• BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
    32·
    2 小时前

    As someone who builds a computer, installs whatever seems like the most stable LTS distro at the time with the longest support period, and only switches to a new one when the current LTS expires, I’d like to thank all of you for being my beta testers. Your support means the world.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    21·
    2 小时前

    I use Arch BTW full-time for work and personal for about 3 years now and haven’t had any issues at all.

    • FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      19·
      2 小时前

      I worked with someone who uses arch on his work laptop

      One day it just died and he had to spend a day or two setting it all up again

      I mean, its not common, but it happens

      • Addv4@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 小时前

        Yeah, I ran arch through college, it broke 3 times over 4 years, basically each time because Nvidia updated. Now that I don’t have the time to fuss with spending a couple of hours chrooting in and fixing Nvidia stuff, I just swapped to endeavorOS sway community edition (and made sure none of my PCs have Nvidia anything in them) and haven’t had an issue yet.

          • Addv4@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 小时前

            Yep. Funnily enough, never really had any issues with the drivers on a desktop, only on mobile, mostly switching between integrated and discrete. But after messing with them on my laptop for a few years, you better bet my laptop was only running Intel integrated and my desktop runs on amd.

  • stinerman@feddit.onlineEnglish
    3·
    1 小时前

    Used to be me. I ran Debian Unstable for years. Got tired of it breaking. I installed Stable probably 7 or 8 years ago and never looked back.

  • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    2 小时前

    I like Fedora for my desktop. Close enough to upstream to get the latest features, but not so bleeding edge that it’s unstable.

  • username_1@programming.dev
    12·
    2 小时前

    I use Debian testing for… 20 years? I had serious problems with it. Twice. Nothing unrepairable, but still I needed another machine with internet to fix the problem. I suppose that is ok stability-wise for 20 years.

  • rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
    1·
    46 分钟前

    I’ve been very happy with Endeavour / Arch on my desktop for the past year until last week. Issues when waking up the desktop, Plasma panels disappearing, resolution forced to the minimum, etc. I rolled back the kernel to the LTS version and it fixed a few things. I can’t complain because it’s not my main computer but it’s not ideal.

    • Syndication@lemmy.today
      2·
      2 小时前

      Same here. I want to ditch Windows 11 so badly, but I tried Linux Mint and I lost half my frame rate in games. I guess if you use a Nvidia GPU on Linux then you’re shit outta luck sadly, as I heard the reason is poor driver support. If I did something wrong I’ll gladly try Linux again but I don’t have high hopes it will work now :(

      • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
        5·
        2 小时前

        You need to change to a newer kernel when you use Mint for gaming. It has a GUI for it.
        But personally, I’d just install Bazzite instead, it has all gaming- related optimizations built in from the start.

      • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        60 分钟前

        nvidia drivers are good performance-wise, you should have installed the proprietary ones because mint comes with nouveau, which does not perform well at all. if you did that, let’s talk about L3 cache. ironically gaming on low end hardware is worse on linux because apparently proton needs quite a bit of that cache. my previous cpu (9600kf) had 9 MB and it was hopeless, current one has almost 100 and performance is not an issue anymore.

        btw pop os comes with proprietary nvidia drivers so you don’t need to think about it all, but because they ship it with their half-done cosmic de, can’t recommend it to newcomers anymore…

      • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 小时前

        I’m just waiting for win 11 to fail catastrophically in me. That will definitely give me the time to install Linux… checks notes… Debian?

        • Syndication@lemmy.today
          4·
          2 小时前

          Yep that’s my plan, whenever my Win11 install becomes broken, I’ll make the switch, laggy games be damned! Maybe we can install Arch so we can fit in with the Linux crowd and finally say “I use Arch btw”

      • Addv4@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 小时前

        What games specifically? Some distros require a bit more driver installation, so maybe that was part of it (was running an rtx 2070 super on linux until a few months ago on linux, didn’t have any issues with frame rates). The poor driver support is mostly on laptops, as they sometimes have issues switching between integrated and discrete graphics.

  • vapeloki@lemmy.world
    1·
    59 分钟前

    Gentoo */* ~amd64 isn’t unstable. If I have to use 5 year old packages with bugs long fixed, then I am getting unstable