You are right that the terminal is a really useful tool. But for the average user, the terminal is intimidating.

No other OS works like Linux in term of UX. You can use iOS or Windows without a command line all your life.

As this post describe, it is next to impossible with a Linux Distro.

For the people that want Linux to be mainstream, this is an important hurdle to go over.

I know that Windows sometimes shit the bed where you need to edit a register or use PowerShell, but for the vast majority of people, it won’t be needed ever in their life.

I am mostly gaming these days but a few months a year, there is a 3d printed project with some embedded components so I’d like the distro to be relatively easy to use in those cases.

Thanks for the explanation.

I don’t have a lot of time these days, so my PC is mostly used for gaming at the moment. So I am not too worried about the OS being immutable if the gaming is good out of the box.

I still keep a kubuntu os and dual boot the other os I want to try on another ssd.

How is Bazzite for other things than gaming? For me, mainly embedded dev and productivity.

Linux Mint would be an OS built on the Linux Kernel.

Some people have a hang-up on calling any Linux kernel based OS “Linux”, because unlike its competitor, there is a lot of OS flavors.

You have “main” OSes (Debian, Fedora, etc.) and derivative OSes based on these “main” OSes.

Linux Mint for example, is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.

At this point, it is semantics.

I recently switched to KDE. What tweaks do you recommend (other than finding a theme you like)?

Ubuntu is a great gateway distro to Linux. It ressemble Windows a lot, stable and straight forward to install and use.

So a new user is not too lost when switching over.

And, yeah, privacy is not that great, but having installed windows 11 on a new PC, Ubuntu is a lot better than windows

Ventoy has changed my life. No more having to find a unused usb key to format then flash.

Just drop the ISO, boot on the key and choose whatever you want to try/install.

Thanks for the input, but I am just not using the kvm anymore. It’s flaky even in normal use. I will get a wireless mouse with connection profile and have 2 cables for my keyboard.

That’s something I will try. My only gripe with that explanation is that I didn’t have the issue when my windows machine (which is exactly the same as it is now, except with Kubuntu) was using the same mouse, keyboard and setup.

I could try to put a mouse directly on my PC and keep my keyboard as is to see if I can trigger the issue. I might be on the brink of overcurrent and when the GPU is running hotter, it might trip the power drain.

My intuition is that since the nvidia driver on linux isn’t great, there might be an issue between the GPU and the HDMI connection to the monitor. And since the functionality of the KVM depends on the HDMI connection to the PC, if there is an issue, that might cause the issue. In the Xorg log, we can see that there is a hiccup with the GPU and it seems to be restarting the hdmi.

Still, I will try to lower the power consumption by reducing the GPU load, and any settings I can change on my monitor and see if that causes issues.

That’s a lot of great advices. Thanks

Right now, my configuration is 2 hdmi cables for video output (one in my pc and the other in my work pc), a usb connection from each of these computer to the monitor (usb c for the work pc and usb b for the pc) and my mouse an keyboard are plugged each into their own usb port on the integrated kvm.

My monitor is updated to the latest firmware, and bios is updated to the last firmware it can be (it’s an old motherboard, so not really supported anymore).

I doubt that the bios is the issue here because I had the same bios back on windows 10, and I didn’t have the issue back then.

But that a good avenue to explore still. Thanks for your input.

What is frustrating is that these people will gobble up any bullshit that a snake oil vendor post on Facebook and they reject modern medicine until they need it. Bunch of hypocrite idiots.

I get what you are saying, we have something similar here. But even then, the workload was never as big as it was for college/university.

Good luck

In what grade are you? If you aren’t college/university level, this is fucking bullshit

It won’t stop people from trying all sort of shit even if we don’t know how the human brain works.

AI isn’t the boogeyman, the corpos using it for dumb shit is.

You said that you rent the property you bought because that is the only way you could do it. That is litteraly your first sentence.

Someone else is paying your mortgage right now so that you can move in later.

I am not sure what else can be said.

How am I making your point? You litteraly said that you could not afford the place, so you rented it out instead.

Someone is paying your mortgage for you because you cannot afford it, and then you will kick that person out when you want to. That person will then have to move again in a market that gets worse by the month.

I’d say that is pretty bad all around.

Someone else is litteraly paying your mortgage for you because you cannot afford it otherwise. How out of touch do you have to be to say that with a straight face?