But I guess my GPU is to «blame» for being too new
Unfortunately yes :(
The stable distros aren't super good when it comes to the latest hardware, but but for slightly older stuff they're pretty great.
I hope you succeed in getting mint into shape, though! :)
I tried both Bazzite and Fedora the past couple months, and this was my personal experience:
While Fedora does have a codec installing option in the installer now, it still doesn't seem to include some common ones (couldn't play certain formats until I installed the non-fedora flatpak VLC player).
Bazzite was very nice, though apps seemed a little slow to open. At some point all apps refused to open, which may have been my fault, but it was at that point that I noticed how incredibly sparse help documentation was, and how many questions (that were relevant to my issue) remained unanswered on the uBlue forum for months.
I think for a new user, access to good help documentation and resources is essential, so I currently don't recommend it for newbies.
If someone comes across an active well moderated community filled with on-topic content of an objectively high quality where everyone seems to be having fun, and that someone downvotes everything in that community every day, how is that beneficial? Why don't they post content they like? If they hate everything, why don't they block the community? Why are they spending time and effort to downvote so much stuff every day when it would be easier, and seemingly better for their mental health, to either block and move on, or contribute the flavor of content they want to see?
No one is getting banned for downvoting content here and there, but if they're putting effort in ensuring everything in a community is downvoted, they'd just be spreading illwill for no good reason :(
A good mod will help their community grow and flourish and have a good vibe. A mass downvoter who contributes nothing else is harmful to those things, and it makes sense a mod would want to defend their community against that.
Edit: kind've ironic that you simply downvoted both me and Blaze 😅
I agree that reaching out to a user like that and having them stop would be the best outcome. Though In the context of the thread, I don't think a mod who didn't reach out before banning would be a PTB (not that you're suggesting that, just elaborating my thoughts).
Hm, just to be sure, you're trying sudo apt upgrade (not update) at the end?
A distro with newer stuff likely would work out of the box, though they tend to be a bit less new user friendly compared to Mint and Pop.
Fedora is generally recommended as the best compromise, but with it comes the need to use a third party repository called RPMFusion to get patent encumbered software like video codecs and steam. After it's setup it's usually smooth sailing, but something to bear in mind.
A non-lts version of Ubuntu should also work, as that's more up to date.
If you'd like to troubleshoot pop a bit more, I believe a newer kernel should be available in your repository, 6.11 perhaps? (I'm not actually sure, I just know Linux Mint has it available). If it's not available, you could grab the Xanmod kernel, which I recall being pretty easy to install, and is very up to date.
Ah. I don't think I've encountered that type of user yet. For the users I described in my comment, I give them a full instance ban. But In the case you describe, I think it'd be appropriate for a mod of the targeted community to ban them, but otherwise leave them be.
Since Pop OS is based on the LTS version of Ubuntu (long term support), it may lag behind a bit on having drivers for the very latest hardware. Mint is also based on Ubuntu LTS, which would explain why it didn't work there either.
This guide shows how to use a PPA (basically like a mini repository with newer stuff back ported to work with the LTS) to upgrade to a newer Mesa version. Hopefully that gets you up and running!
What jumps out to me is that you mention installing a GPU driver, but most of the time with AMD cards you don't have to mess with that as it uses the open source driver that comes with the distro.
How did you install this driver?
As your card is very new, it may benefit from a newer version of the MESA driver and a newer kernel.
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It's possible to hide posts without downvoting as well.
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