Showroom7561

Just FYI. My family has used linux for 25 on many systems and we do not have stability issues. We use mostly Ubuntu or Debian.

Have no idea why your having issues. Could distro or hardware related. Also are you sure your storage media is good.

This has been my experience with Linux over at least six different laptop and desktop PCs. As I said, I've been dabbling for decades, and always have to go back to windows because of how Linux crashes and burns for me.

Then again, I do usually stick to Ubuntu and distros based off it, so maybe that's my problem. LOL

No, you aren't.

For example:

You have a local brand that imports all their goods. How many employees do you think they have? It would all be just sales, admin, and warehouse.

Now say that you have a company manufacturing in your country using ingredients from your country:

You've got dozens of farmers, and everyone connected to them. Dozens or hundreds of factory workers, and everyone connected to them. Your "Canadian office" will still employ Canadians for admin, sales, warehouse, etc.

How would that not be better?

To reiterate: Buying from a locally-owned brand who also manufacturers locally is the best. But when given a choice between a company that makes goods in your country, and one that only sells imported goods from your country, the former is going to be more beneficial to the economy.

Start with Linux Mint.

On this laptop, Mint was even worse, unfortunately!

I do have it running on a miniPC hooked up to my TV, though. Very basic stuff like video streaming. :(

Unfortunately the issues with apps might be the snap packaging, this does slow apps down a bit which could cause pretty much all the remaining issues. I haven’t personally used it but might look up flatpak as a replacement and see if that helps. If others don’t explain how to do this I will try to come edit this later with an explainer or link or something to help.

I've been reading about Snap packages not being ideal.

I did get flatpak working (one app is only distributed through flatpaks), but I wonder if it would be better to move any packages to flatpaks, or even just DEB packages instead of Snap.

What hw do you have in that laptop?

It's the 11th Gen Framework 13 running:

• Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 , integrated Intel XE graphics chip
• Western Digital Black 770 2TB SSD
• 32gb ram (16GB x 2) Crucial DDR4-3200

sudo journalctl -e

This generates a lot of stuff. Anything in particular that I should post?

I did a full memtest and chkdsk BEFORE installing Linux (I'm dual booting right now), and things were fine. Again, I only seem to be having issues in Linux, not Windows (native or through virtualbox!).

Even just now, Digikam is crashing, but it won't let me force quit (waiting just brings up the window again).

and I’m American.

You're not American, you're a hero. 😀

From a “where does the money go” perspective, that is not true.

When I was researching this, basically the conclusion is that if a product is made in Canada (even if the company is American), you are supporting the workers, but then the workers are likely spending their money within the country, too. This is amplified if the ingredients/materials of that product are also from Canada.

Yes, supporting an American company is still bad, for sure. I don't disagree.

But if the choice, for example, is to buy from a Canadian company that's importing from the States (many examples I've found just at the grocery store), or an American brand that makes their products in Canada using Canadian ingredients, go with the latter!

Fortunately, we aren't always forced to make that decision, and can go with NotAmerican products and brands for a large number of items. That's why Buy European is something I also follow (as a Canadian).

Ah, so it is because of bikes! /s

It's actually more important that the product be made in Canada, rather than who owns the company, since it would employ more Canadians and return more money into our economy.

I'm not sure where Pedigree makes their treats, but if it's in Canada, it gets a Maple Leaf.

But ideally, you do want a Canadian-owned company making goods in Canada using Canadian ingredients and hiring Canadian workers.

Goddamn brilliant!

Is this a mensa entry test? 😂