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Something fundamental must have been wrong with your install and you needed to do a total reinstallation of Ubuntu. As personally I had no issues with that, I was able to install the Flatpak for Warehouse and then used Warehouse to install/manage other flatpaks (I prefer that over installing yet another store).
So you say, but, the installer…Man that thing doesn’t want to work with my system (even with secure boot off). It was the one that had the most failures with not creating a boot record, failing to install the Linux kernel, or the NVIDIA drivers. Other distros have very polished and sleek installer experiences (rarely issues as a bonus). CachyOS, in my personal experience I don’t find it to be a good one. On paper, it is (I did a lot of reading to figure out how to get CachyOS installed).
This is what I always hear, but Arch eludes me…
I’ve developed a deep appreciation for openSUSE Tumbleweed as a rolling release, that gives me more up to date repos for software and packages.
No real struggles save for me being a goose on the loose and doing something “that seemed fine”, but didn’t work like it was intended. ROFL or SELinux being its strange self after an update. That was easy to fix with an auto touch command and a few others (forgot to document).
I was pretty successful doing the terminal commands necessary to make flatpaks work on Ubuntu in recent memory, as out of the box the distro is Snap centric. Its odd you had so many issues on a fresh install of Ubuntu. Oof, sounds like my legendary problems with Arch.
Yeah, Mint requires some workarounds on older hardware. Its possible, but, probably not worth it unless you’ve got a burning desire to use Mint on that hardware.
I am exaggerating for effect, as all of my Arch experiences (never being able to pass the installer without a fatal error or showstopper) are all I know. Its quite vexing that getting other distros installed and configured is easy for me.
I do recognize the power of and capabilities of the distro. Yet, its never been at my fingertips; I must not know the soft, gentle latin curses required to make an Arch install successful.
I even tried to install EndeavourOS and CachyOS. To be met with failure and the need to retreat to another distro.
I’d recommend Ubuntu or Mint for most new users; straight up Debian only in cases when the user don’t need the latest or greatest in terms of updated packages. As Debian is great, I’ve used it as extensively as Ubuntu…
However, Debian is built against older drivers and kernel, making it stable, if not a bit stale.
Ubuntu is a bit fresher with a higher kernel version (packages can still be behind something like openSUSE or Arch, Debian based distro truth). However, flatpaks allow for more recent software versions!
It’s always a matter of time with Arch…Always. Hell, the damned thing wouldn’t install the 4 times that I tried. (checks notes) Failed to install the boot loader, fatal issue with installing the OS, failed with installing the kernel twice. You got lucky, I swear Arch (LOL) hears the mad shit I talk and readies the mortar to blast my chosen installer with condensed malice.
Any other distro and it’s installed within 9 to 15 minutes, then I’m ready to customize…
CachyOS is still going to demand more from you than Bazzite in terms of computer skills…Manual interventions (because the Arch Team cannot help themselves but move too fucking fast). Not like I can complain about that, given I have openSUSE Tumbleweed installed and am in SELinux range.
Bazzite is nice, as it can be as simple or as complex as you’d like!
LMAO Cursing your friends isn’t nice, CachyOS is for those that are comfortable with Linux…And the dreaded Arch.
SELinux is a package deal with openSUSE Tumbleweed, you’d likely break a lot of stuff if you removed it. Remember, I mentioned SELinux gaming policy, it can be installed to reduce friction with games on Tumbleweed. You can use YAsT Software or Myrlyn to install the policy rather quickly. It doesn’t take but a few seconds, and makes gaming easier. As most problems caused by permissions are solved. Like others have said, you might be experiencing a Proton Issue. If that is the case, perhaps installing the flatpak ProtonPlus and selecting a different version of Proton with the game that is giving you issues might also be helpful. Of course there may be some tinkering involved to get it working…As sometimes recent or new games are iffy on Linux, before Proton ends up fixing a lot of those issues with newer versions.
One thing I can answer is: if you aren’t good at weeds deep with Linux, you need to avoid anything Arch-based. CachyOS is Arch-based, while it is tamed, Arch-based distros demand more from you than most. You will have to always keep it up to date, the Arch team will sometimes push breaking changes that will require manual intervention to fix. It’s not a good fit for you, and will only cause you pain, as it seems you don’t have an interest in learning more about how to configure your Linux distro. You’d face issues with Debian, if you wanted to use the most recent kernel on it (it’s possible but requires knowledge, once again). As the Debian team build against a kernel and fixed drivers, supporting them for years before the newest version.
As it seems you don’t want to get weeds deep, Ubuntu is probably a good compromise within the middle of everything you put forth. As it handles the NVIDIA drivers in a sane way; Fedora requires you to install them yourself and go through a process to install NVIDIA drivers (that hasn’t always went well for me after the 42 update). There are so many programs offered in .deb format that you won’t want for it, Steam is well supported on Ubuntu (just make sure to get the .deb for the best performance).
There is also Bazzite (based on Fedora), which is a good middle ground which can offer you an easy gaming experience handles NVIDIA drivers for you, and has fairly recent kernels available. The software situation, it’s easy to navigate, with a bit of reading. The team is pretty good about helping people with any issues they face. The best part is, as Bazzite is hard to break because it’s atomic, and if something does go wrong…Choose the most recent version that worked.
Personally, I’ve not had any problem running games on openSUSE Tumbleweed, as I’ve investigated the recent releases I wanted to play first. I am curious if you have SELinux gaming policy installed (it helps set sane defaults for SELinux when it comes to games). As I know SELinux is a bit of a bastard at times, requiring occasional configuration changes to make software run correctly.
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Oof, so it wasn’t JUST a problem is in the chair situation for me. I really thought that it was simply me being too inept at the time to, figure it out immediately when on Windows. I’d eventually get it to work but that would require restoring a backup of when audio worked previously. As I didn’t trust sketchy files, my experience having to fix our family PC due to…My parents downloading whatever looked cool, only for it to fill our hard drive with porn and slowing down the PC with too many processes that were collecting data or worse. ROFL
LOL Yeah, I mean Linux has always had audio problems, but I find that I can solve Linux related ones mine faster than on Windows (when I used that garbage). The time it took grew smaller as my knowledge grew. Pulseaudio will randomly shit the bed and take Alsa with it. So about three terminal commands and 5 minutes later my sound is often repaired. It is weird that a billions of dollars sort of company can’t get that shit right or make it a speedy fix at the very least. The troubleshooting tool would take fucking forever and often shit the bed. Touching the Powershell was cursed, but Linux made the terminal a blessed experience!
Yeah, well there is a first time for everything! I am the person that any arch installer fails for, EndeavourOS was probably the most infuriating failure…As it wouldn’t automatically set-up my drives and told me to do it manually. I try that and GPT keeps changing my allotted GBs to every partition, it’s a thing for me to find every problem.