Hello All.

First, I have been daily driving Linux(POP_OS) for nearly a year and outside of some frustrations, it has been a great experience. I expect a certain level of weirdness and quirks. I was using my Windows laptop to get some stuff done, and wanted to listen to some music over Bluetooth. This is where I messed up. I guess recent Windows updates just kind of break Bluetooth?? Every fix I have googled and tried failed to fix the problem. I kind of expect this behavior from Linux. I don’t expect it from an OS developed by a For Profit company.

Long story short, recommend me a distro that runs well on an Asus laptop with an Integrated and Discreet GPU. If Windows breaks functionality, then there isn’t a big reason to keep a Windows Machine around. If you say Arch, I intend to bully you but I’m open to any suggestions. Microsoft isn’t worth keeping around, even as a backup/standby.

I appreciate you <3

Quick Edit: This received a lot more engagement than I thought. Thank you all for the recommendations. I’ll spin up some VM’s and test them out. Thank you all for the guidance. May your day/night/other be most excellent!

  • shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    16 days ago

    Arch is sweet but you’ll want some miles under your belt first. Pop is great, if you want boring but just works debian is the goat

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    16 days ago

    Fedora is good. It gets regular updates and all the new tech. Once you set it up make sure to enable the non foss repos if you want stuff like discord

  • LordCrom@lemmy.world
    31·
    15 days ago

    I always recommend Mint to wundows converts. It looks like the windows UI, just works out of the box 99% of the time, and has a huge user base that is happy to provide assistance

  • DesolateMood@lemmy.zip
    2·
    16 days ago

    I’ve been a Pop stan since I started using Linux so I’ll always recommend it, and it helps that you already like it. But if you specifically want something different (and that isn’t arch), I’d say Fedora KDE

  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    I was trying to make the leap but I’m now stuck without sound on Linux Mint. Just be aware that if you have some critical need (I’m job hunting and need to do some video conference interviews) that things can and do go past shaped and it’s not always straight forward to fix it.

    Go dual boot until you’re confident that you can rely on it.

    I’ll try to find some time to fix the sound and I’ll switch back to it or another distro.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
    0·
    15 days ago

    I have an ASUS ROG laptop with a dGPU and the dGPU is damaged, making it not run at all with Windows.
    I used the Arch ISO, booted up with the “new nVidia…” option and installed it using the most straightforward process[1] as given in the Arch Installation wiki page.

    Works well. I use it for testing changes I make in KDE apps.

    1. OK, maybe not “most”. I installed dracut at first but then switched to mkinitcpio ↩︎