there’s a dolby headphone addon for it and it creates like a 3d sound. all alternatives I’ve tried so far suck ass.

i can’t leave foobar2000 until i find something that has dolby headphone 🥲 and it’s sometimes wonky in wine

internet explorer 8 in wine

wired g502 (not the newest one) and piper working fine. the “second mode” feature still has no way to configure.

I distrohop quite often, last time a couple of weeks ago. I tried nobara, fedora kde, and kubuntu. kubuntu was probably the best but some older games wouldn’t run, animations stutter so bad I had to disable them, themes didn’t work and some settings reset on every reboot. others had more serious issues, including constant crashing. I could blame it on nvidia, but cinnamon works just fine (except for one bug that took me over half a year to find a workaround).

and the taskbar… any time I try and resize it or move any item, it completely borks and it’s quite hard to fix.

imo kde will give a bad impression of linux as it’s quite buggy and the taskbar is way too easy to fuck up completely

there still is a reason to buy nvidia and it’s HDMI 2.1.

I want to keep using an OLED TV as my monitor, 4k and 120hz. TVs still don’t have displayport for some reason… and there aren’t any >50" OLED monitors in 16:9 available, at least where I live. and AMD didn’t get permission to use HDMI 2.1 driver in their open source driver. there is a dp > HDMI 2.1 converter, which sucks according to reviews.

I tried mx for 7 minutes. it installed nvidia drivers and that killed it. off to the next distro I hopped, knowing the problem could have been easy to fix. shame, it seemed interesting.

I have tried most known distros but not bazzite, yet. might be the next one on my distrohop journey since everyone recommends it. hope it works better than fedora kde, it does not get along with my hardware AT ALL

1. the distro matters, but as a general rule, start with mint cinnamon because it’s easy and super stable. different distros use different components and they are configured differently, so if you face issues and incompatibility on mint, fedora may work better for example. for me it’s the other way around. also on debian or ubuntu based distros you have the biggest selection of programs available. not sure what packages you are referring to…just applications in general? it’s as easy as just installing or uninstalling them from your package manager / software center or whatever.

2. ubuntu is owned by canonical, I’d say avoid that. mint is derived from ubuntu, but it has a debian edition so it’s not threatened if ubuntu gets further enshittified.

3. I recently used kububtu for a week, something to note: it’s running very far behind, using plasma 5.27. in my experience, kde in general seems to have lots of customization but a lot of it is just broken. all the themes you can find, most won’t install, animations are laggy (I suspect nvidia issue). downvotes incoming, but that’s just my experience. it may work for you though idk. fedora official and pop use gnome, which I have very limited experience with, but I remember it not giving too much control to the user with customization if that’s what you’re after, also what’s with the full screen app launcher? in cinnamon you will find a lot of customization and it all works. it’s also very familiar to use if you’re coming from windows.

4. do your monitors have different refresh rates? that was an issue, I think that got fixed in wayland. x11 will not be your friend. someone correct me on this one if I’m wrong.

5. I stand by what I said in 3, but go ahead and try them in usb live environment and see if you find it okay to use. btw you can install KDE plasma in mint too, you’re not married to the DE that your distro ships with.

you are probably going to need to set up a virtualbox and use photoshop in windows, I hear it doesn’t work well in wine.

ah, well that would be it then. couldn’t figure out how to get a newer kernel to install with it so I used xanmod…until it started giving issues too. the default one is good enough anyway.

mainline does not work on mint (at least on my end). it has failed to install any kernel, for like the last year.

I fifth it. I want a framework.

I guess there’s difference with the gpu model too, because for me it has been the opposite: mint works without issues and fedora has been a nightmare, especially the kde spin one. last time it killed itself afrer the first updates. nobara was almost perfect but I could never figure out why it can’t turn the monitor back on after it has turned off.

in the beginning I dual booted too and windows did cause some strange issues, but they disappeared when I disabled fast boot from somewhere in windows settings.

also I distrohop every now and then, and a I had trouble installing nvidia drivers a few times. on distros that earlier had no trouble at all with it. bluetooth works great on my pc, which was a pleasant surprise. I don’t own a controller, but I heard that PS4 controllers work best.

all of your existing hardware may not be supported, but in the future you may want to search and check if the peripheral or component you are buying will play nice with linux if you want to move in that direction.

didn’t know this. is it no good then? does it have the HDMI 2.1 driver missing from the open source driver?

I think when systend goes into systemv, a systemb is born almost a year later

for me the biggest dealbreaker is that only flatpaks are available

nvidia user? there’s been issues between nvidia drivers and kernel 6.12, i experienced that too. fixed by going back to an older kernel.

ntfs drives do work in linux, but there may be some issues sometimes. i switched alnost 2 years ago and i have distrohopped a bit. fedora and nobara had intermittent issues with the ntfs drive, it suddenly became unmountable and it takes some fighting to get it back. in mint, the drive constantly corrupts files and entire folders, and the only way to delete those is to boot into windows and delete them there.