• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Installing Linux is a walk in the park whereas windows is a Hilarious clown show from hell with no end.

    As a server maybe. Switching everything on my desktop to Linux has been a constant fight against all kinds of problems and there’s several things I haven’t been able to get working at all. Microsoft’s constant enshittification is closing the gap and it’s currently a tossup between which one I’m going to land on but that’s not Linux improving so much as Windows getting worse.

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      2 days ago

      It’s very hardware dependent with a few problem’s like Nvidia. For Best results go established brands that support Linux like thinkpads.

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        2 days ago

        That advice doesn’t help much when I already have all the hardware. The whole point is not having to buy new shit.

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        2 days ago

        Exactly, I have a bunch of weird issues when running Linux on my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX3060. So unfortunately I w9nt be switching until the situation improves.

        It’s not even about gaming either, virtually all animations are like 2fps, no matter the drivers or power management. I wasted days on this with some guys from the Lenovo Legion Linux discord server, and some with exactly the same laptop don’t have the same issue, but windows runs fine.

        It’s a real shame that, maybe on the next laptop!

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            1 day ago

            Thanks for the lead, but I’m afraid I don’t know what to do with these modules. Do they only work with NixOS?

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              14 hours ago

              Yeah sorry should have listed that, they do require a NixOS installation.

              Pick a DE for the installer, and if you want to change DE the installer will guide you through the process.

              Then it will leave you with a config file and some man pages, it’s a bit much at first but spend some time with it. In my eyes easily one of the better distros out there.