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For home use, I haven't had too many problems with mainstream Linux distros in a while. I'm tech literate, but not a technology professional.

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Im glad people find success with Linux. But in my decade of professional use and trying to use it at home, I’ve got to squint very hard to see it as remotely viable.

I need an OS where I never ever have to think about the OS. I’m there with my very limited time to do something. Not figure out compatibility or updates or why my monitors don’t come online in the same order and same resolution every time or the fear of closing the lid or plugging in a TV for a bit. This month’s issue is that a quarter of the time my wifi just doesn’t exist as a feature and I have to reboot.

I want to hook myself up into an alternate reality where I’m just frozen in time with OSX 10.6 =)

Get an AMD gpu. If you don’t need a strong GPU get an Intel CPU that has an integrated GPU.

Install fedora silverblue. Use your computer how nature intended. You can do everything from the GUI.

If you’re using your PC as your development machine then you’re probably already fucking around with it. Especially on windows (PATH variable is a very fun one there)

I got an AMD gpu recently, as I had just recently switched to Linux. Seems there is a bug in the AMDGPU driver as I will get a driver crash during roughly 1 out of 10 game starts for certain games. After trying everything I could think of I switched back to Windows and have not had any crashing for a week.

I had Nvidia card before that whilst it had other issues on linux, at least it didn't crash.

/shrug/

I've been using a 6000 series, and now a 7000 series GPU from them without a problem.

I've got an AMD Cape Verde GPU, and it also works flawlessly as long as you allow non-free firmware.

Linux has this impression because most people use it as an aftermarket OS.

If you buy a device that's designed to run Linux from the start from say, the good people over at System76.com, you'll get a much smoother experience.

> I need an OS where I never ever have to think about the OS.

After one malware too many I confiscated my wife's Windows PC and gave here my old PC and installed Ubuntu on it (FWIW I don't use Ubuntu, I use Debian since the nineties).

It's been, what, 18 months? If my wife can use Ubuntu, I think nearly anyone can.

It's been literally fire and forget: zero issue.

Now it's desktop Linux, as in actually running on a desktop (with an Ethernet cable), with a dual-monitor setup (I prefer a single ultra-wide monitor but the wife prefers to have two monitors).

I got a call from an ex-girlfriend about a year ago. We had been broken up for at least 5 or 6 years. Hadn't spoken since then. She calls out of the blue to ask if I can come try to fix her computer; she had taken it to the local repair shop and they didn't know what to do with it. She remembered that I had done "a bunch of weird stuff" to it, so she though I might be able to help.

I opened it up, and sat before me was Ubuntu 12.04. It hadn't been updated since before we broke up. The only real issue was some weird stuff going on with the networking, so it wouldn't connect to WiFi. Got it fixed, and I assume she's still going strong with it.

That said, I absolutely wouldn't trust modern Ubuntu (at least back to 20.04, maybe farther) to remain so stable. Ubuntu is now nothing more than a Rube Goldberg machine.

I spend virtually no time tinkering with my personal computer, but I did get one with Linux pre-installed.

Linux changed a lot for the better in the last several years. I recommend you retry now.

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