Yeah, bar progress is sus

Full “It’s my first day on linux” step-by-step guide. Everything from updating, setting themes, backups, installing nvidia drivers is in there. All relevant choices are meticulously explained.

Ok… that’s not what you said though? That’s a usage guide, not a set up wizard. Sorry for being pedantic, but words mean things, and sometimes if you use the wrong words for things people can get confused by what you’re trying to say.

It’s the only distro I know with a fully featured setup wizard that holds your hand through the entire process.

Ubuntu, Fedora, Nobara(Fedora fork by GloriousEggroll of proton-ge), Garuda Arch, Pop!OS. Those are just the few I’ve personally fiddled with.

Highly recommend Garuda, Nobara and Pop!, in that order, for gaming.

Ah, gotcha, makes sense.

Not trying to be a dick, but how is it different? From your description of what you were missing it sounds like exactly the same thing.

Currently I still find it too much of a hastle to correctly run Winblows applications, almost always relying on Lutris, Steams proton or Bottles to do the work for me.

That’s…uhhh… that’s why they were made? So that your average Joe Schmoe, like myself and you, doesn’t have to muddle through trying to get wine set exactly right so that the windows program functions. It sounds like you’re complaining about the solution to the problem.
I guess there could be work done to just make it so if you double click on a .exe install file in just boots whatever has the best install preset, or give you a pop up with options for lutris/proton/bottles.

It’s really unfair. The older we get, the faster time seems to pass, and the less we have to spare. If we’re lucky, maybe we can get 15 or 20 years at the end to enjoy our labour…most of us will be too banged up from the grind to enjoy it.

✊🤜🤛 the struggle is real fam

I also love to fiddle, but the ADHD steers the ship a lot, and so I sometimes end up bricking my install… I’d say it’s a thing I’m working on, but you seem nice…and I’d hate to lie to you.

Or had a lot of time, and have streamlined their setup to the point that they don’t spend nearly any time on the fiddly bits, because they now have next to no time.

So SysAdmin, gotcha

Yeah, I’m having a lot of trouble with my Nvidia card right now in Garuda Arch. It’s a 1060, so about time to update anyway.

Prior to this news…how has it been?

What crawled in your coffee and died this morning? It’s attitudes like this that stop people from wanting to switch to linux. Someone considering it will scroll through, see you being a dickhead, and go: Well…if this is what the community is like, idk if I want to try linux…

Check yourself pal. You’ve got a shit attitude, and you’re doing no one any favours.

Didn’t use to be, I’d get stopped any time I was wearing shorts(the tattoo is on my calf) that hasn’t happened in almost 10 years.

Trogdor burns in the night, that’s how cool Trogdor is.

You saying my Trogdor The Burninator tattoo was a bad idea? You been talking to my wife? Well the both of you can fuck right the fuck off!

I wasn’t bashing it. I actually honestly believe that the person ripping me for using Nobara and having the SP4 as a toy meant what they said about uBlue based distros were better than Nobara, especially since Nobara is built and maintained by one guy.
Again not casting shade. If I can figure out the issue I’m having with it, or give up, I’ll be putting one of the ones you just mentioned on mine and taking it for a spin.

I have a Surface Pro 4, was running Nobara, but I’m trying to troubleshoot a weird issue with it. When I was talking about Nobara in a different post a month or so ago, a neckbeard essentially called me an idiot for using Nobara, and said I should use a UBlue variant. I’ve not used it, but it comes highly recommended by the guy who thought it was weird that I’d buy an old not entirely reliable piece of hardware to just have as essentially a toy…so there’s that.
Surface kernel can be added onto most distros. So if the offerings with it preinstalled don’t suit your fancy there’s instructions on the Surface kernel site.

Just Edinburgh planning are fickle. We got someone on the wrong day, and they decided, fuck these guys in particular. They are notorious for things like stringing an application along for 5 years for no good reason. We’re requesting a formal rejection, a decision was supposed to have been made in January, so we can take it to appeals. Thankfully since we’re in a listed building the appeal goes directly to the office of a minister and not back to Edinburgh Council planning.