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.

  • Dotcom@lemmy.ml
    41·
    1 month ago

    Tl;dr - Use Mint, as for other bug complaints pics or gtfo

    Running the mainline distros I’ve never encountered an installation that didn’t “just work”. I’ve thrown mint on basically every device people in the family have any no one has come back to me for any software breaking bugs.

    The only bug I can remember messing me personally up was a few years ago when a bad grub update stopped booting my arch machine, but that was more me than the os’s fault. Which is more than people who got bricks from CrowdStrike can say.

    If you can narrow down anything beyond “bugs” and “basically all distros” you don’t want help. There’s tens of thousands of distros and an infinite number of possible bugs.

      • Dotcom@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 month ago

        What are your hardware specs, are you running xorg or wayland? The video is kind of hard to see what you’re referencing beyond the screen tearing on desktop transition.

        Can only speak from personal experience, sadly. Other than the self-inflicted kind (running Asahi on a MPB for example) I’ve had a more or less painless experience. Off the top I have about 9 devices running Linux (excluding Pis) and have used Linux almost exclusively for about 10 years.

        I should note that bugs and the like aren’t unheard of, for example I had a friend who’s laptop refused to sleep properly - I just personally don’t have any horror stories.

          • Dotcom@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 month ago

            Is it an Asus laptop, when I search those specs a lot of those populate? Those have some known issues and there is at least one dedicated site for them

            Assuming no make sure you are allowing for proprietary repos, mostly those are for nvidia stuff but it can’t hurt to try. Then, I’d try switching to xorg and see if all of those persist. While wayland is a really solid piece of software, it’s still fairly young and has some compatibility issues that you might be inadvertently tangling up against.

            Don’t rule out you could have multiple unrelated issues that are seemingly from the same source.

          • Dotcom@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 month ago

            You also mentioned above that you’re using Arch, and while I personally love Arch and think it’s reputation is way overblown, for better or worse it is a fairly stripped back distro and isn’t going to have a bunch of edge-case stuff built in. Now, typically Mint does so with that issue persistent across them I am more inclined to think it isn’t going to be that wasy but you might try a Pop/OpenSuse/Fedora and see if anything they’re bundled with just magically solves the issue. I suspect a live image would be sufficient for testing that

      • Voyajer@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        Kernel version, graphics drivers, and are you using X or wayland? If you’re seeing it across distros it could be a hardware support issue but I have no idea what laptop that is.