Linux Mint works flawlessly as well, because of the Ubuntu base. However, that distribution’s developers do listen to the community and don’t pull crap like the snap system which is targeted by scammers and thieves
I just had to sing this little song
I am with that, cannot remember why or who asked but adds to the flavour.
I personally prefer the debian based version for compatibles with different hardware. LMDE for me, although it is the same cinammon desktop so user would see almost no difference.
Ok, then splain me why Linux Mint DEBIAN EDITION works so well.
Well, let me elaborate…
Understand?
You missed typed should have said works BETTER !
There is an error in the formulaire he used it p#d not p^d as any astro physicienne would know not rocket science……
They left the right square bracket off the matrix equation at the bottom.
No. Someone wrote the formula on toilet paper, and it all bled through my Algebra homework 
Here is another success story from Reddit I saw today. It’s nice to see some positive feedback and not just complaints.
The state of Linux on 2024 G16 : r/Ubuntu
The state of Linux on 2024 G16
I use to use Ubuntu back in the early 2000s and something gave me the itch to give it a shot. I had a spare SSD I installed Ubuntu 26.04 on just to test it out and booted through an external drive. I only picked Ubuntu because its what I am use to but I understand there are probably better distros for this laptop in particular. I wasn’t expecting much as from my memory using Ubuntu back in the day we were lucky to get the OS to boot on a laptop much less having all the bells and whistles functioning. I had no idea how far it had come. I installed on my external drive and I was pretty shocked to see almost everything worked out of the box. Almost everything. Wifi, bluetooth, camera all worked right away.
Right out of the box the only thing that wasn’t just working was the brightness control, the RGB/fan and all the other asus stuff and the speakers were also very messed up with cracking and no bass. To my shock all the display drivers installed without issue.
Using Gemini it took about 5 minutes to fix the brightness control with a tiny grub modification. All the RGB and fan stuff was a super easy fix by installing the Asus control software. Finally with more help from Gemini I was able to fix the speaker sound with Easy Effects and just loading Advanced Auto Gain preset. Ive listened to music going back and forth between windows and Ubuntu and I honestly can barely tell a difference. Maybe a little bassier in ubuntu with that preset.
Here are some things that gave me a lot of trouble and took a while to fix. There is no equivalent to G-Helper that I am aware of so cleanly switching graphics is tough. You have to use this app supergfxctl which is buggy as all hell and crashes sometimes. I dont use my Nvidia GPU on linux so I had to spend a few days figuring out how to just totally set it up to only use the intel gpu. It kept switching to hybrid mode randomly which would kill battery life. Eventually I figured it out but it took a while.
Battery life was another thing that took a while to figure out. On windows in eco mode I was drawing between 8-10 watts and I could get pretty great battery life just doing very light tasks like answering emails and web browsing. On Ubuntu out of the box because of the GPU switching issue it would stay around 16-24 watts of discharge. I spent days messing around with different tools including TLP and others trying to squeeze out better battery life but I finally in the end it seems like the built in Ubuntu Power modes work pretty well. Once I figured out how to totally turn off the Nvidia GPU and just using Ubuntu in power saver with Asus control center in quiet mode with fans off and no keyboard lighting I am back down to drawing 8-10 watts doing light task. That is AFTER adding that disk internally to my 2nd M.2 slot. Externally it was using a little more power. I do feel like windows still has a slight edge on battery discharge as it stays lower more consistently but it could also just be the monitoring software. I could probably squeeze out another watt of power saving if I have both windows and ubuntu on the same drive but haven’t gotten there yet. Windows seems to be a bit more aggressive with putting hardware in a sleep state which may be why it edges out a bit better. Im sure there is a way to tinker with linux to match windows exactly but its so good right now I wont mess with it.
Sleep worked amazing out of the box. Shockingly even better than windows. Its up and running in a fraction of a second as soon as I lift that lid. I remember this never working in the past. I remember total black screens and lock ups. Maybe its the new kernel but I have seen others say sleep doesnt work but it just worked flawlessly for me. Ive tested sleep back to back like 20 times opening and closing the lid and it hasnt locked up once in the last 2 weeks. It never turned on in my bookbag or anything. Using sleep it draws less than 1w an hour. I left it sleeping 12 hours and it used about 10%. Its not a macbook or anything but it is ok. On windows if it sleeps too long it will go into hibernate to save even more battery. This doesnt work by default and has to be set up. That took some playing around with and didnt work the first few times I tried it. Turns out the 8gb swap by default is too small. Again with Geminis help I fixed that pretty quickly. I havent had any issues with that yet although its only been a few days since I got that working. Honestly ubuntu boots so insanely quickly I dont really think you need hibernate. Im just the type I like to close my lid and throw my laptop in my bag and forget about it. I may let it sit a while and I want to make sure I have decent battery even if I leave it for 2 days. If you dont do that dont mess with it.
I dont play games on linux so I cant comment on that. At least not for now.
Not really sure the point of this post but I guess I am just so surprised how good linux has gotten. To be honest I think it was easier to set up than a fresh windows install with all the drivers and messing with it.
Snaps were released before Flatpak was. Snaps are open source. The only thing that is not open source is the Snap Store software.
Wouldn’t it be nice if some sort of open-source project could make money? Maybe if the Snap Store wasn’t shunned by so many people. It’s almost entirely free software in the store. I don’t know if I’ve seen anything that costs money.
Some commercial software which is “free” really uses you as their product, or rather, your data.
Zoom, for example, scans your machine’s hardware and who knows what they’re doing with your meetings.
Spotify has an ad-supported tier these days. In essence their software is free, but you get ads between the songs you listen to, which is, I think, highly frustrating. On top of that they collect data on your listening habits.
So, yes, there’s commercial software in the snap store, but 99% of the time you’re paying through some other means.
That being said, I don’t know whether the snap store or flatpak even have capabilities to directly pay (either one time or periodically) for software. I don’t think that’s technically even possible with those stores.
The principle of open source is that those who write software can give their work a ‘life’ by giving it away . Those entities ,like Ubuntu, who collect freely given software to make a distro, should not have to pay for it , and in turn should not charge for it. If money has to be made, there are other avenues, like ads and service contracts.
Linux itself is the ultimate proof that “the best way to keep something is to give it away”. I can not imagine that Linus Torvalds would be in the position he is in today, if he had sold Linux.
This is true and this is exactly what Canonical does. All their software is freely available. If you would like to have official support, you can buy Ubuntu Pro. If you are a home user, Ubuntu Pro is free for up to 5 computers.
One used to be able to purchase CD’s containing free software. You paid a packaging and mailing fee.
Now , with the internet, there are no packaging or distribution fees.
I am not sure why internet use ( for downloads or anything else) is free , except for your ISP access cost, but that is the way it has evolved. The money goes to the local service provider, not to the content providers.
I encountered both these bugs in Mint Cinnamon last year, my first Linux distro. I changed to LMDE 6, then 7, and it’s been stable with no issues that I’ve had to find a solution to. I’ll probably stick with it for my Preowned ThinkPad.