• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    3 hours ago

    For some distros you might have to switch to the iwd instead of networkmanager for wifi to work correctly. You might have to disable powersaving on your wifi or Bluetooth to work correctly (…)

    And unless the people doing the “let’s use Linux for however many days” challenge have that specific issue, they won’t learn about it anyway.

    On top of that - even if they said “OK, we’re using specifically Mint for 30 days”, and then you go out and try Mint, YOU might end up with massive issues, because your hardware is not supported properly.

    They’d have to specify the OS and the hardware if you want a “reproducible experience”.

    The quality of the documentation and the user community also matters a lot in practice. Do they yell at noobs to RTFM or answer welcoming and politely?

    In my experience, after looking through r/Linux, r/Linux4noobs, or the various Linux communities on Lemmy - you’re going to get yelled at no matter the distro. It’s a matter of timing and luck (who’s currently online, and are they having a good day).

    Did you just say Ubuntu four times?

    That was kind of my point.