than I use it.

    Linux has been very reliable for me. Sometimes I look at my uptime and I'm like, maybe I should reboot soon.

    They're always some initial problems just like Windows but usually once it's all fixed up it stays that way. My install is 13 years old and still going strong.

    • not_amm@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      Same for me, all the support I had for Windows was "reinstall" or "have you checked the latest version of 'x' driver?". Now I can actually solve my problems or maybe someone knows how to, there's a big community with real access to debugging tools that may be able to help.

      I won't deny that some people are annoying and don't help at all, but you can always move to the next community or just change distros. I distrohopped using VMs because I couldn't risk losing work in my laptop and then chose one (openSUSE Tumbleweed) which has its own problems, but I now can understand why something happens (or not).

      Also, some problems that I've encountered are only problems for me, some people would not even care about them, but I do and that gave me the tools to help other people when they need it (mostly friends from my career trying Linux).