Distros with “apt” …Updater breaks at some point for me, because an installed package is newer than expected. …However that’s possible? The terminal then said I could try fixing that with some command it even provides. But… it doesn’t fix it.
Manjaro …Updater breaks at some point for me if I dare to use 2 or 3 things from AUR.
Currently it’s not possible to use openSUSE with AMD hardware, because there’s a kernel bug regarding the AMD drivers (which leads to random freezes and reboots multiple times a day), and openSUSE doesn’t provide any way to downgrade the kernel to before 6.4 …if you’re feeling lucky you can opt-in to try 6.5-RC though. In 6.5 the issue got fixed by accident, as in “nobody knows what did it”, but it was still annoying for laptop users, as you need to manually start games with DRI_PRIME=1 %command% as 6.5 apparently is still unable to toggle between iGPU and dGPU, an issue also introduced with 6.4, as far I remember.
Right now I’m on Debian, because Debian is using the 6.1 kernel and with 6.1 the world was still okay. But, Debian is more work than I expected. Before Debian I had the impression that Linux is easy and “just works”. Yes, really… But in Debian I first needed to modify the sudoers, then I was unable to use the “pip” command in the terminal… meanwhile I am able to use the command, but it doesn’t what I want it to do. Then native Lutris tells me something about missing drivers. Flatpak Lutris tells me something about esync. Can’t install native Steam because apt tells me that something is missing, but it also says it’s unable to provide it. …et cetera.
I’m since the 6.4 kernel so damn annoyed, really… Oh well, but I have a spine, dislike Microsoft for various reasons and I hated Windows10 after only one day. …And, if someone understands German and read my post history here, oh well, it’s okay, my life’s overall shit… A semi-useless Debian is still a lot better than a Fedora or openSUSE that freezes multiple times a day for absolutely no reason aside from “amdgpio invalid info param 0014” (at least that is what openSUSE shows me when I force reboot…)
If that is too far offtopic or something… I will throw a coin into the Ubuntu box. Fck Canonical.
You could look into endeavour OS. It’s arch-based, but closer to plain arch than manjaro. It should let you choose which kernel version to use.
Another option might be garuda linux. It’s a arch-based gaming-focused distro. So it should be flexible as well, but it did break frequently on my system back when I tried it out.
Otherwise Alma Linux (Red Hat based) might be running older kernel versions as well.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know, thanks for your input. I followed it, but sadly I can’t go to kernel 5.x in Endeavour either. Well, now I can only hope 6.5 is going to fix it already, because, apparently 6.1 already had that issue I mentioned in my previous post too. I’m… kinda impressed that Fedora, where I had them first, was stable until 6.4. Oh well…
Distros with “apt” …Updater breaks at some point for me, because an installed package is newer than expected. …However that’s possible? The terminal then said I could try fixing that with some command it even provides. But… it doesn’t fix it.
Manjaro …Updater breaks at some point for me if I dare to use 2 or 3 things from AUR.
Currently it’s not possible to use openSUSE with AMD hardware, because there’s a kernel bug regarding the AMD drivers (which leads to random freezes and reboots multiple times a day), and openSUSE doesn’t provide any way to downgrade the kernel to before 6.4 …if you’re feeling lucky you can opt-in to try 6.5-RC though. In 6.5 the issue got fixed by accident, as in “nobody knows what did it”, but it was still annoying for laptop users, as you need to manually start games with
DRI_PRIME=1 %command%as 6.5 apparently is still unable to toggle between iGPU and dGPU, an issue also introduced with 6.4, as far I remember.Right now I’m on Debian, because Debian is using the 6.1 kernel and with 6.1 the world was still okay. But, Debian is more work than I expected. Before Debian I had the impression that Linux is easy and “just works”. Yes, really… But in Debian I first needed to modify the sudoers, then I was unable to use the “pip” command in the terminal… meanwhile I am able to use the command, but it doesn’t what I want it to do. Then native Lutris tells me something about missing drivers. Flatpak Lutris tells me something about esync. Can’t install native Steam because apt tells me that something is missing, but it also says it’s unable to provide it. …et cetera.
I’m since the 6.4 kernel so damn annoyed, really… Oh well, but I have a spine, dislike Microsoft for various reasons and I hated Windows10 after only one day. …And, if someone understands German and read my post history here, oh well, it’s okay, my life’s overall shit… A semi-useless Debian is still a lot better than a Fedora or openSUSE that freezes multiple times a day for absolutely no reason aside from “amdgpio invalid info param 0014” (at least that is what openSUSE shows me when I force reboot…)
If that is too far offtopic or something… I will throw a coin into the Ubuntu box. Fck Canonical.
You could look into endeavour OS. It’s arch-based, but closer to plain arch than manjaro. It should let you choose which kernel version to use. Another option might be garuda linux. It’s a arch-based gaming-focused distro. So it should be flexible as well, but it did break frequently on my system back when I tried it out. Otherwise Alma Linux (Red Hat based) might be running older kernel versions as well.
Hey, I just wanted to let you know, thanks for your input. I followed it, but sadly I can’t go to kernel 5.x in Endeavour either. Well, now I can only hope 6.5 is going to fix it already, because, apparently 6.1 already had that issue I mentioned in my previous post too. I’m… kinda impressed that Fedora, where I had them first, was stable until 6.4. Oh well…