It's wilder when it works in the installer, but not on first boot.
I have altered the drivers, pray I do not alter them further.
Ah yes, the 'Arch Linux' experience. To be fair, your machine boots really really fast when you don't read the install guide carefully enough and fail to put a network stack on. Valuable learning opportunity.
So Linux Mint then!
I'm actually having a better time of it after switching to Bazzite. I had a bunch of strange little issues on Mint that seem to be gone after switching. I switched as a hail Mary for an issue where 3D Games would freeze randomly, and that seems to be gone too thankfully
Regarding the title,
If you've enough distros then you must've encountered the scenario where the driver worked in installer but did not in the final installation
Lol yea, I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that, but at least then it was usually a "Why didn't you just install it‽" rather than a 6 hour marathon of patches and drivers compiled from source or some shit LMAO
Funnily enough, me with Alpine Linux
I threw it at my laptop and it just worked without a hitch
Must be a thinkpad lol
Dell surprisingly lmao
As far as I know DELLs are decent, especially latitudes.
So, are you trying to say it's the year of the Linux desktop?
Debian 13.
Tried open suse, but on my laptop it was slow and loud and the battery would die almost instantly (had to make it hibernate rather than suspend if I wanted it to make it through the night).
Installed Debian 13 and it feels like a new laptop. Not sure what exactly made the difference between the two but I'm not complaining...
Tried to install Debian 13 yesterday
Didn’t even boot xD
Since I needed something stable, I installed Fedora Kionite and it worked flawlessly on the first try
I've had a similar problem trying to install Debian 12 in the past...
Turned out it was the USB drive, I think. It didn't have a problem booting and installing Mint, but with Debian it just wouldn't boot. A different drive and it worked right away and flawlessly.
Endeavour
I threw together spare computer parts and a new hard drive, installed Bazzite, Steam, and did an entire Dark Souls 1 playthrough without issue using an xbox controller.
Waiting for things to go awry now. Kinda feels like an Ambrose Bierce story playing out.
This was my experience with Ubuntu, my beloved. :)
I had this experience with my l14 thinkpad and Fedora.
I was shocked that even the fingerprint reader worked… well like half the time, but I don’t like using it anyway.
impossible! jkjk
Hint: :q!
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