What are we going to do about it?

Quit whining about it and make a good community outside of those.

Be a good community member yourself.

I see myself coming less and less to Lemmy due to how monotopic this place is. And how aggressively stupid people here can be.

Thank you. I’ll keep this in mind next time I upgrade.

I’ve tried all of those. They solve some issues but introduce some newer issues.

Currently I’m fighting Debian trying to fix an issue where all flatpaks take about 5 seconds to open. I can’t even find a similar case on google.

how’s the battery life on thinkpads?

What are your hardware specs, are you running xorg or wayland? The video is kind of hard to see what you’re referencing beyond the screen tearing on desktop transition.

6900hs, 6800s / 680m on that laptop and wayland. I found a “solution” to that in the arch forums but one that wrecks battery life at the same time.

I havent tried atomic distros yet, but they just seem painful to use. Getting different applications to interact with each other just seems difficult in them.

I see. Since it’s a newish post I’ll update the main body with the issues I’m having with one distro for example.

Indeed. I’ll prob try a mac next time I swap laptops.

Tl;dr - Use Mint, as for other bug complaints pics or gtfo

I’ve recorded this video on Arch. But I was having the exact same issue on Mint. Also sadly on anything Debian related flatpaks are SLOW for me, like slow slow slow.

And this kind of comment is what I find so weird, it’s such a diametrically opposite experience from what happens to me. On a fresh arch install currently: Those screen artifacts, gnome apps(terminal ,nautilus etc) just randomly freeze. Usually when tabbing back to them. And quite a few crashes all around.

Currently on desktop 3700x, 6700 xt, and laptop 6900hs 6800s + 680m. all amd both. But I’ve used many other setups and they’ve all had weird problems.

I’ve tried it, currently getting screen artifacts unless i follow these instructions which only bring more questions up for me. Because on mint I’m not using that kernel, it shouldn’t be happening but yet here we are. Weird bugs.

Plus, on anything debian related flatpaks take about 5 seconds to open every time. And I have no clue how to debug that.

It’s very strange that you’ve made a post about bugs but chose not to list any of the bugs.

Sorry if I made it seem like the post was about bugs. It’s about me asking what is the most seamless experience you can have on Linux?

I’m not particularly trying to post a laundy list of bugs that I’m trying to fix, because frankly I don’t want to fight them tooth and nail.

I’m just trying to figure out if people put up with that and it’s not a problem for them, or if there’s a setup that you dont have to worry about that.

Have you ever gotten to a stable and working point? If so, what changed?

I have, and what changed? Random new issues just pop up and we are back at square one.

What distros have you tried?

Like, literally all of them.

What bugs have you found?

All sorts of weird bugs in different distros. it would be much easier if you asked what bugs happened in a specific distros.

But what I wanted to know is more like: I’m not trying to solve every single little bug I’ve encountered so far. What I’m looking for is a less buggy experience, does it exist in the Linux world?

I miss not having to worry about whether any app or game would be easy to install and work flawlessly.

edit. also printing in general, situation is so dire that I just send whatever I want to print to my phone and print it from there these days.

Love gnome with dash to panel. Zero complaints.

No manufacturer support. But zephyrus g14 (2022) is my favorite laptop ever. Very few issues with Linux.

Indeed. That’s the opposite of what I’m looking for though. That’s complicated and apparently breaks ?

I’m currently dual booting. Which works fine. I was wondering if there was an easier way though.

Same. And it’s not just the amount of content.

The amount of times I’ve had a reply with someone obviously trying to be pedantic and argumentative saying “define common thing” is off the charts.

In think it comes from flathub not having many cli applications in it. I’d love to drop snaps for Flatpak only. But I can get so many snaps that aren’t on flathub it’s crazy.