i switched over to Bazzite about a week ago, and it has been super frustrating. though it’s not in where you think. the game my group is playing (Arc Raiders) worked without a hitch.
but my speaker system, and microphone forced me to learn a whole lot about USB hand shakes,
ghost usb profiles,
usb cable choice,
what a flatpac is and why people hate it,
nano eccentricities (including how to save and quit, just labeling ctrl-o as save and not overwrite would stop so much bs),
sink states,
device name resolution,
pipewire,
pipe plumber,
pipe wire holding devices hostage,
usb power flapping because i plugged my speakers and my mic to close to each other causing the os to just give up on the both of them.
the timing of when the os asks for usb identifiers, verses when the usb devices are given power
out dated guides relying on depreciated methods and acceptable code used in modifiers to os procedure.
my experience and days of trouble shooting the “easy” replacement os for gaming has frightened my friend group far away from linux.
I just installed cachyos after using mint for a year. Overall, was smooth until i tried to use VLC. Video played fine, but an hour of settings later and i could finally hear the movie. I was an inch from saying fuck it and going back to mint. I debug software for a living, last thing i want to deal with is debugging my personal computer when I just want to watch a movie.
May go back at some point, mint really is so easy and just worked, but the performance and aur are pretty great.
i switched over to Bazzite about a week ago, and it has been super frustrating. though it’s not in where you think. the game my group is playing (Arc Raiders) worked without a hitch.
my experience and days of trouble shooting the “easy” replacement os for gaming has frightened my friend group far away from linux.
Literally every time im gonna go play a game with friends my computer decides to bw stupid, and it puts them all off linux even more lol.
Huh, most people actually like Flatpak, and for good reasons too.
i could not get them to play nice with the hardware, pipewire, or each other. and they don’t like being messed with
If you know what flatseal is and how to set permissions, it gets a lot better.
nano is the Fishcer Price’s My First Text Editor and you’re expected to quickly graduate to something that sucks way more
I tried to like vim. But nano just works.
i can only imagine the horrors of what button combination i need to save and close and get my terminal back on the next one…
This is actually an ancient UNIX trope.
q :q :q! ^Z # kill -9 $!from what i gather that means you reach for the 9mm when you don’t know how to say please?
Kill all 9 lives
I just installed cachyos after using mint for a year. Overall, was smooth until i tried to use VLC. Video played fine, but an hour of settings later and i could finally hear the movie. I was an inch from saying fuck it and going back to mint. I debug software for a living, last thing i want to deal with is debugging my personal computer when I just want to watch a movie.
May go back at some point, mint really is so easy and just worked, but the performance and aur are pretty great.
My sound doesnt work on cachy either.
That sucks! At least for me, mint just worked.