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Honestly in my experience linux is dogshit.
Want literally any program that reads or writes files to be able to work? Well good fucking luck spending hours asking on discord and reading websites trying to figure out how to fix the permissions and never figuring it out.
Want the system to fucking boot the OS? Lol. Roll the dice baby! 1/3 of the time it's going to get stuck in command line.
And why struggle in the first place? Two of my favorite games don't even run on it.
And even the games that EXPLICITLY SAY THEY RUN ON LINUX IN STEAM DO NOT WORK
I turned a gaming laptop into a word processor. And ultimately into a dust collector.
I'm done trying. Fuck linux and fuck the first person who tells me different.
I'm curious to know exactly what distribution you tried. Every type of Linux I have tried have never given me issues with programs, booting, or running games.
In fact, the only games that have flat out not worked for me are the ones that require a Windows system for their anticheat.
I don't blame you for hating the system; I would too, given the circumstances. I'm just curious as to how your system got to such a state of unusability.
mint manjaro kubuntu
I don't remember the specifics of the first two; all above complaints relate to the third
Mmm yeah, Mint is like the only one of those designed for compatibility and ease of use first. Manjaro as your 2nd distro is an especially wild step. That was my 2nd distro as well, and it was miserable and I broke my machine lol. Then, come to find out, the company that makes it suxx with a capital XX.
You know, now that I think back on my early days, I actually did try Kubuntu for a little bit and I had a few hiccups there. Never failed to boot on me, but it did have times where it felt like it was trying. ๐ญ
If you ever feel like giving it a go again, Pop!_OS is pretooled to have all the drivers you need. I didn't have a single problem with Pop! my whole time using it. If that doesn't suit your visual style, then PikaOS has a great KDE Plasma spin that feels just like Windows!
My point being: I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but also understand that there are options that are drag 'n' drop easy at this point.
I'll go fuck myself now, I guess...
Oh, by the way, what are those two games?
I had way more problems with kubuntu than manjaro by the way. Trying to remember back, I think I switched away from it because of some security issue that was a meme at that point? I was thinking of switching back but I merged the laptop's ssd and hdd in the disk manager so now I'd have to have a clean start and I got lazy.
I'm no longer in a situation where the laptop is especially useful to me and it was my trial run for deciding if I would switch on my desktop.
Rocket league and this
I could probably run a VM for the latter if I were on a desert island I guess
Yeah, Kubuntu has some issues. If you didn't have any trouble with Manjaro, CachyOS is similar, but without the BS, super fast and gaming focused. I'm using it now, and I was fully expecting to break it but it just keeps trucking.
Also, you can run both of those games on Linux. Steam's Proton tool is magic. ProtonDB users have Rocket League working on the Steam Deck. You probably just need the Heroic Games Launcher to get it from Epic. I don't have any personal experience with Rocket League, but Civ IV definitely runs through Steam with Proton, and it's not hard to mod games on there.