I am not bad with computers and have a beginner+, maybe intermediate level knowledge of Linux and I kept running into some problems here and there with different distros. Most claimed to work out of the box (which may be the case for some users, but I have a removed ass Nvidia 1060 and that was not at all the case, until I installed Nobara KDE/Nvidia.

Just came here to potentially save someone time, this removed is actually working out of the box, closest experience to this was with Arch, but that’s definitely not out of the box.

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    8 months ago

    had friends who needed Nvidia drivers installed for compute(non gaming), borked their distro.

    What distro, and did you use official methods or something random from the internet?

    borked it by trying to install steam in a very roundabout way he found online (something a perspn learning to use linux would do often).

    I’m imagining a beginner would use their pm gui like discovery, and just change from native package to flatpak. As far as I remember, that whole Linus does Linux series was widely ridiculed in the Linux community. Like he didn’t even read the prompts before spamming y.

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      8 months ago

      What distro, and did you use official methods or something random from the internet?

      Ubuntu, for a computer engineering project

      As far as I remember, that whole Linus does Linux series was widely ridiculed in the Linux community. Like he didn’t even read the prompts before spamming y

      hence part user error, but what was not user error was there was like a week period where a bad version of steam was put up, which was what caused the problem in the first place. Having a non working version of steam was more on the maintainer end and not the user end, and looking for alternatives to get it working is 100% a new user would do, what was user negligence was the part of accepting that he was going to make distro breaking changes. Hence while ultimately his fault, it was caused by a situation completely not his fault, and he initially acted in a way most users would, which is google for workarounds.