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I am fucking fuming
| Linux user moment
| I can feel the autism
| As a Ubuntu user
Can't relate
| I mean, if you use a ubuntu based but you update yourself the kernel, use kde, why not a rolling release distro or kubuntu
| *if you use a ubuntu LTS based distro
| >>829724
The idea was to get a kde distro with minimal setup and maintenance. Neon looked promising since it is ubuntu lts and has direct kde project support. Its not like I wanted to manage kernels, but it ended up like that, lol.
I think I will try manjaro for a change, my colleague uses it for work, says he had no problems with updates or gpu switching, or any problems at all. Who could have thought that arch-based distro will ever be considered stable and easy to use.
| >>829759
Well it has been less than a year since I switched to linux so I dunno that much about older times,
But I'm using unstable manjaro which is almost exactly like running arch and never had real problems.
Thou I don't know if I will still install manjaro for my next computer or try another arch based distro.
Upgrading kernel in manjaro is literally 2 clicks. And the installation comes with the nvidia drivers if you need them.
| wait you install kernel upgrades with the mouse now?
| >>829886
I tried arch like 9 years ago or so as a deep dive into linux and all. It was interesting but broken system after upgrade was not a rare occurence.
If it really is that stable that is a pleasant surprise. Distros I used to prefer became shit, so time to explore.
| >>829927
i remember, but arch has been pretty stable for years. i even know people who run it on their servers. maintainers, in case anyone was wondering.
>>829928
i was being facetious but thanks anyway. i never bothered with them. if it's just a gui front-end then i guess it's fine but other gui package managers like ubuntus would(will?) break stuff if you concurrently use apt-get
| >>f01f21
there's the GUI package manager that easily do system upgrade, but it will just update the current kernel and not changed it.
But there is GUI kernel manjaro tool to install a new one or remove old ones with one click
| Yeah, final update, manjaro worked like a charm. 0 problems with nvidia drivers and updates. Ill stick to it for now.
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| Daily drove KDE Neon on work laptop, each kernel update borks initrd, but thats ok, I can boot from older kernel, no problem.
Decided to switch from Intel UHD to discrete nvidia - nvidia-settings destroyed active initrd and now I have 0 functional initrds.
Not looking for advice, just ranting.