IngeniousRocks (They/She)

This is a bit late since you’ve already gotten rid of it but there IS s Samsung unified Linux driver for printers.

The only thing that will get me back on windows is the Net Yaroze SDK which came out for windows 95-XP, I have a period accurate airgapped PC for that stuff though.

I don’t care about my distro. The choice I make when decicing on a distribution is entirely based on use case. I have LMDE on my server. I have Mint Cinnamon on my macbook. I use arch when I’m doing minimal installs for basic functionality. I don’t have a distro of choice for ARM, I’ve used rasbian and I use muOS on my rg35xxsp. I’ve been looking at learning gentoo and deploying that for raspberry pi as I have some projects in mind for some micro arcade cabinets and want as little overhead as possible in regards to background processes

Anyone know if this fixes MSAA? I’m kinda sick of having to override my antialiasing in the Nvidia Xconfig app to force fxaa

AMD drivers are open source and built into the kernel. You should have very little problems with team red on linux. From what I’ve seen the new Intel cards work pretty well too.

Nvidia is known for their problems on Linux.

It is possible to tighten security to the point where the system is unusable. Security and convenience must be balanced. The trick is to create a secure and useful system. ——The Arch Wiki, Security

Seems OP wants to play online only games, disconnecting might make that impossible.

My personal server is how I handle my backups. Currently, they would not be considered good, safe backups as I only have one copy of each but my partner is getting my 16TB of storage to throw into a RAID10 array to migrate the server over so I have actual parity data and can recover things that get borked.

Presently I have 5 TB of storage strewn across a few HDDs, SSDs, and a 0.5TB SD card. Its jank and its held together with spit and prayers, but its mine and I made it.

Obviously, nothing of import gets stored on my server, just backups of my physical media collection, which I still have access to and can backup again if need be.

I don’t even like fedora ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just thought it’d be easier.

Buddy I’ve got my pronouns in my username please don’t misgender me.

Additionally, your response is needlessly hostile. You’ve offered no additional information and have chosen my comment to be a naysayer on presumably only because it is the top comment on the post. You’ve contributed nothing but vitriol to this thread.

I couldn’t give two shits what distros people use, and I’m not a fucking shill. OP wanted a suggestion, I gave 4. I used tobhse Fedora because it’s easy, with a large community, and with the bleeding edge release cycle the newest libraries became available more easily without enabling testing repositories or using sketchy PPAs that haven’t been vetted.

If OP weren’t noob, and weren’t someone who has already broken a mint install three times I’d have recommended that use something Debian based or Arch based, but they are, so I didn’t.

Historically yes, but this appears to not exactly be the case any longer.

Reference https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues/284

There does appear to be a way to do it, from a cursory glance at the above it seems that Fedora and Windows need to have separate EFI partitions, I’m not all that invested though (I don’t use these distros nor do I dual boot) so I don’t really care to look much deeper.

People seem to love bazzite, is it all its cracked up to be?

I’m happy with my lmde htpc/server/gamingrig/clusterfuck so I’m not planning on changing, but I’ve been in the market for a handheld gaming PC and its been on my list to try.

LMDE (mint sans ubuntu) user here, gaming is a dream, but sometimes a nightmare. You may need eventually to manually update the graphics card driver If you’re on Nvidia, as the debian repos it pulls from are hella out of date. Otherwise, smooth sailing.

You’ll likely only encounter problems on native games, Feral ports specifically seem to assume people have a libraries that they don’t, so I often find myself launching their games in a terminal a million times to figure out what libraries are missing and manually link them or just copy them into the game lib folder.

OP specifically declines to use Linux mint, per their final point in their post. As a 2 decade user who is currently using Mint, OP is right. The windows experience is so handholdey that new users often aren’t familiar with even HOW to research to fix their problems. Mint, a distribution that gives you training wheels but will not hold your hand is not ideal for someone who has already broken it several times, doing activities they didn’t feel were necessary to share.

OP needs an immutable distro.

Based on your last paragraph, you might fall in the supernoob catergory. You’ll want an immutable distribution, you can’t break those Unless you tell it to let you break it.

As a windows user, you’ll find familiarity in Fedora Kionite.

If you prefer a touchscreen oriented experience consider Fedora Silverblue.

There’s a few other options on the page I’m linking, I haven’t tried and therefore can’t recommend either of the others.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

Edit: my formatting was 🗑️

Edit 2, electric boogaloo:

OP in your post you state you want Wallpaper Engine to work, unfortunately, you’ll have issues there. Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish with wallpaper engine you may be able to do the same using KDE Plasma. I personally use a VLC command line call to enable animated wallpapers on my rig, there’s not exactly a standard for it on Linux so many of the solutions you find will be clunky. Just remember if you go around messing with your xorg.conf file you need to have a backup of it so you can undo changes easily in a terminal.

You’re welcome to DM me if you need assistance.

Please confirm that sleep is configured correctly for your hardware.

Read this article from the Arch Wiki then refer to Section 3 after you’ve familiarized yourself with the content to make the changes necessary.

Many hardware implementations of the various sleep types are borked due to workarounds for the way Windows would prefer to handle sleep. The information in this article should allow you to mitigate this.

Can’t use libreOffice and translate the Q code into whatever language libreCalc uses?

This is completely unrelated to your problem:

The calibre website recommends extremely strongly against using their software packaged by anyone else other than calibre themselves as they are often (see usually) buggy or extremely outdated.

It may be worth it to manually “install” the app from their website somewhere in your ~/.local/ and see if you have less issues using the official package.

I’ve found that a lot of apps with touch gestures need Touchégg to work correctly, could be worth a shot to give it an install. I use a converted macbook, and for any gestures to work with the apple trackpad at all I have to have touchegg, my partner has it on her converted pixelbook go to make the trackpad not feel awful there too.

https://github.com/JoseExposito/touchegg

I’m too dumb to set up Wayland on Nvidia and honestly don’t really care to. My laptop has an intel haswell-ult so it works with Wayland ootb and all the apps I use on it (literally just calibre, falkon, lapce and libreoffice Writer) work fine.

Edit: spelling

How would I check that?

Edit: actually, Lemme just rtfm