Phanlix

...there's a faq on the router itself that told me how to do it in windows. That was show I got on the right path for Linux. So yes definitely easier when the manufacturer includes instructions for one but not the other. Granted the windows process is significantly easier to get it enabled.

... I'll check it out I'm sure eventually. I just got a bunch more stuff enabled and I'm almost fully functional. The next step is installing some pirated games and seeing if I can get those working. Mostly because while I do like Stellaris I'm not paying $250 for the full game.

There's a new update that releases tomorrow and soon after I'm sure there will be a full install with GoG exes. From what I can tell lutro is the way to go for getting those and older games up and running. That's really the final functionality of Linux I need to work.

I managed to get a huge mod working called BTA3062 which extensively modified a game called BATTLETECH. I was certain it'd be a major hurdle but it worked just fine which is amazing to me that that's possible.

My first experience was with Fedora. The very first install I tried was the KDEPrism version.

You're really not selling me here. You had me worried for a second with the old version of Ubuntu 22. But that's just when they diverged, they have a rolling 6 month release as well and are an active OS after my noob few seconds of googling. I also see dev comments that state that they when they release those updates they're basically modified versions of whatever Ubuntu is releasing. So looks like for all intents and purposes I'm on the latest version of ubuntu. Reading comparisons between the two, this is kind of a slightly stripped down and debloated ubuntu, which almost makes me want to give that a look.

You're definitely not going to sell me soon on a version that depends on command line installation. That's just ridiculous in 2023 dawg. You're talking to a Windows refugee, who admittedly knows enough about DOS and writes his own .bat files and other stuff, but for a lot of things, I want it as dumb and easy as possible. Pop!OS is doing a great job of that.

I also like that they sell their own hardware. It means they have commercial reasons to want their product to work as best it can, and since I have a pretty close hardware profile to their Nvidia setup, I'm actually even more sold because of the sheer level of compatibility of my existing hardware after looking for a minute.

Pop uses x11 by default but can be switched to Wayland at the boot screen by clicking the gear and selecting Wayland. So looks like either or on the fly.

Oh Lord Omnimessiah, bestow your blessings upon the machine spirit of this workstation. May it's sacred code be free of blasphemous error and wasted resources. May the magnificence of it's function be even a pale reflection of your own perfection. In your name we pray, amen.

nordvpn whitelist add 192.168.1.0/24

Fixed my Nord issue, someone did say something about lan discovery mode being a thing, which, as a quality of life thing should be enabled by default I would think, but whatever.

I'm sticking with this distro for a minute, for now I mostly care about text in websites on the big screen and ctrl mousewheel is working fine for zooming a bit for now. Right now I'm all about trying to just get settled and familiar with something before hopping around too much. Pop has been pretty good to me so far. I did try Fedora's KDEPlasma spin, it did NOT me and I didn't like it.

Do you have a recommendation for an Nvidia setup should I be interested?

nordvpn whitelist add 192.168.1.0/24

Fixed it for me, I will look at lan discovery mode, that would be the smarter option.

Life in general really.

Honestly, I don't really care what you think.

Linux users say that this is some kind of easy to use, can replace windows at any point in time, yet one of the most popular distros in existence is definitely not ready for prime time.

My day 2 and 3 posts have been pretty highly upvoted! Almost like linux users only like hearing the good and not the bad.

You should check out my submissions. I'm on day 3 of documenting my linux experience.

It wasn't a simple fix. The drive was off an ASUS router which uses samba v1 and the fix was reenabling it via editing the text files, then the specific mount command in fstab required a 'ver=1' argument to be manually placed in there.

So no my assessment that this is not an easy process is spot on, and I've spent 3 days setting up and configuring linux at this point, all of which I could have done in an hour in Windows.

I will be taking future OS recommendations! For now though Pop!OS has my support because after the dumpster fire of an experience that Fedora was, having something that has a specific Nvidia build (that works, looking at you Nobara).

I'll be looking into surf shark for sure. Nord is gonna be losing a sub here shortly. Especially if it's on android as well. Well... that's if they're transmission speeds are good. Nord is suprisingly fast for a VPN which is why I still use them. Proxy.sh and a few others I tried really didn't cut the mustard years ago.

So confident I'm staying! I have a ton of mixed feelings about Linux, right now even though I have some pretty solid functionality there are dozens of small annoyances that need addressing. I need to get my g502 hero and orbweaver chroma online for real for example.

And, while yes Warhammer runs better, currently it is loading really really slow off the HDD when loading battles, significantly longer than it did on windows. So much so I have questions about if it's maybe in USB 2.0 mode instead of the signficantly faster modes I know it's capable of.

The real issue is is that it takes literally someone who's very familiar already with technology and deep experience in running a computer to run linux even at this level. I gotta say, the everyman would never be able to pick Linux up in the state it's in now.

Yep! Pop!OS is my current OS.

After researching Nobara was actually my first choice of OS! Sadly, I couldn't get the live USB off their site to work, all I ever got was a black screen when booting from the USB. When I did it in command line it threw some kernel errors.

Fedora KDEPlasma was my second choice as I liked the desktop layout. It didn't like it when I installed the nvidia drivers.

Fedora 39 workstation was my last fedora. I actually got Nvidia working on it. But when I tried to play a video from my NAS server it was choppy and would crash when tracking within the video file. Which I'm guessing is some Nvidia compatibility issues based on what I was reading on the forums, which is apparently a known and unresolved issue in Fedora 39 as of now.

Pop!OS just worked. Off the rip, zero issues whatsoever with Nvidia or graphics issues. Most issues have been caused by my inexperience so far.