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It works, it just fucking works, no upselling, no AI bullshit. Just a functioning OS
I am trying to use Mint Linux. It does not just work.
I am not against lunix, but you do need to dedicate time and effort to learn how to get it to do what you want it to.
It has not been an out of box experience for me. In my case, I am running into a GPU issue where installing Nvidia drivers makes the OS boot in safe mode and I have to restore to a previous state from the timeline to get it to boot normally.
Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions! I appreciate that I got these responses from this community instead of a negative dogpile!
Edit2: Hearing a lot of pop_OS suggestions, might give that a spin if I keep on running into Mint issues.
@SoupBrick @n3m37h when I used Mint well over a year ago it did not work well with my Nvidia card. So it's no just you. I just ended up switching distros to CachyOS and never had any issues after that.
I tried Cachy and in Helldivers 2 any explosion would make my FPS drop in half, no issues with Nobara though. As long as you're off of windows, idc what flavour ya use lol