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.

  • nezach@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    TL:DR Buy a pre-installed laptop of your liking, be it windows, Mac or even Linux-based.

    I guess non tech users would go into a store and buy a laptop with Windows or MacOS pre-installed. You boot it up, go through some questions and boom you are ready to go.

    It appears that you are expecting that same experience with a DIY installation of an unsupported OS on some random hardware. You cannot expect it to be so smooth.

    So what I really suggest is that you get a laptop that is designed with Linux in mind from scratch.

    Go to tuxedocomputers.com or system76.com and just buy a preconfigured Linux based Laptop. It will work out of the box. Problems solved. Easy peasy.