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What would you say is the most reliable, "it just works" distro currently? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but I've had a lot of problems in my previous attempts to switch to Linux, so I'd like to create a list of distros to try out, and see what works for me. I'm mostly expecting to be doing basic office work and light gaming via Steam.

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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Depends on your hardware. I have had lots of issues with Linux regarding audio quality over Bluetooth, sound quality over laptop speakers, wifi driver reliability (had to disable power save), wake from sleep. For older NVDIA cards you can choose either the unsupported old binary drivers on an old kernel version or terrible performance and bugs with the free nouveau drivers. Wayland doesn’t work with the old binary drivers either.

Getting consistent theming between different versions of Qt and GTK working feels like an impossible task.