im currently using windows 11 on msi gf63 laptop. if i used linux i would use ubuntu,bec it seems like the easiest thing.
i game,i use brave browser,i pirate games and software. i also like that my hoarded pirated binaries of games and software will work even years later on windows without too much effort.
i use an hp printer,and need to be able to use it on linux.
i expect to be able to use the laptop and not think about the os too much,meaning i wont distro hop or try to customize it too much. im fine with the terminal,my goal of using linux is being far from malware.


Thanks for reading through this. No Nvidia card. it’s AMD Ryzen 7 CPU with integrated Radeon Vega 10 GPU. 20 GB system memory with 2 GB allocated for the video card. I didn’t install anything for graphics, I just let Fedora do its defaults.
I looked up the codecs to get the specifics. This was the first thing I found when having Firefox + YouTube issues: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/openh264/
Installed that and it wasn’t any better. Then had to figure out how to remove it and try the rpmfusion stuff (whatever that is).
Here’s the output of systemd-analyze critical-chain:
The time when unit became active or started is printed after the "@" character. The time the unit took to start is printed after the "+" character. graphical.target @12.832s └─sddm.service @12.832s └─plymouth-quit.service @12.727s +98ms └─systemd-user-sessions.service @12.681s +20ms └─remote-fs.target @12.659s └─remote-fs-pre.target @8.131s └─nfs-client.target @8.130s └─gssproxy.service @8.044s +85ms └─network.target @8.037s └─wpa_supplicant.service @8.002s +33ms └─basic.target @4.810s └─dbus-broker.service @4.627s +137ms └─dbus.socket @4.607s +1ms └─sysinit.target @4.596s └─systemd-resolved.service @4.452s +143ms └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service @3.827s +613ms └─local-fs.target @3.814s └─boot-efi.mount @3.692s +119ms └─boot.mount @3.552s +118ms └─systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.service @3.206s +170ms └─dev-disk-by\x2duuid-e61e388b\x2d6938\x2d4f16\x2d9746\x2dce2c084d3f44.deviceAnd here’s the output of systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg (had to covert to jpg to allow the upload):