Connect to WiFi properly in a Panera (ymmv, but this was my experience with 3 different Ubuntu-based distros)
Play pretty much any game (Proton has gotten us far but it’s not the end-all-be-all)
Be usable without the command line at all (tried giving my GF Linux Mint, no it’s not entirely usable without the command line, and I haven’t found a distro that is)
*Run Nvidia flawlessly out-of-the-box
*Be backed up fully and easily (no, TimeShift is not easy, it’s just easy for you after looking up documentation for a hot minute)
*Except immutable distros like Silverblue
*I know Pop_OS! comes with Nvidia drivers before anyone says that, but it’s the odd-one-out
It’s not just Nvidia, though… I tried running a popular vpn recently on Linux and was shocked to see it wasn’t supported outside command line. This same vpn provider has an app for everything, even android TV and Roku of all things.
Just run stuff out-of-the-gate
Connect to WiFi properly in a Panera (ymmv, but this was my experience with 3 different Ubuntu-based distros)
Play pretty much any game (Proton has gotten us far but it’s not the end-all-be-all)
Be usable without the command line at all (tried giving my GF Linux Mint, no it’s not entirely usable without the command line, and I haven’t found a distro that is)
*Run Nvidia flawlessly out-of-the-box
*Be backed up fully and easily (no, TimeShift is not easy, it’s just easy for you after looking up documentation for a hot minute)
*Except immutable distros like Silverblue *I know Pop_OS! comes with Nvidia drivers before anyone says that, but it’s the odd-one-out
True, but that’s more due to Nvidia’s stubborn lack of interest than anything else.
It’s not just Nvidia, though… I tried running a popular vpn recently on Linux and was shocked to see it wasn’t supported outside command line. This same vpn provider has an app for everything, even android TV and Roku of all things.
Mullvad has a decent Linux GUI, but you have to install their service. On the positive side, it works with and without systemd.
I also had a similar experience with Nordvpn.
True, I really do think Linus was right when he said “fuck Nvidia” but sadly it’s still a point against Linux :(