Newbies should have no business messing with stuff like this to begin with. They should start with mint and call it a day. Lol

See, most of those things you mentioned are new things that I have no interest in getting into. I don’t know how to explain it, but the fact that you started listing ways to fix the things that are totally avoidable by me and I don’t need to bother with because what I have works fine, is an instant turn off. I’ve messed with distrobox and I hated it, just like how I hated nixOS. It’s just not for me. I can’t get into it even if I tired. Distrobox is just another thing I don’t need nor want to fuck with, because, again, what I have works perfectly for me. It’s different from person to another. You might like to dig into new things, but I don’t. I do other things on my machine. I have one workflow and I’d quite literally get into depression if I changed it, no joke. I like to set things one way and keep that one way forever. I’ve been running Linux since 2018 and have always used Plasma, and have always used it on an Arch based distros(never Arch itself surprisingly). I have had the same set up all these years. I’ve tried gnome for a while and I literally hated my machine (no disrespect to any gnome user or the gnome team). I hope that makes sense. I get that you defend/advertise/make look good the thing you use. It’s an internal justification, I get it, but people have different likes and dislikes.

I don’t want to deal with images. I don’t want to have to be cleaning the system from those images to reclaim my storage. I dislike flatpaks, snaps and appimage on which immutable distros rely. The lack of customization as you can’t modify system files or install traditional packages outside the immutable framework, which limits personal tweaks. Apps availability, not all apps on the planet exist in flatpaks. The learning curve. Having to change the way I interact with my computer completely, I’m too fucking lazy for that and way too cozy where I am. They’re just a burden that I don’t want to deal with and I hope that that’s ok with you. Lmao

I admit that I didn’t know about how rpm-ostree is capable of what you mentioned, but I still don’t like immutables for the other reasons I’ve mentioned. I did look into them and I can’t use them. I like my regular distro

You can’t even install packages using sudo. You can, but they’ll be overridden on next update.

I think it’s good if you have a ton of storage and want to set it and forget it. For me, immutable depresses me. I came to Linux for the tinkering and the ability to do what I please to my system, not to be restricted. That’s just me, though. For handhelds/strictly gaming machine (a Steam machine for example)? I think immutable is the perfect fit for it.

It’s dumb as shit. It’s not completely her fault. From the video, it seems she knew the laptop came with Ubuntu, and she bought it anyway (price difference maybe? They don’t mention why she opted for that one). The blame should be on Dell, they convinced her that it was good.
Edit: forgot to say that Ubuntu has nothing to do with this. They had no hand in this whole thing at all.

Yes, that. Lmao

E-GPU? lol

Finally!!!

Yup. I got the 6600 from Facebook market for $100. Same thing, plug and play. Fuck shitvidia

The absolute best fix I’ve found for Nvidia on Linux is to buy an AMD GPU. Best decision of my PC life.

Synology photo is extremely slow and messy as hell. It keeps uploading photos as duplicates. It also kills the battery on my phone.

Pretty decent piece of software. Been using it for a while and it hasn’t really had many issues. Got it set up with my synology NAS and I like it.

I’ve been using Linux for about 7 year now and only last year and this year did I feel like it’s the actual year of linux

I like how Linux has been picking up lately. Finally.

Hey, at least you’re heard here. On Reddit, your comments are often lost in the mix of the million “this” comments.

Goonter

Like everyone else said. Firmware update and you need windows for that.

I’d try reinstalling the plasma workspace and see if that fixes it. Or even the whole desktop.
For some reason, I assumed you have plasma installed