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planning to switch from windows 11 to Ubuntu on my laptop
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Hi, I appreciate that you consider to dump the bloatware. I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04, and also Ubuntu 25.10. And, unfortunately, I have to say, both versions have installation issues on my computer. In the installer, when I select erase disk and install with LVM, the installer crashes and isn't able to recover.
Also after the installation, I have graphic issues with the steam interface (only shows up when I run it from terminal) and sometimes the brave browser (snap version) just closes and nothing else happens.
As different distribution, I tried only cachy OS. Similar problems there. Not sure if my AMD CPU is not compatible with the AMD GPU I recently bought.. hmm.. Thought the AMD drivers were already built-in in the kernel..
Well, to sum it up, I have problems with Linux I didn't have half a year ago, and it may be hardware related. So expect to try some bugfixing.. Good luck.
I remember dealing with similar issues with steam and snap versions of apps on my desktop with amd ryzen and radeon vii. I had to kinda go out of the way to make things work like what you said having to run steam from terminal. Everything ended up working I just had to do it the roundabout way and that was using Ubuntu 22.
I completed the install of Ubuntu 24 on my laptop earlier today and I used zfs instead of lvm and I've had absolutely no issues all day. I've installed all the apps I need and have been testing everything out with no problems. Also during the install I had it download the proprietary nvidia drivers which I'm assuming helped. Only problem I had was a crash while playing arc raiders but that could happen anytime using anything
I assumed the worst when it came down to swapping over to Linux on the laptop and to my surprise its been the easiest time I've ever had.