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[-] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Baah. KBIN just ate my reply.

Point form since I forgot to save to clipboard first.

Tried mint - booted to black screen
Tried ubuntu - got silly crashes like in the post trying to install stuff. It also wanted me to sign up for some sort of support package with 5 free devices to get updates or something. Also, trackpad scrolling was uncontrollable. Would scroll up half a screen or more as I lifted my fingers off.
Tried fedora - only 100% and 200% zoom option, and no right click.

Managed to fix the fedora issues with some command line found on Google and a gnome customising addon.

n00b here, just playing. Can't migrate fully as I need VBA and Playit Live etc.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I do wonder what kind of gardware you have... And if it's maybe defective?

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Asus F555D - 12G RAM, AMD R8 M350DX GPU and a sticker that says Radeon Dual Graphics. That's probably what was tripping up the system booting to a black screen.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Time to switch to mbin! The features you might miss are new comment highlighting and the all content view, but these are being worked out and mbin still has, otherwise, way more features.

[-] hactar42@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I took a similar path but eventually ended up on openSUSE for my desktop. I've been pretty happy with it. I can't think of a single issue that I wasn't able to quickly resolve. I even got CUDA installed and working in under an hour.

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