ârecent yearsâ, yeah I agree, years ago it wasnât very good for a daily driver, especially if you want to game. I have no complaints now and it feels great to not be using a malware os.
What distroâs and what issues did you have? Iâm curious because of how good it has worked for me this past year. I wanted to switch to Linux for the past 15 years but there was always something that didnât work out enough that it was a deal breaker. Now, I have no issues with anything.
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" I have a home server on debian and after a bit of setup woes(partly linux still being so reliant on CLI, partly my inexperience with it), itâs been running super smoothly. Have multiple dockers and it has been a joy. And same for the steam deck, it just works. Some glitches here and there with controller support but thatâs just PC gaming. But I installed it on my laptop as well and that was a shitshow. All biometrics wouldnât work, wifi kept dropping in and out, phantom touches now and then. Sure I could have done some cli technical wizardry but I gave up after trying to make it work half as smoothly on my workflow as in windows. And the windows 11 on it is utter garbage. Partly this is manufacturing not having linux drivers available and partly it is linux just not having guis for essential functions. Hope steam is able to have enough of a push to get much needed consumer friendly guis for more system functions. "