The second something doesn’t work as expected, even a minor thing, they’ll be at a complete loss about how to even investigate the issue, let alone correct it.

In the majority of cases, this is no different from Windows users on Windows.

For a Linux distro, try Slackware or one of the immutable ones. For not a Linux distro, try one of the BSDs.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ&pp=ygUXdHdvIGlkaW90cyBvbmUga2V5Ym9hcmQ%3D

It uses a strongly type language so it teaches good practices, it’s based on a widely used language in the industry, it’s a bloody good course that teaches the fundamentals of programming very well. If you learn better with videos, I recommend this course, but it’s not free.

Sorry to be pedantic, but if you can revive it then it wasn’t really bricked. Depending on how bad it was it was still worth the [Rare] ego item 🧑‍🌾

A good place to start is the University of Helsinki Java MOOC, it starts from zero knowledge and has lots of practice exercises.

I use KDE as I can set it up just how I like it. I never got on with Gnome at all. The truth of it is that the only way to know if you prefer Gnome to KDE is to give it a good try out. Don’t forget Cinnamon, Xfce, and Mate also!

As well as what has already been mentioned, when I used it, it crashed a lot.

Well Arch and the like tend to managed from the terminal so I guess no one cared enough to write one.

Discover is not working properly on Arch based distros because there’s no packagekit backend for them.

It’s in the aur, so use yay or another aur helper to install it

But it starts a good conversation. It’s good to get a handle on other peoples experiences.

You can install Octopi or Pamac which both handle the standard repositories and the aur. I don’t know if they handle flatpak or snap though.

1. Window rules are working fine here but I only have a couple of simple ones. I seem to recall a problem with a lot of rules, like 50 or 60 but I can’t remember what the problem was.

2. If you have exactly the same image, then as far as I can tell, the only thing different is the hardware however unlikely it seems and it does seem unlikely.

I consider myself a prime candidate for bugs as I use quite a few widgets including third party ones and compile desktop effects from source but apart from afore-mentioned, nada. I sometimes wonder if it’s because I carefully choose my hardware to be Linux compatible even if it means not buying the latest and greatest. Maybe I’m just lucky 😬

Experienced none of that with openSUSE Tumbleweed or EndeavourOS. The only bug I have is a panel mis-sized when first logging in but that seems to be fixed in 6.3.

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I used Tumbleweed for eight years with no problems. I only moved to EndeavourOS because Suse bared their corporate teeth and I got fed up being a couple of generations behind on the Nvidia drivers. EndeavourOS is also good.

Remembers Tumbleweed fondly

They don’t just decide to remove a driver on a whim, there’s a whole process which involves reaching out to the original maintainers and seeing if anyone else wants to take it on among other things. Internet search is so poor these days, I can’t find the information on it.