I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

  • throwawayish@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    OP, my request/suggestion would be the following:

    In order for us to better help you consider the following:

    • Inform us on your hardware specs. You could even rely on the software found on linux-hardware.org for a (so-called) probe.
    • Inform us on which distros you’ve tried. If possible, for each one of them list the following:
      • What exactly didn’t work?
      • Did you try any troubleshooting?

    On a more general note, you shouldn’t feel the need to switch distros even if other distros might offer more convenient solutions. When I was new to Linux, I wanted to rely on the Chromium browser for cloud gaming through Nvidia GeForce NOW’s web platform. For some reason, I just wasn’t able to get this to work on Fedora. Somehow, while still being mostly a newbie, I stumbled upon Distrobox and decided to give it a go in hopes of allowing me to overcome the earlier challenge by benefiting of the ArchWiki and the AUR through an Arch distrobox. And voila; -without too much effort- it just worked.