Hello All.

First, I have been daily driving Linux(POP_OS) for nearly a year and outside of some frustrations, it has been a great experience. I expect a certain level of weirdness and quirks. I was using my Windows laptop to get some stuff done, and wanted to listen to some music over Bluetooth. This is where I messed up. I guess recent Windows updates just kind of break Bluetooth?? Every fix I have googled and tried failed to fix the problem. I kind of expect this behavior from Linux. I don’t expect it from an OS developed by a For Profit company.

Long story short, recommend me a distro that runs well on an Asus laptop with an Integrated and Discreet GPU. If Windows breaks functionality, then there isn’t a big reason to keep a Windows Machine around. If you say Arch, I intend to bully you but I’m open to any suggestions. Microsoft isn’t worth keeping around, even as a backup/standby.

I appreciate you <3

Quick Edit: This received a lot more engagement than I thought. Thank you all for the recommendations. I’ll spin up some VM’s and test them out. Thank you all for the guidance. May your day/night/other be most excellent!

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      Be aware that Bazzite is an immutable distro. Your home directory is write enabled, but the rest of the filesystem is read-only.

      If you’re used to apt-get and such, it’s a bit of a change. Most of your apps will be flatpaks or appimages.

      Also it means system updates require a reboot.

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
        2·
        14 hours ago

        You can’t run apt-get etc. on your host, but the idea is that you create containers with whatever distribution you want through distrobox and run your commands in there. In effect, there’s pretty much no difference, especially if you set your terminal up to open into the distrobox.