What flavor of Linux were you trying to install? My experience on endeavoros has been pretty plug and play. I imagine it would be similar on mint, Ubuntu, fedora, Debian. If it was Linux from scratch, yeah that’s likely going to be frustrating.
It was Mint, which is why I found it odd. I’ve also used Ubuntu years ago, but that wasn’t plug-n-play either from what I remember. I spent too much time getting my sound and video cards running, and then spent twice that time getting Compiz to work so I could have all the cool effects. 😅
Honestly, just try something else. If you’re trying to do gaming, I’d recommend Garuda Dragonized from personal experience. It’s Arch based, but comes packaged with everything you’d need for gaming, and a utility to install a bunch of extra stuff you might want, like launchers, controller drivers, etc. I think it even comes with the Nvidia drivers that you’ll need to install manually for most other distros.
I my opinion it’s really ugly out of the box sadly, with a horrible “gamer” look. It’s KDE though, so it’s really easy to customize.
Truth is windows has plenty of bugs too, the main difference is that it comes pre installed so you don’t have to deal with the install bugs, and you’re already acclimated to all its quirks so you don’t notice them as much.
As for Mint, it gets recommended a lot because it’s stable and looks a lot like windows, but it’s old and slow to update to modern standards, you can always go for a more bleeding edge distribution like fedora.
What flavor of Linux were you trying to install? My experience on endeavoros has been pretty plug and play. I imagine it would be similar on mint, Ubuntu, fedora, Debian. If it was Linux from scratch, yeah that’s likely going to be frustrating.
It was Mint, which is why I found it odd. I’ve also used Ubuntu years ago, but that wasn’t plug-n-play either from what I remember. I spent too much time getting my sound and video cards running, and then spent twice that time getting Compiz to work so I could have all the cool effects. 😅
Honestly, just try something else. If you’re trying to do gaming, I’d recommend Garuda Dragonized from personal experience. It’s Arch based, but comes packaged with everything you’d need for gaming, and a utility to install a bunch of extra stuff you might want, like launchers, controller drivers, etc. I think it even comes with the Nvidia drivers that you’ll need to install manually for most other distros.
I my opinion it’s really ugly out of the box sadly, with a horrible “gamer” look. It’s KDE though, so it’s really easy to customize.
Truth is windows has plenty of bugs too, the main difference is that it comes pre installed so you don’t have to deal with the install bugs, and you’re already acclimated to all its quirks so you don’t notice them as much.
As for Mint, it gets recommended a lot because it’s stable and looks a lot like windows, but it’s old and slow to update to modern standards, you can always go for a more bleeding edge distribution like fedora.
tbf mint had a few rough edges last i tried it.