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People always forget that the internet was a bubble and when it popped the internet did not just go away forever

it’s an invalid data point. If you have some other issues post about it but that isn’t good data, garbage in garbage out

Overthinking implies an issue with the thought process, can you point to one?

I think you’re underthinking it.

whether you like it or not that’s simply false, when the issue has been long resolved it stops being of any real value and actually becomes misleading. If any issues I report are not current I no longer say them unless I’m trying to make a point about the competency of the distro, however, that point wouldn’t be valid in your case because immutables were in their infancy until relatively recently.

if I reported that I had issues with adobe flash player on fedora in 2009 it would not be useful info to anyone now, similarly.

furthermore that’s not even considering if it was caused by hardware or cosmic rays, if the issue cannot be reproduced it’s likely misinformation.

so no, it simply is not the case that all reports are valid or contain useful information for making a decision, in your case it’s quite the opposite.

There are countless documented issues that are fundamental to non-immutable systems, your example is both not a fundamental issue with a design and has been fixed. It’s not good info.

Right but if the issues are fixed then immutable is the right choice for beginners.

maybe it was a double edged sword years ago.

That’s just not true I did it with this method on a clients computer three days ago.

Right click image > set as wallpaper > both

Fine but still a downgrade to reliability

A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite or aurora if you don’t like gaming is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

Nothing directly, but it’s indirectly quite useful for wine.

Yeah but his patches are so bad they almost all needed reverting so…

Kanata does this and more

Send him a new one personally, thanks

interesting, thank you.

It really is spotify’s killer feature for me, probably won’t switch to something that doesn’t have it.

Spotify has a feature where if it is playing on another device, you can control it with any other device logged into the account, is there any good way to replicate this with a linux desktop and an android phone?

To take a serious stab at this post

I know, every time it’s rare.

Do you know it isn’t? sometimes rare things happen to you.

It’s not a real issue.

who has ever said that to you?

I chose the wrong distro. I have the wrong graphics card. I should have known to use kde over gnome for this use case.

are you aware that if you ask questions nicely and with humbleness instead of like a jerk you’ll get different styles of answers?

I should have known that electron and Wayland were a mess at the time despite being the recommended desktop

that’s fixed and long passed us, they were new and experimental for a while but now they’re mostly the default.

based on you not reading documentation and then getting mad at it in the other post i’m inclined to agree