My laptop with 4gb of ram and atom processor came with Windows 10 (I purchased it intending to put Linux on it). I tried it out just to see how W10 worked on it and it was absolutely excruciating and borderline unusable, and I was coming from a Pentium M with 512mb of ram. I have no idea how anyone would have thought it could be a functional system running that.
Uhh, I'm gonna disagree with this. My family is 1700 miles away, without high speed rail I'm not doing that trip if there aren't flights. It's still a long ass trip by high speed rail. I might be willing to do that trip on regular rail if corporations didn't fuck it up for passengers and if it was direct, very few stops, and activities were available on board. That's a long ass time to be travelling on the ground.
For the Europeans out there, that's like going from Paris to Kyiv, and I'm not even crossing the whole country.
I do agree that there should be rail between large cities, distances under 400 miles should be able to be done by rail.
I don't think it's specifically for servers, it's just their immutable distro. I tried it out a smidge on my cheap laptop, it was interesting. My laptop only has 32gb, so anything immutable really wasn't a good fit for it. I wasn't really a big fan of everything I add to it being flatpaks, either.
I think I have enough experience with Linux at this point that an immutable distro is more of an inconvenience to me. I don't think it would have saved me from my predicament any more than using a non-rolling distro, since this is an OS update, not anything to do with anything I did. Really my biggest setback is that this server is working just fine, so my laziness is letting me not spend a few hours to redo it right and I'm pretty sure I could just run yast and reconfigure the networking and be fine. It really was just going to be a practice/dev server so I could see if I could set things up in an environment that didn't have many handholding tutorials, the leap server it was dev for ended up moving to Debian because it started running things that I actually wanted to be sure were stable. In my infinite wisdom, this one took over the leap server's job without changing the OS.
Really, I could have just swapped drives since I was rebuilding in Debian anyway, but Homie don't play like dat.
Looks to me like Nobara might be what you want, it's fedora based and is tailored toward gaming. I haven't used it myself, so I can't comment on how it's different from fedora, but Fedora itself is pretty darn solid
I had a BSoD on Windows that googling said "could be hardware or software related". Thanks, I guess. Nothing in the logs even suggested anything happened except the several hours gap between other useless logs.
I'm stuck (probably not, though) on an old tumbleweed version because something in my networking setup gets borked when I upgrade on a headless server I have running (I know, tumbleweed isn't for servers, this is why). I just reverted to the snapshot it made before upgrading and bam, like nothing happened.
I should get that worked out, but it works fine, so...
What sort of "simple" things did you have trouble with in Mint?
You could try popOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu. But without knowing what you struggled with, Mint should still be the best choice of you're new. Your troubles could just be the desktop environment you picked, or enabling third party/proprietary repositories. Or they could be a legit issue that is easily fixed using a different distro.
I'm 38, about a year or two ago was when "drink enough water" stopped working. It'll make you more functional, but that hangover ain't going away until it decides it's time to go, not you.
Inca II was my jam. I honestly have no idea what the plot was except the incas had a space ship, there were also boomerang space ships, and some sort of puzzle in tibet that I'm not sure if I solved it because it wasn't an incan space battle.
I barely got an opportunity to try out Solaris/opensolaris (honestly I don't remember which) before Oracle got involved. It gave me the impression of being a no nonsense, get shit done workstation OS. It was clean, it had enough frill that anyone could sit down in front of it and start working, but it wasn't showy. I wasn't a business person doing business things, and I was really just looking around for a good office suite on a stable OS that I could make it through college with. I really liked the "this is where work gets done" feel of it.
If my experience with my step kid at 8 is true, he lost his phone 2 months ago and now has a smartwatch because "if it's attached to him, he can't lose it, right?".
The charger will be under seat cushions within an hour, even though there's no reason to ever move it from the spot in his room.
I haven't seen much asking for Bernie. Lots of praising Bernie for doing what's right and we should have had him in 2016, but I see a lot more asking for AOC.
My laptop with 4gb of ram and atom processor came with Windows 10 (I purchased it intending to put Linux on it). I tried it out just to see how W10 worked on it and it was absolutely excruciating and borderline unusable, and I was coming from a Pentium M with 512mb of ram. I have no idea how anyone would have thought it could be a functional system running that.