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Moved my three laptops to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorrin. A week later I'm still dealing with issues setting them up.
Ngl, the move is more frustrating than linux nerds would have you believe. But a necessary move and I don't regret it.
If your computer isn’t very old, you should give Fedora a try. I recommend using Ventoy to try some different live ISOs, so you don’t need to commit to installing anything without trying it first.
dunno about zorin, but what's the issues with ubuntu/mint?
And yeah, a lot of the time people will oversell the amount of progress made with linux for noobs, it's come a long way and those OSes *should* be foolproof, but tricky and unsupported hardware be tricky and unsupported.
Doesn't help that some things are massive traps, like dual graphics card when at least one of them is NVidia, removing support for existing things via early wayland adaptation, etc etc.
"But it works on my thinkpad! ™️" Well , not everyone bought a thinkpad/found one next to the trash.
Also from what I’ve found out or at least seen in quite a lot of comments is that those same people who are always saying it just works on my machine are using quite old equipment, like at least 5-10 years old if not older. Of course it works on your computer…
Setting up my dev environment took a while and some troubleshooting.
The last issue that I can't seem to solve is streaming 4k videos in 265 encoding from my cheap network drive. I have all the codecs, and tried multiple different players, messed with vlc setting, no luck. Audio out of sync, or no video, or stuttering, or refusing to play at all.
I can access those videos on my phone and even stream them to my Chromecast, so there's no reason it should not work on linux laptops.
yeah, no clue. but at least someone else might know