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Installed POP OS. Connect the Nintendo switch to my laptop using MTP. Double click the file folder. Crashes.
Decide to just reset to see if it would fix it. The laptop loops at the authentication screen infinitely. Used a PC to transfer files instead.
Reformat and install Fedora Workstation since Lenovo ships with it. Installed Anydesk and Rustdesk and Wayland is extremely laggy and the hot keys do not transfer to the remote computer.
I think my next step is to install an xorg OS.
That combination of errors sounds suspiciously like hardware problems.
MTP crash, unexpected but not overly so, it's old code. Authentication issues post reboot on error is super sus.
Wayland can be a little slow, but it seems to be ok for all of my ancient candidates. Keymaps kind of expected, that's the kind of stuff that wayland is actually not great at yet.
Put that all together, I'd say you have something going on with the box.
It's not hardware. Fedora workstation worked for the MTP.
I have multiple computers connections at once using Anydesk and Wayland is basically broken. Alt tab never transfers to the remote computer.
Not accounting for any interesting custom choices you made under the hood, the default file browser for both os's use libfuse3 for MTP. My point is, it shouldn't have crashed, there are open issues in libfuse3 for possible crashes, so you might just have hit one at the wrong time, but at that, it REALLY shouldn't have f'd over your journaling filesystem enough to keep you from logging in. A breaking read/write to fuse should not have been able to f your journal over beyond a simple automatic recovery. Most of the design choices in Linux over the last decade have been made specifically to prevent that kind of thing from happening on a healthy system. One can argue that one distro is more stable than another because they take, or refuse to take newer packages, but for your specific issue, they use the same piece of software under the hood.
The wipe and new OS might have just moved the problems to a less visible area.
My primary anger with Wayland is the security issues that broke AHK that they're just now considering. There's been lots of finger pointing over the years, but now that most OS's are ditching X11 support all together, we're going to see a lot more compatibility coming in the next year or two.
I love how every comment tells you to use a different distro lol. Don't you guys see problem? You cant ask people to change their distro for every issue they stumble upon.
And everyone telling dear reader to change distros is doing it from a position of ignorance.
Even the least reliable of those distros should not be seeing anything but the keymap issue. MTP crash, unable to login afterward, That reeks of ram/disk issues.
I see exactly one(1) comment that suggests trying a different distro.
One comment is suggesting using a game streaming application (Moonlight).
One comment is suggesting using the RDP server that comes with Fedora (which jaschen306 stated they are using).
One comment is yours.
One comment is saying it's probably a hardware issue.
And finally, one comment is suggesting a gaming-focused Linux distro - but specifically calling out that it's if they're looking for a gaming distro.
Admittedly I have Hexbear and Lemmygrad blocked, so I might be missing other comments.
My bad, my PTSD kicked in as I read some names that I assumed were other distros. Its way too common when troubleshooting Linux to see people sugesting a whole other distro as a definitive solution, only to have other problems different to the one you're trying to fix.
Out of the 4 comments other than yours, there are exactly 2 that recommend using a different distro.
If you are looking for a gaming distro then try out Nobara Linux