Tried LMDE and bazzite nvidia, but I just could not for the life of me get Optimus gpu switching on my 7640u laptop from lenovo to play nice.
I am going all AMD for my next desktop, but I am frustrated and tired with 
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Eh. It’s fine.
I’ll admit I’ve fed into the Linux elitism bullshit, but that’s really all it is. If Windows works for you use it. A computer is a tool for you to use, not to frustrate you for hours on end.
Give it a break, and maybe try booting from USB for a while.. Kick the tires a bit, or whatever. Get comfy with small shit first. I’ve been dicking around with some form of Linux for over 20 years now but my first year or so was difficult AF. I installed Linux, then ran up against a wall, and installed Windows. Then I’d go back, install Linux, still hit a wall, and go back to Windows.
Try it again, if you’d like. A small Linux partition, and a larger windows partition. Boot into Linux and goof around w it on occasion. Try to make it manageable bites before the frustration sets in.
And don’t worry about using Windows. If it works for you, use it.
For 90% of use, the OS is just a bootloader for Firefox. I am however enough of a
that not being able to use the dGPU is a dealbreaker. I had a Tumbleweed desktop for just under three years, and troubleshooting that springboarded me into an IT infra career, so I am grateful.
Yeah, that’d be enough to make me give it up too. I do not blame you.
Yeah. I'm a major linux enjoyer, but genuine dealbreaker-level frustrations and incompatible hardware are like, up there with the best most valid reasons to not use linux. I'll go off on randos who just decide to stan windows based on flimsy reasons and shit on linux any time it's brought up just because they don't want to hear about it, but I totally empathize with people who run into the dumb roadblocks thrown up by hardware manufacturers, proprietary software vendors, etc.
And if I was an absolutist I'd have soooooooo much to complain about with ios and android. But I understand the alternatives aren't viable for everyone, or in the case of smartphones, the vast majority of people. I just wish more people would try or care
Absolutely. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, shit just doesn’t work on Linux.
I have a small netbook that I use for some weather satellite shit that boots windows 7, because the software is the only one of its type that I have found (and is recommended heavily by the software defined radio community) that does what it does, regardless of OS. Unfortunately there are just some things that you can’t do on Linux whether you want to pay for it or not. I have a couple other programs that I use for decoding police radio where I live that run on windows. There are Linux alternatives available but I use the windows ones because they’re just easier to use, and honestly they work better.
I guess what I’m saying is make the tool fit the job not the job fit the tool.