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What would you say is the most reliable, "it just works" distro currently? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but I've had a lot of problems in my previous attempts to switch to Linux, so I'd like to create a list of distros to try out, and see what works for me. I'm mostly expecting to be doing basic office work and light gaming via Steam.

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[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Only reasons I moved off of Mint was that it had minor issues with NVidia gaming performance, and I ended up liking KDE Plasma better than Cinnamon. Was plenty stable, otherwise.

Can't really recommend bazzite, that I moved to, since there's several issues that have proven unsolvable for me, due to the filesystem veing immutable.

[–] SecondComingOfPheusie@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

since there’s several issues that have proven unsolvable for me

Could you be explicit? I think it's more beneficial that way. Thanks in advance!

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I've posted and commented about it a few times, so I can just link you those:

https://midwest.social/comment/22303985

https://midwest.social/post/42063982

[–] SecondComingOfPheusie@programming.dev 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Thank you!

I can understand why the random long load-times for apps is very frustrating. I don't recall other Bazzite users complaining about it. So I don't know how widespread the problem is.
I've effectively been on GNOME ever since I made the jump to Linux. So I can't comment on Dolphin.
I can 100℅ relate to windows not restoring their prior states. I've used a tiling window manager extension on GNOME just because it handled that more gracefully; I like them maximized anyways.
The audio sink thingy should have been available as a toggle by now. It's unfortunate that it seemingly hasn't. Though, I do wonder if pavucontrol would have been sufficient. There seems to be a flatpak for it if you're interested.
The developer experience on Flatpak leaves a lot to be desired 😅. FWIW, I prefer that within a distrobox.
For GameMaker, installing it within a Ubuntu distrobox would probably have been sufficient.

FWIW, I don't think any of these are directly related to "immutability"; i.e. in the case of Bazzite, some subfolders of / being read-only at runtime.