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I guess the issue is, that mint is not on wayland yet
I have distro on wayland and proprietary nvidia drivers running (endeavourOS!
- Never had an issue with resolution on my 4k screen
- I can set my scaling in 5% steps
- apps are as bad on adapting to zoom settings as they are on windows (it is bad there as well)
- proto.db is your friend, but yea that is valid, some games only work using a proper window VM, at least
- naver had an issue with jelly yet, but not often stream to my linux but to my iOS(and tvOS) devices.
- i do not like flatpak, because it does not see mounted ISOs per default (and you only have this issue because you decide to use flatpak for which there is no such thing on windows)
- shit just works until it doesn’t (any OS)
- 🤓
I guess the issue is, that mint is not on wayland yet
Yeah, I figured as much. I tried to install Pop! Os before falling back onto mint when installation failed for some reason and I couldn't be bothered to troubleshoot it.
apps are as bad on adapting to zoom settings as they are on windows (it is bad there as well)
I never had an issue with this on Windows outside a few Games.
proto.db is your friend, but yea that is valid, some games only work using a proper window VM, at least
I was so far able to get all of them working in Wine but it's just a waste of my free time to do that for every game.
i do not like flatpak, because it does not see mounted ISOs per default (and you only have this issue because you decide to use flatpak for which there is no such thing on windows)
Everyone so far recommended flatpaks. Idk. Why is there more than one way to install them in the first place?
shit just works until it doesn’t (any OS)
Yes, except on windows it takes on average about a year for an issue to pop up. On Linux, I had issue before I finished installing the OS.
PopOS would require some “hacking” as well to enable wayland, iirc
I think, for a person like you, a fedora spin (pretty up to date, but stable and not rolling) would be best fit for you, but please correct me if I am wrong.
Idk, last time I tried to switch to Linux, I chose OpenSUSE and managed to brick my install by enabling encrypted grub. Now sure, on one hand it's skill issue to click a setting I did not fully understand. On the other hand, why is there a UI toggle that can brick my install without warning? I expected UI to be mostly safe and command line to be dangerous.
After that, I wanted a n00b friendly distro.
I think stability and a clean architecture are underrated qualities for "noob friendly" distros, while badly emulating windows is overrated. I also think you should give Fedora (plus rpm-fusion for non-free drivers and codecs) a try, it's worth it!
I probably should have spent more time selecting a distro in the first place, but I don't have the patience to start over.
Fair, whatever works for you!
Although from experience, most long-time Linux users have "started over" in different distros a couple of times. It's not as daunting as one might think, and it's also a decent learning experience to really understand how distros differ and (maybe more importantly), how they don't
Ah yeah, Pop! OS is going through a bit of a transitional period, while they work out the bugs on Cosmic DE.
Yeah, I loved what I saw of Cosmic, so I figured picking Pop! OS would mean I would eventually get it when it was stable without much work.
It should be available for all distros. The alpha is available in the Arch repos right now, for example.
Arch
I said I wanted to spend less time tinkering 🤣
My point is not that I want it now, but that I wanted a smooth transition to it when it is ready.
I get it lol, but my point was that you won't specifically need Pop! OS, you'll be able to use it on whatever.