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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by exceptione on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:35AM (#27661058)
As a long time Windows user that tried Linux in the past with no avail, I finally found my love in Manjaro KDE. Because it is based on Arch, it is closer to cutting edge which is a good thing wrt hardware support. I especially love that you can just switch kernels from the GUI. The good thing is that it Arch with safety belts, with a wide array of curated packages. If you feel more adventurous, you can also reach out for arch packages from the same package manager.

Being on KDE means I am ahead of Windows.

Using MS Teams in ungoogled chromium for maximum privacy works.

I have no experience with Nvidea drivers, but I see a lot of hits at disabling the Nouveau driver. But again, this might be solved with running a more recent kernel.

It's not as simple as Windows, but my time investment to read the release notices is minimal. An other benefit is that your system doesn´t slow as your os install ages.

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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by chokma on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:05AM (#27661405)
I tried Manjaro recently - just in time to run into the Nvidia update disaster (black screen on boot, broken X-server due to system update). And no amount of fiddling with the config files and nouveau / proprietary drivers brought the system back into a usable state. So back to Ubuntu it was...
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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by vimacs2 on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:25AM (#27661639)
I'm not arguing that this will necessarily fix your woes as I have no experience with any Nvidia hardware but one of the greatest but in hindsight obvious discoveries I made with regards to management of my Arch based system was discovering how to downgrade packages. Once you know how to do this, it's a lot less painful having to deal with broken updates - which are pretty rare anyway.

I personally cannot stand using Ubuntu and it seems I'm not alone in that regard. I hear nonstop issues with it from my friends who tried it and I attribute a lot of failed Linux converstions of people thanks to it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Downgrading_packages

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Re:I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC by Der_Einzige on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:53AM (#27661977)
Same exact experience here. Now I get why people told me to avoid rolling release distros.

I used Manjaro entirely because of its i3/bspwm DE versions. Ubuntu now has a good equivalent in the form of regolith. Avoid Manjaro if you care about long term system stability

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