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This guy was using Gentoo on what I'm guessing is an older laptop. That kind of comes with the territory. You don't use LFS or Gentoo as a daily driver and expect not to do some footwork... but if you use Mint, Fedora, Pop_OS, Ubuntu/Debian etc... it pretty much is "just works." Of course, you have to do stuff on pretty much any PC, Windows, Mac or Linux. I own them all and know this to be the case... it's just that some people are blind to the things that they have to do everyday on their OS of choice.

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"but if you use Mint, Fedora, Pop_OS, Ubuntu/Debian etc... it pretty much is "just works." "

I just started to make the transfer to Linux from windows. I have limited experience after running Ubuntu on a dual boot laptop back in school a long time ago. It wasnt my daily driver at the time but class required it.

I recently downloaded fedora onto a desktop and it has been a horrid experience. It's sooo slow compared to when windows was on the same hardware. It's so bad the kids won't use the computer unless it's the last one available. I regret the switch, but want the results. I cannot seem figure out what's causing it.

If you want "just works" your more likely to get it with Ubuntu than Fedora. As for being unbearably slow .... there aren't a lot of ways for that to happen unless you're using absolutely the wrong graphics driver.

A typical way would be using xfce's "enable display compositing" setting with a graphics driver that doesn't support proper acceleration.

Not an older laptop. Some 9th gen Intel i7 machine with a Radeon RX6400 GPU attached

Always an excuse... Why can't you just agree that this isn't how it should be but maybe you like Linux anyway?

Using Gentoo as an example of how Linux is hard to use is a bad argument. I have Mac, Linux and windows PCs and they all have fairly ridiculous thing that users of those OS's excuse because they are used to it. I'm not sure how that is an excuse. I'm just reiterating what my og comment said here.

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