Aside from this issue, Fedora has been great! Everything works as expected, UI is fast and snappy, and somehow the file system seems to be a bit faster too (read/write speeds are more consistent)
my network controller is “Intel Corporation Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi” (after running “lspci”, there doesn’t seem to be any other network-related ones besides that)
Just generally installing things like blender, inkscape, etc. normally takes around a minute on Windows (before dual booting) but is estimated like over 2 hours on both Fedora and Windows (after dual booting) since speeds are sub 100KB/s…
On KDE Plasma vs GNOME, I would like to try both out and see which I like better long-term. KDE Plasma seems a bit more familiar (closer to Windows 10) whereas GNOME is a bit more different but I'm open to using either.
a laptop with an Intel i7-1360P. It's one of those 2-in-1 convertible 360 degree hinge laptops.
I would say I'm open to learning how to work with the terminal and customising the distro a bit, but I don't want to do anything too out of my scope. I don't want to spend too many hours setting it up, I'd rather have something that works mostly out of the box :D
Stable as I don't want to break my system after an update. I still want an up-to-date distro though. I am open to rolling release distros, but to my knowledge those are usually less stable with more breaking changes than fixed release options.
Also, how are the "immutable" distros from UB different from the "mutable" distros? Does it just mean that you're unable to change system-level settings and such/break anything with a mistyped terminal command? What are the downsides to using an immutable distro?
I want a more stable distro, so I'm not considering the rolling release options (like manjaro and EndeavourOS). I've also heard that not many people like Ubuntu because of snaps, why is that?
edit: are rolling release distros stable enough (e.g. will it randomly crash/have weird issues?) and is it possible/easy to roll back to a previous version if there's a breaking update
I've heard that Mint doesn't play well with DEs that aren't Cinnamon (or Mate/XFCE), is that still an issue? Also, do the benefits of Mint (not requiring the terminal for everything) vanish if you KDE Plasma or GNOME?
I'm probably not going to have two DEs permanently installed together, I am hoping to make it easier to swap between the two to see which I prefer. Once I decide which one I like using I'll likely uninstall the other
Damn, you can just choose from the login manager? You don't get ANYTHING like this on Windows! Crazy that you can just swap out the whole GUI of your OS like that
Aside from this issue, Fedora has been great! Everything works as expected, UI is fast and snappy, and somehow the file system seems to be a bit faster too (read/write speeds are more consistent)