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Switch to Linux, today. It's always been the better option, but for the last decade it's been the easier option as well. Installing Linux is a walk in the park whereas windows is a Hilarious clown show from hell with no end.
That reminds me that now in the office we're dealing with windows machines where the network card just stops working, drivers are suddenly gone. Don't ask, it's windows, it's Microsoft abd this is just considered normal. If a Linux machine has a bug it's "oh my god Linux sucks sooo hard, it's impossible to get it to work!" but this Microsoft bullshit just gets handwaved away with "well computers are complicated, let's just reinstall this"
Yes, there is still a limited set of specialty hardware that may not have drivers available for Linux, but the vast majority of people can easily run Linux and have a much MUCH better experience than windows, and that is ignoring the spyware, the adware, the ads, the plain security nightmare of having a windows machine....
Switch to Linux, it's easy, it's beautiful, it's fun. Come to Linux, come to the dark side, we have cookies
As a server maybe. Switching everything on my desktop to Linux has been a constant fight against all kinds of problems and there's several things I haven't been able to get working at all. Microsoft's constant enshittification is closing the gap and it's currently a tossup between which one I'm going to land on but that's not Linux improving so much as Windows getting worse.
It's very hardware dependent with a few problem's like Nvidia. For Best results go established brands that support Linux like thinkpads.
That advice doesn't help much when I already have all the hardware. The whole point is not having to buy new shit.
I wasn't trying to give you advice, I was describing the situation in general. 🤷
Exactly, I have a bunch of weird issues when running Linux on my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX3060. So unfortunately I w9nt be switching until the situation improves.
It's not even about gaming either, virtually all animations are like 2fps, no matter the drivers or power management. I wasted days on this with some guys from the Lenovo Legion Linux discord server, and some with exactly the same laptop don't have the same issue, but windows runs fine.
It's a real shame that, maybe on the next laptop!
Is your model covered by a NixOS module?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master/lenovo/legion
Could give one of these a twirl and see if it fixes the issues you've been seeing.
Thanks for the lead, but I'm afraid I don't know what to do with these modules. Do they only work with NixOS?
Yeah sorry should have listed that, they do require a NixOS installation.
Pick a DE for the installer, and if you want to change DE the installer will guide you through the process.
Then it will leave you with a config file and some man pages, it's a bit much at first but spend some time with it. In my eyes easily one of the better distros out there.