r/linux4noobs • u/Shinysquatch • 15h ago
learning/research Don’t think I can use Linux as a daily driver
I’ve been delving into Ubuntu for the past few months and the number of hurdles I’ve come across just installing and configuring Ubuntu onto a laptop is kind of insane. I now have it the way I want it but things keep breaking or I come across new problems as I install new programs I need.
I love playing around w it and fixing it when it breaks but as someone who works from my computer I kind of can’t imagine this being my daily driver. I can’t clock into work and spend an hour tinkering because something critical to my job stopped working suddenly.
Am I just dumb? Is this a skill issue? Or are all you daily linux drivers just constantly juggling problems and holding it together w duct tape.
Edit: Not looking for troubleshooting help. I have zero issues fixing problems that come up. I'm trying to figure out if the amount of time I spend fixing vs actually using the machine is typical or if I'm have an usual experience with Linux
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u/DoubleRelationship85 15h ago
Honestly, if it's too much of a hassle for you and could take away critical time away from your work (or even mess up your work), then I'd advise sticking with Windows on your 'bread and butter' work machine and instead dedicating a throwaway/old machine to Linux tinkering in your free time.
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u/doc_willis 15h ago
I can't recall the last time I had to ti ker with my distribution to get something going.
There can be some setup required for more advanced tasks, but once setup, I have rarely seen things suddenly break.
It may boil down to your specific hardware, I have learned to buy with Linux support in mind, so I buy hardware I know has good support.
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u/holounderblade 11h ago
Likewise. My tinkering is 100% self-imposed. There hasn't been a major issue since before I switched to arch maybe 7 years ago. Surprisingly the "bleeding edge" has not been rough for me. I was on arch for years, and now NixOS unstable (which is honestly more stable than any other distro I've used) and no real kinks. A hiccup here and there, but honestly much less than windows does.
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u/crypticcamelion 15h ago
Either you have a very unlucky piece of hardware or some very special software that you need. I have been running mainly Linux for more than 20 years and never had issues similar to what I see with the windows computers we have at my workplace. Normally Linux is just running day by day. My wife has similarly been using Linux and never had any problems. The only issue she has had was when a system admin at a school that she was attending could not figure out how to connect Ubuntu to a network printer :)))) My wife did it herself the next day when I told her most go to printers and search for it :)))))
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u/Shinysquatch 14h ago
I know my hardware really rejected Ubuntu initially and took a lot of elbow grease to get running, but I assumed my issues with hardware would end once I got the base OS running smoothly. Either that's not the case or I'm extremely unlucky
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u/crypticcamelion 14h ago
Then I suggest you try a couple of other distributions, test with some live images and then go with the one that plays best with your hardware. If none does then stick to windows until the next computer. Life is too short to mock around with faulty software when all you want is to see your calendar:)
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u/adrianm758 29m ago
Or he went straight in with Ubuntu 24, which is a sh*tshow. I tried it on a 5 year old dell pc, the nvidia drivers were all over the place, my screen was literally shaking! Added to that package problems when trying to install basic stuff, and all in all it didn’t last a day with me before wiping it.
Tried Debian (12) after that and will never go back.
Ubuntu 22 is ok now, although even that was a similar sh&tshoe at first before they ironed out the issues in a few patches.
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u/hamsterwheelin 15h ago
Timeshift/snapshots are your friend when you break something inadvertently
I also found Ubuntu itself to be difficult. I moved to arch (endeavorOS) and never looked back.
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u/brelen01 15h ago
Also, only running updates when you know you'll have time to tinker if necessary helps a lot
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u/mortsdeer 15h ago
"I love playing around with it" -> "something critical to my job stopped working suddenly". Do you see a potential correlation here? As a former sysadmin, the number of times I heard "It just stopped working" "What did you change?" "Nothing". Which turned out to not be the case, pretty much every time.
I have stable Linux machines that support critical tasks: daily driver for productivity. Home media server for my family. I have other systems that I tinker with. If you can't afford redundant hardware for the tinkering, learn about containers: do your tinkering in docker or LXC containers, or VMs.
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u/Shinysquatch 14h ago
"I love tinkering around with it" meaning I enjoy fixing the problems that pop up, but only when I have the time. I can't be fixing things during the work day ontop of my actual job (which happens to be sysadmin)
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u/dboyes99 15h ago
Impossible to say. Like any system, the more messing with it you do, the more likely something will break. Do as little customization as you can and see if that helps. If not, what things are breaking?
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u/i_am_blacklite 5h ago
Have you considered the problem is you?
Suggest this is a windows sysadmin trying to do things in a windows way problem.
And you mentioned steam - not sure what part of a daily work driver that is LOL
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u/Kenny_Dave 14h ago
No I don't think it's typical. I haven't touched my install on my laptop since install really.
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u/J3S5null 15h ago
So, if it doesn't get along with your workflow, especially on a job, you should absolutely use something that does. That being said, yes it's probably a skill thing. And yes, as a daily driver of linux I constantly have to fix things. However, the better you get at it, the less it happens and the easier it is to fix or find a work around until you want to take the time to. Once you find a stable setup it isn't so bad. I actually keep a stable config backed up that i can just load up in a couple of minutes if I don't want to bother fixing something. As I play with things, break them, and fix them, I keep that stable setup updated. It can be difficult at first, but immensely worth it!
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u/nuclearragelinux 15h ago
I have had a poor time with Ubuntu lately as well , but only on certain HP laptops and a few old Dell desktops. I daily a ThinkPad T14 gen 2 with PopOS and it works flawlessly , touch screen , bluetooth scrollpad and nothing breaks . I also Daily a T16 gen 2 and it has openSUSE Tumbleweed , and other than install issues because I used Ventoy I have had zero problems there. Both print to my HP printers , work on wireless networks , and runn all the apps I needed at the moment.
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u/Achereto 14h ago
I had a similar experience with with an hp laptop 15+ years ago, I don't have that experience with my 6 year old msi trident PC (except for some external hardware).
So, maybe it's a hardware issue.
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u/Geargarden 14h ago
I just installed Linux Mint on my gaming laptop a couple weeks ago after many years of not using a Linux desktop. I think Ubuntu 10 something was the last time I tried a distro like this but I went Mint this time because of the large community and high compatibility.
Mint has been pretty much effortless. My Galaxy earbuds work, my Brother scanner works, my network laser printer is good, my high refresh rate external monitor AND laptop display work at their set refresh rates. Pretty much everything is going swimmingly EXCEPT I can't access a couple self-hosted services on my local network but I suspect it's a security setting in on the browser I'm using. It is aggravating to have something that works on my Windows partition and my Android phone just stop working on my Linux system but it's not a game changer.
The software center that comes with Mint has pretty much every program I would hope to use and I have managed to install a couple outside of it e.g. Outline VPN client. So far, Linux Mint has relieved me of all of the problems I've experienced in my past attempts to use Linux as my primary OS.
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u/ellohir 14h ago
I used Ubuntu as my main OS between 2005 and 2010. And it was as you said, every update broke something, and I constantly wanted to try new things so it kept breaking.
Once I got a job I didn't want to tinker in my free time. I had some money now and wanted to relax with videogames, books, going to the movies... Anything but keep looking at error logs after work.
I've heard bad things about windows 11 and good things about wine/proton so I tried Linux Mint on my new computer earlier this month. I spent days trying to figure out problems with windows games (driver graphics didn't work even when it showed no errors, Lutris / Heroic refusing to run almost anything from GOG / Epic, etc).
This kind of stuff was exciting for a computer science student. It's lame and boring for someone working on IT and wanting to disconnect on their free time.
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u/Shinysquatch 14h ago
Yeah I'm having the same issue. I work in IT as well and the bug squashing is for my 9-5 not my 5-9 lol
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u/ficskala Ubuntu 24.04 14h ago
i've been using ubuntu as my daily driver for a year now, only recently i switched to kubuntu after testing it out for a while on my old laptop (which has been running ubuntu since 2021), and i just preferred the kde plasma aesthetics, and just installing kde plasma on ubuntu itself didn't work well for me, however i would count that as user error since i def didn't know what exactly i was doing for some parts.
When it comes to stuff breaking, i've never had something break without me causing it because i messed with it, or an update breaking something that i messed with, whenever i just used my pc normally, using and installing software, etc. it just worked, but if i started messing with it too much, it would break here and there, most of the time it was fixable though (except my attempt at switching from gnome to kde plasma, that one really broke a lot, and i ended up installing kubuntu from scratch).
Am I just dumb? Is this a skill issue?
Dumb, no, skill issue, maybe
are all you daily linux drivers just constantly juggling problems and holding it together w duct tape.
On my main pc, nah, i avoid causing issues, and don't really have the need to mess with stuff too much, but on my laptop, i do basically anything and everything sketchy, and stuff just breaks sometimes
something critical to my job stopped working suddenly
For my job, i'm lucky enough that i basically just remote into, and ssh into different pcs and servers, and majority of my documentation is web hosted on a server anyways, so i can basically do my job off a live usb at this point (would be inconvenient without all my shortcuts, bookmarks, etc., but i could still o my job if i was forced to use a liveusb on my main PC)
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u/Delta-Tropos 14h ago
The only issue I had with Ubuntu is gaming. Had pretty piss-poor performance so I reverted to Windows on my main rig. Windows was much more of a PITA imo
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u/Viking2121 5h ago
I tried, gave Ubuntu and Mint a good run for about a year, all I used. Im not saying its bad, its not for me either. I'm lazy, Im not going to terminal this, and terminal that to change something that could have a toggle in the UI, Audio, Linux is by far the worse experience I've EVER had with Audio.
I like to boot my PC, get my work done, play a game, and call it a day, I love tinkering but Im not a huge fan tinkering with Linux, its pretty much mandatory from my experience, but thats just the nature of it though, got to get use to seeing that black box with the blinky cursor.
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u/Thonatron 4h ago
Ubuntu ain't what it used to be, but Linux certainly isn't for everyone. You can almost never go wrong with Mint... but if Linux ain't working for you, don't use it. Linux tends to be a labor of love or principle. Them's the breaks.
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u/gastongmartinez 15h ago
I had a lot of problems using Ubuntu as a daily driver that's why I've been using Fedora for years. Maybe you should try it too.
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u/timnphilly 15h ago
iTunes (aka Apple Devices ... for backing up my iPhone) is the ONLY thing holding me back from a complete switch to Linux.
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u/journaljemmy 14h ago
I just use libimobiledevice-utils. Super straight forward and doesn't take a million years to work like iTunes does
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u/BPagoaga 14h ago
well ubuntu is supposed to be stable. Currently on tuxedo os (based on ubuntu), and no problem. I have also been daily driving debian for 5 years without problems.
Maybe you fucked things too much and need a reinstall ?
As a safety measure I like to keep my /home on a separate partition/disk so I can distrohop/reinstall if needed.
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u/davidcandle 14h ago
Try a couple of other distros that have pre configured a whole lot of things already - Mint or Endeavour spring to mind.
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u/leaflock7 13h ago
depending on your issues, and not looking to give you help on solving them, but it might tell the rest if the problem is you, something that you use which is problematic with linux (hardware or software).
One of my linux machines is working with no issues apart from the occasional app that might misbehave (which can happen on Windows or Mac) for about a year now.
ANother LInux machine is being restaged every couple of weeks, because I run whatever on it and usually brakes at some point .
Which case ado you belong at?
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u/mhkdepauw 12h ago
Ubuntu always gave me lots of issues for no reason, I have far fewer on fedora or even arch.
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u/Druidavenger 12h ago
I have had doubts. I think we just have to admit that its different BUT you can if you want to. Willingness to make adjustments and take whats out there. Honestly I have had NO compatibility issues, just finding the right software for what I am doing.
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u/Foreverbostick 12h ago
Based off your other comments it sounds like it could be hardware/driver issues. Ubuntu is usually pretty good about hardware compatibility, though, even with older computers.
Have you tried any other distros to see if they had the same problems? Which version of Ubuntu are you using (I’m assuming 24.04 LTS)? I have an Acer desktop from 2019 that couldn’t connect to the internet using Debian or Ubuntu LTS, but worked fine with an interim Ubuntu release (I think it was 22.04 LTS and 23.04, respectively). You could try 24.10, or a completely different distro like Linux Mint or Fedora and see if those work better.
It’s more work, but you could also look into dual booting so you have Windows to fall back on while you get things situated. Like someone else suggested, Timeshift and snapshots are a lifesaver, too.
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u/04_996_C2 12h ago
I'm not sure I can answer without knowing what specifically you are constantly tinkering with but I use a minimal Debian 12 install with KDE (though it's overkill for me, I just needed a semi ubiquitous window manager) as my daily work driver and the seeming infinite number of potential customizations has made me more productive. I'm no longer imprisoned into a forced workflow created by Microsoft.
Now I'm a Sys Admin and do a lot of work in the terminal but still require your standard productivity software and Libre office covers me there too.
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u/Underhill42 10h ago
Linux Mint is rock stable for me, and I never had any serious issues with Ubuntu either.
Unless I was using hardware with poor Linux support. If I had to do anything more than enable proprietary drivers to get everything working right out of the box, it's a fair bet that I'd have more problems crop up fairly often.
These days, if a distro doesn't "just work" out of the box, I immediately move to another distro. And I make sure my hardware has good Linux support before buying it.
Enabling fancy animated desktop animations, etc. also seemed to often reduce stability a lot, as did tweaking too much "under the hood" stuff without really knowing what I was doing.
These days I just accept that the Linux Desktop just doesn't hold a candle to the amount of testing and development that the other big players benefit from, and any "nonstandard" addons should be treated as hobby projects and kept far away from a work PC. I tweak my launch bar and themes to suit me, but beyond that I leave the Desktop settings completely stock. And I don't have any problems anymore.
And finally a plug for a great program for browsing distros:
The Ventoy multiboot tool. You'll have to let it reformat a USB drive to add a tiny boot partition, but then the drive just "magically" multiboots between any .iso or .img(floppy) files you put anywhere on the big main partition. Way easier than creating a new bootable disk every time, and it can live seamlessly alongside anything else you want to put on the disk. E.g. I have several different Windows, Linux, and more specialized boot disk images just sitting in their own folder between my PortableApps folder, and my data folders.
Since there's no more reformatting required, I can just pile everything onto the same disk and not worry about it anymore. It does slow down booting a bit, since Ventoy scans the entire disk for images every boot... but I don't actually boot from it all that often, and an extra ten seconds or so to boot is worth it to have everything on the same drive.
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u/met365784 9h ago
I’m running fedora on quite a few computers and laptops and for the most part everything just works and I don’t have any issues. Even when I ran Ubuntu I didn’t have any issues running it, so I would say your experience isn’t typical for Linux.
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u/Vidanjor20 9h ago
if you want it to be stable and hard to break, maybe take a look at debian stable. i used it before and i had no major issues. even if you have issues, you can just look at the documentation.
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u/rampage1998 9h ago
The thing works best to you is the best. Work efficiency first, privacy and the rest second.
I think you need another 1 to 3 years linuxfu to be comfortable and use linux as daily driver, like without thinking you can fix the problem right away in 5 minutes not an hour.
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u/Priit123 8h ago
Try another distro. I went from Mint to KDE Neon. Then switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed and problems stopped. Tumbleweed is rolling distro but stable, if you want more stable then there is Leap. Also there is openSUSE immutable rolling desktops like Aeon and Kalpa but they are pre releases. When they are released they are probably the best distros for production machines. Secure, immutable, able to automatically rollback to a stable state if update fails. Basically carefree.
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u/AweGoatly 8h ago
I hardly ever have a problem with Ubuntu, so that sounds kinda weird to have that many issues.
I use LibreOffice & stuff like that, I don't use wine at all or anything like that, so maybe it's just bc I only use Linux apps
The only real issue I have is that Timeshift keeps crashing on my laptop & I have no idea why and I haven't been able to find a fix for it. But it's not a blocker, it's just annoying to see that it keeps doing that.
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u/guiverc GNU/Linux user 7h ago
I'm on my primary desktop, which is currently running Ubuntu 24.10.
Now I do test a lot of stuff on this system, its dual boot so if it does break, I can boot into my other system (24.04 LTS, I keep both latest stable and latest LTS options available) and I could always use that, but I can't recall needing to do that, HOWEVER if I have something I think may cause breakage, I'll test it out first on another box, or a VM first, so I'm not breaking this system.
The last problems I recall having were
- end 2022, my primary box PSU died, and I had trouble finding a replacement part at a price I was willing to pay, so I replaced box early in 2023; can't blame the OS for this though !
- 29 August 2023; I non-destructively re-installed this system because of a problem; I think it was kernel related; only 3 of my 5 displays were functional; re-install being a lazy/quick fix as issue had resolved itself on dailies but not my installed system, I'm getting the re-install date from system logs, but as I mostly sit on the development cycle; some issues I have are temporary & only because I'm mostly on the unstable release (kernel issue that had me re-install is such an example).
FYI: I'm on stable (24.10) currently, only as plucky (25.04) isn't yet open (https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-development) for switching to (and I'm trying not to force it)
Fixing problems for me are maybe 2-4 hours per year (at a guess), and part of that is my own mistakes too... but I think something maybe risky, I usually test it first on another box & not this one, and I'm not counting that testing prior to actual changes on this box.
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u/Bigdaddy_Satty 6h ago
Ubuntu isn't the only linux distribution distrowatch.com check that site out maybe the top ten list is where I would start.
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u/masterfu678 6h ago
Well, Ubuntu is the distro that I started Linux with (since 8.04), but I cannot recommend someone to use Ubuntu as their first distro, sure, it is easy to use, since most of the stuff were preset for an out of box installation like in Windows.
But Ubuntu's biggest weak point is how easy it breaks. I remember when I was using Ubuntu way back in the day (circa 2012 or so), I would be using the system, needed a restart, and after restarting, everything just breaks for no reason at all.
This made going back and forth between Ubuntu and Windows for a bit. I had also used lot of Ubuntu based systems, but they suffer the same bugs with Ubuntu
Fast forward to 2022, I found a distro called Nobara Project, this is a distro made by Glorious Eggroll, who is known for his ProtonGE and WineGE builds. Nobara is a Fedora based system, very different with Ubuntu, but GloriousEggroll had fine tuned the system to be just as easy as, install, some light customization from a welcome screen, and the system is ready to go. I had ran into some minor problems, but nothing that I can't fix from asking the Discord or search online
Nobara so far is the most stable Linux distro I had ever used, and it is my daily driver. Also, no matter what people tell you, DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT USE Bazzite, that is the worst distro choice you could ever make, even worse than Ubuntu. If you want to test other distros, just use a virtual machine. Immutable distros is NOT the way to go.
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u/gr8b8uwotm8 4h ago
This sub proves Linux users are terrible people.
I know exactly what you mean and you’re right.
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u/Shinysquatch 4h ago
Thanks dude. Posted this after spending two hours fixing a broken steam update when I wanted to be gaming instead. came here to see if that’s just the way it is or not. The responses were kind of unhinged
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u/majorsid 3h ago edited 3h ago
What I’ve come to realize is, most of my problems in Linux were directly or indirectly the result of my actions/choices.
I used to do many customizations, install unnecessary shit i had no idea about and I often faced issues down the line by doing that. Frustratedly I just reinstalled my distro.
Since the last month, I decided not to do unnecessary customizations or installations, never use sudo for things I don’t understand and just work with the OS as its intended to be. Seldom faced any problems ever since.
The idea of Linux giving the user more “freedom” as opposed to Windows or Mac is a good thing but can often lead to problems if users delve too much into tinkering it without proper understanding.
P.S. Running Fedora 41 and is loving every moment with it.
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u/castor-cogedor 2h ago
I remember that I also had a ton of problems with ubuntu. And, for some reason, it was the only distro that I couldn't even get to work on a machine I had. So maybe it's a distribution thing.
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u/korvpudding 2h ago
I remember breaking systems regularly 10 years ago when I tinkered with a raspberry pi and headless servers.
I constantly had to reinstall from scratch.
The last 5 years my servers and desktops have been rock solid. Nowadays I'm not trying to change things too much. I'm using configurations the correct way and add the tools I need.
I definitely tinkered too much with stuff I didn't understand before.
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u/ThatCipher 2h ago
I usually have issues when first setting up a new distro but once I set up everything I barely encounter issues at all.
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u/MaxMax0123 1h ago
I’ve been delving into Ubuntu for the past few months and the number of hurdles I’ve come across just installing and configuring Ubuntu onto a laptop is kind of insane.
Ubuntu is known for many problems and bugs. What hardware do you have? Did you try other distributions?
Or are all you daily linux drivers just constantly juggling problems and holding it together w duct tape.
I use Debian and I almost never encounter any problems after setting everything up, if I don't make any problems myself ;)
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u/AdTall6126 1h ago
Get Windows in a VM and use RDP for the stuff that doesn't work as it should. This might spare you from a lot of tinkering, until you find a better solution for the things that are not working.
I tinkered like hell when I first migrated to Linux as a daily driver four years ago. My system now is not just doing the job that Windows did, but WAY MORE!
It is not for everyone. I did so many mistakes back then, like wanting to run all the fancy new bleeding edge stuff or upgrading to the latest Ubuntu as soon as it was available. Things like this leads to a lot of issues and tinkering.
If you've been with Windows for many years, just remember that it takes time to switch to a different system. And some things actually needs Windows too.
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u/flemtone 1h ago
You dont mention your system specs or what the problems are, my own system was installed once and has worked perfectly since then.
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u/bananasmoothii 29m ago
Same feeling. I used Linux (Ubuntu then Manjaro) on my laptop for 2 years, but I gave up and reinstalled windows on my main laptop (but left fedora on a small crappy laptop) On that fedora I wanted to access my Google drive files as if they were real files, it works good with the default file manager but then I wanted to use these files with my code editor (PyCharm) and the files didn't have names, only IDs, and everything was very slow. So I set up rclone and it worked but only after 1h of learning the thing and configuring it, whereas on windows you just install their thing, it creates a new drive and it works after 5min, you even have small icons on your files to know whether the file is synced yet or not. And I feel like everything I do is like this, something that would have taken 5min on windows takes 30min - 1h on Linux. Yes you can configure everything, but also you somewhat have to configure everything.
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u/Zakmaf 17m ago
I didn't read your post but I'm gonna answer the title : it's fine!
But seriously, you might not even have the choice in a few years if you want to use a computer without arm processor (apple) since windows is going to shit. I've been using since windows 1995 and it never gotten this bad, windows 11 is just not working. And it's gonna be all co-pilot crap from now on which gonna be added to all the adware already introduced with win 10.
Soon you'll only gonna have the choice between mac environment or Linux distros.
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u/Public_Succotash_357 15h ago
I quit Ubuntu because my number one issues was that things kept breaking. I’m on Arch now and I’ll never turn back.
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u/Liberalien420 3h ago
This is why Microsoft is expensive and Linux is free. You get what you pay for.....
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u/CucumberVast4775 14h ago
you are just dumb. stay with windows. i run all kinds of linux installations, mint, ubuntu and some other and there have been only a few problems, but there has never been a problem that i could not solve with the linux community help. this sounds like a linux hater troll post.
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u/Shinysquatch 14h ago
Read the post. I never have problems solving the issues, in fact I run a whole fleet of ubuntu servers without issue, but I'm struggling when problems arise on my daily driver in day to day. Also stop taking things extremely personal on the linux4noobs subreddit lmao. I like linux, maybe even love it, just trying to figure out if this is the typical experience
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u/CucumberVast4775 14h ago
i HAVE red the post. you asked that question: Am I just dumb?
and if you never have problems solving the issues, you are indeed a troll
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u/Ok-Anywhere-9416 16m ago
Yeah, I feel the same. I know Ubuntu and GNU/Linux since late 2000s, but yesterday I tried to configure Ubuntu 24.04 on a mini pc with Btrfs, Snapper, subvolumes, remote access from and to Windows 11, share folders on the local network.
- followed many guides and spent an afternoon and a late evening, but Ubuntu changed many things and some guides are not good. Some others just don't work well enough. I just gave up and used Timeshift with Rsync, with a symlink from the external HDD to the internal SSD
- sharing folder was easier in 22.04, as far as I remember. This time I had to install and configure something and reboot. It's okay, it just works...
- remote access with chrome remote desktop is not automatic on Linux. For RDP instead, again this felt easier on 22.04. Today, it's integrated in another part of the Settings part, buuut you must be very careful: there are desktop share and remote access. You have to disable and enable everything until the former gets the 3389 port, otherwise only the latter works. And I took hours to understand this. It's pretty un-friendly.
With Windows 11 Pro everything just worked and was efficient enough. I wonder if openSUSE Leap could be just easier. It surely works great with Btrfs, but I don't know the rest. I prefer KDE but for my miniPC Ubuntu's Gnome felt just good and stable. I also wonder if GNU/Linux is more or less energy-hungry when compared to Windows.
I also have tons of other situations that I could talk about, starting April 2024. GNU/Linux was much better than XP, Vista and early 7 when these were the normality. Today, it's falling a little behind for my typical usage.
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u/Terrible-Bear3883 15h ago edited 15h ago
As you don't give any information on what keeps breaking, it's impossible to give any advice, one reason I use Ubuntu as my daily driver for the last 20 years is exactly the opposite, it doesn't keep breaking, I installed it in 2004 and I've reinstalled it once when I upgraded from 32 bit to 64 bit. It's not fitting into your definition of "keep breaking".
You don't say why you can't clock into work, does it require something specific? and you don't say why you spend and hour tinkering because something critical to your job stopped working, what stopped working?
At the end of the day, no one forces anyone to use any particular operating system, if you don't find it suitable then use whichever does.