There are lot of people who really believe that, not just an answer help with choice paralysis.

IMO, that’s the lesser of two evils. Start first, get annoyed with nuance and tedious internet arguing later, if you’re content enough before reaching the latter, that’s a win in my book.

I’m sorry you had those issues, I know the pain, browsers have been a compromise for me on nvidia hardware and it seemed like I was the only one with a problem when searching for a solution.

If you ever decide to try again, cachyos is the only OS ive tried where browsers don’t lag or drop frames (mostly, still something ocassional but mostly unnoticeable) so you might want to try that in your next attempt? Whenever that happens.

I’m sad to see so many comments lashing at you for expressing your opinion, but I’m glad to see at least a couple more reasonable ones. Hopefully next time you try there are more people ready to welcome you with open arms.

What drove me to linux more than anything was my profound hate for windows (which preceded me ever trying linux by a handful of years), I just couldn’t fathom how so much money and r&d could culminate in such garbage (my opinion), there’s no good reason for most problems to exist, at least when something happens in linux I know it’s mostly a coordination problem between a dozen of unpaid developers that do it for the love of the game and have no relation or communication with eachother.

I’m glad to see people open to trying alternatives to it, mostly because I don’t think anyone deserves suffering through windows.

It will eventually turn into this

Whatever you interpret that as since my main goal here is to seed conversation, but the thing that I was thinking of when asking was a web gui with some live stats, doing some simple maintenance stuff, maybe manage or glance at docker/podman status and other services, etc.

Since I’ve seen some conversations about documenting setups so they can be picked up and troubleshot by someone else unfamiliar with the setup like a family member, I expected it would be common to lower the friction for basic maintenance but seeing the amount of ssh comments makes me think otherwise, maybe more people use their servers exclusively for personal entertainment than I expected.

My laptop needs reliability to be fairly certain I’ll have everything working when I use it on poor internet, my desktop is always comnected to high bandwidth and has a decent cpu so I can spare a bit extra time and cycles on updating everything when something breaks

Different needs

I did like having the same thing going on on both for the couple months I used mint on both.

I use linux exclusively on desktop, it’s got a lot of problems, many seem unique to the user, I hate that the way to discuss the problems for a lot of people is pretending they don’t exist, makes first contact more problematic for newcomers. Even before touching linux I’ve been hating that attitude with a passion from windows users, at least it’s not a problem exclusive to linux.

Night of the dead. Might be a bit jank but it’s pretty fun if you enjoy the game-loop.

I switched to mint for a few months to have the same thing I recommended my friend, I decided to switch again to something i consider bdtter for me.

There’s nothing wrong with mint, at most you’re missing a thing or two that are part of other base distros that you can add on your own, it’s preference, that’s all

Technically there can be some performance gains on a different distro but then you have to do tinkering and stuff. If I had to keep maining mint I wouldn’t mind at all (and some things are way easier and painless).

One thing: browsers have had some issues in every distro I tried other than cachyos, nothing major but a bit of frame drops here and there

I’ve seen a similar thesis in video form yesterday, I feel like in both cases the author forgot the fear they had before making the choice and think that sidestepping the solution to that part is no biggie.

But we’re talking about people who are afraid of a black box where you type text, they need as little friction as possible.

Hindsight is 20/20

• Obs uses more cpu in cachyos than linux mint, no idea why or what I can do about it, experienced the same difference between manjaro and mint (might be something to do with kde)
• audio breaks, when I boot I have to switch to output devices to fix it. No idea why
• sometimes it logs out of the desktop and when logging in it freezes

Having said all that I’m having the time of my life with cachyos, everything works great and better than it ever has in my experience running an nvidia GPU. I did do some tweaks of my own, wizh I didn’t have to but it’s not bad at all