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Got you, I understand now that you were more countering Linux fanbois than putting down Linux itself. In any case, I'm not sure I understand several of your points and would like to understand them better.
Are you saying that you prefer KDE Plasma, so that Pop OS being based on Gnome is a non-starter? On a related note, if you haven't yet, take a look at the Pop OS beta for their COSMIC desktop. It's kind of in-between KDE and Gnome and written in Rust. It's more like gnome, but has more features and allows more tweaking out of the gate. Plus it seems very fast. It's pretty close to being released, I think I heard December 11th or some date around that?
What do you mean about changing the explicit driver and manually messing around with nouveau? How about the bios setting part?
I feel that Linux can work pretty well for a lot of people. Sure, nothing works for everyone though.
Kde plasma is imparative to run for some 3D simulation programs if you’re going to go Linux. Like you cannot run them in any other distro. Full stop. The kits for these licenses just aren’t widely built in Linux land. Lots of restrictions even by the software developers themselves. I learned this while troubleshooting with them directly.
As such you can end up with a black screen of nothing if you haven’t forced the dynamic display (on new ROG system only) forced onto dGPU in order to force nvidia. and yet I don’t have to do this with MSI. That said , unlike the asus, MSI is too dumb to understand in dual boot to keep the safe boot unlocked if switching between windows and Linux.
it’s not just Linux vs windows. It’s the motherboards. I was not expecting that going in but here we are.
And I don’t know why any of this requires nouveau to be blacklisted but it does
Interesting, thanks. I wasn't aware of any of that. Yes, it sounds complicated, and I hope that Linux can eventually improve these issues you mentioned.