I’m not a master pro Linux user. I’ve dabbled over the years several times. It’s been about 6-8 years since I’ve last used it. I am having the absolute worst experience I have ever had with any OS so far, I have to be doing something wrong.
First. R7 5800x3d. 32gb ram. Rtx 3060. Nvme dual boot.
Problems so far, this is my first day. One, changing my monitors orientation and position cause my mouse to be on one screen and actively click on a different screen.
Whenever I open settings to change date and time the program crashes.
My mouse movement is that of a spastic child and is not smooth and I can’t install ghub on Linux, so I’m forced to use the OS adjustments, which in turn crash the settings application.
The OS is SLOW! like insanely slow. I open discord and literally 3-4 minutes goes by before the loading pop up appears.
If I click in an icon, there is no indication that I clicked it until 1-2 minutes later, this even happens with like Firefox or chrome, file browser. Any app.
I have to have a password to do anything. Why? No one is going to steal my PC, boot it up and smash f11 to get into my Linux box where I’m just messing around.
I don’t understand… I have used Ubuntu before, fedora, mint and a few others. But it just seems like it’s absolutely garbage right now.
Do I have to install certain things? Do I have to install Nvidia drivers? Doni have to install chipset drivers?
And honestly question, why do simple takes require you to “run a script”? Like why?
WHICH LINUX❓
I believe the Nvidia driver situation still sucks and maybe always will due to Nvidia incalcitrance. You could try pulling out that 3060 board. Next, what motherboard are you using? That might also have compatibility issues. Other than that, dual booting has sometimes been a pain, but if the system is coming up you’ve gotten past that. Your system is pretty powerful and should work well.
Nvidia is fine and I have a 3080. I have vrr on my 4k display working fine when run with 2 non vrr 1080p monitors, and full hdr support. That’s using the 570 driver in fedora.
I know some people have gotten Nvidia stuff working, but from what I can tell, it’s still iffy. Maybe you were lucky.
so, is this a rant or do you need some help?
I don’t know man, those are some strange behaviors. Can’t say I’ve experienced any of them. There does seem to be a common theme of slow and delayed responses, that is almost certainly a hardware issue from my experience, but that doesn’t line up with the specs you mention.
Regarding the privilege issues, running a general user without superuser privileges is a standard practice for Linux. You can change your user to a superuser though, there are plenty of walkthroughs available to accomplish that. That will keep you from having to run sudo, doas or enter your password as often. Some things will always require a passcode though, as that’s just what the best practices of the tech landscape indicate.
Maybe buy a system preinstalled with Linux.
That way you know the hardware supports Linux, and the Distro has the necessary drivers.Them: You fixed it! What was it?
Me: No problem, just another ID-10-T error
Are you having a stroke? Is there someone I can call for you?
This entire rant manages to give absolutely no useful information to what your problem could be besides some components. We dont even know what "OS’ you are on.
manages to give absolutely no useful information to what your problem could be
It is clear to me this is either a troll, or a layer 8 issue.
