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    Guys, what's the best Linux distro to install on my PC? (infosec.pub)
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    Yeah I installed that one you're thinking of.

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    [–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    Interesting, what hasn't worked? Im running a desktop so might be having less issues due to less bespoke hardware.

    I ran it on an Intel/NVIDIA laptop about 10 years ago and had a lot of trouble getting the graphics to work well, particularly the Optimus switching. It never felt like it was working properly and graphics were always sub par to what I got running windows. It was a long time ago in computing terms though.

    [–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Kde is laggy in general, taking a full second or longer to do things like open the start menu or other menus.

    Graphical glitches on the secondary display, especially in 2d things like steam or various kde menus. displays are mirrored, btw.

    Volume slider appears randomly in the middle of both screens, no apparant cause.

    Some games that worked fine under windows don't work anymore, like cyberpunk 2077 (which is known to be better under proton than native windows).

    Sound sometimes doesn't work, don't know why.

    To resolve this, I tried to switch him over to Mint, because that's what I use and it's great on my machine so I should have tried that first. Laptop won't boot that live usb.

    edit: another one, cannot open the driver control menu (I forget what it's called) at all.

    [–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Holy moly, that's a lot of issues. Seems like there's something else going on with that laptop given mint won't even boot ..

    [–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    And that's just what I know of from observing for a couple hours every week. He's not a techie, and I'm out of practice.

    I'm thinking either nvidia or dell is at fault, but I haven't had the time to investigate.

    I should try to get the model and specs of the machine, and maybe start a thread about it in a linux help community.

    [–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    Next time you see an error on it run 'journalctl -r' in a terminal and see if you can spot anything specific wiggling out. Should be a good start to working out where the errors might be stemming from.

    That said there seems to be a few different issues with that machine so its difficult to see how they might be related ..maybe a hard disk with bad sectors or trashed ram? You could try reseating the ram module(s) and HDD connections?

    [–] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

    You could also try update the NVIDIA drivers manually from terminal, switching between the closed and open versions of the latest driver can make a big difference. That might resolve your additional drivers access issue. I have found that GUI sometimes takes a long time to open ..

    [–] HexagonSun@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

    My 2012 MBP has Intel/ Nvidia graphics and every distribution I’ve ever tried has struggled with that, it seems to just be the way of things.

    Have it working perfectly now (disabling Nvidia altogether) but involved both an NVRAM tweak and VGA Switcheroo.

    Many distros have failed to even boot to the live USB on that Mac.