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2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

#13
Ubuntu keeps getting better and better for me. This year I bought an Asus laptop with all the bells and whistles, and allegedly the only supported Linux was Fedora. I tried to get everything setup and failed multiple times, and then I went back to Ubuntu, installed a much newer kernel since Ubuntu distros are conservative there, and that was pretty much it.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install. Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "gateway distro for new users" is in such sorry state.

Nvidia with Wayland? That's on you then, man.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

#19

Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors wit…

> that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full

Who hurt you? Pop!_OS?

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