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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A couple weeks ago I attempted to switch over to Linux. Tried installing both Cachyos and Nobara. It was kind of a shit show, nothing worked correctly, stuff was erroring out and crashing left and right, and after a couple days I gave up.

Today I went ahead and installed windows 11. There were some issues... It wouldn't recognize my CD key, and I accidentally wiped a partition from the wrong drive. But as for the os itself, I spent a few hours getting things set up, and it's not as horrible as I thought it would be. I was able to simply turn off most of the shit like copilot and recall, and all the advertisements, and I pretty much have it working as I want it to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you ever give it a go again, I'd suggest trying to get used to software that you'd need to use on Linux (aka, alternatives that won't work well outside of windows). I already used a lot of free openscource software that works on Linux like libre office, krita, kdenlive, obs, when i used windows. That made swapping a lot more comfortable. Next I really recomend something like Linux mint, or popos (look up screenshots and decide witch one looks cooler) then, if you are enjoying it after a few months, give arch or nixos a try, or don't if the distro you use does what you want, and you found ways to make it work for you, then stick with it. I hope the next time you give it a try works out better for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Da Vinci Resolve has native Linux builds though and should work. And does on Ubuntu based, Rocky Linux, arch and NixOS. I'm not sure about Nobora (Fedora based).

Though it's hard to know what went wrong with vague descriptions like "everything was crashing"..

[–] RedditRefugee69 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Linux for years and I've never heard of the distros you just named.

I'm not surprised at all that you had trouble using niche distros. Try something more popular with good documentation so you have a community supporting you with bug testing, guides, and Q+As when people run into issues you might run into later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My priorities are being able to run Davinci resolve and Steam games. Nobara ticks those boxes while advertising itself as user friendly. I have heard too many stories of people having trouble getting this stuff running on something like Linux mint, so I didn't go in that direction. I need to do more with my computer than just view web sites or write code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

maybe try bazzite? i've found it to be a better experience than nobara and steam games run fine for me, aside from the obvious big titles that have anticheat issues.

they have a guide for davinci resolve, too: https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/davinci-resolve-setup-guide/1197

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't really feel like going down the rabbit hole of trying a hundred different distros to maybe find one that works. My experiences with those two were that things were completely broken, randomly. Like just trying to boot the USB installer would lock up half the time, the installer itself would fail partway through most of the time, when things got fully installed, trying to update or install new things would just fail randomly. The kde desktop would crash just from me changing settings in the kde menus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

sounds like you've made up your mind. wnjoy windows 11!

[–] RedditRefugee69 1 points 2 months ago

I would try Ubuntu in your shoes, personally. It's got downsides but it's definitely plug and play. I don't know what metrics distrowatch uses to rate distros but it's widely known that Ubuntu is user friendly as hell.

[–] RedditRefugee69 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where are you getting these distros from? Most popular distros do more than "just view websites or write code."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They are ranked number 3 and 13 on distro watch, so they are hardly unknown. And lots on Linux YouTubers were talking about how great they were.