You are right that the terminal is a really useful tool. But for the average user, the terminal is intimidating.

No other OS works like Linux in term of UX. You can use iOS or Windows without a command line all your life.

As this post describe, it is next to impossible with a Linux Distro.

For the people that want Linux to be mainstream, this is an important hurdle to go over.

I know that Windows sometimes removed the bed where you need to edit a register or use PowerShell, but for the vast majority of people, it won’t be needed ever in their life.

I am mostly gaming these days but a few months a year, there is a 3d printed project with some embedded components so I’d like the distro to be relatively easy to use in those cases.

Thanks for the explanation.

I don’t have a lot of time these days, so my PC is mostly used for gaming at the moment. So I am not too worried about the OS being immutable if the gaming is good out of the box.

I still keep a kubuntu os and dual boot the other os I want to try on another ssd.

How is Bazzite for other things than gaming? For me, mainly embedded dev and productivity.

Linux Mint would be an OS built on the Linux Kernel.

Some people have a hang-up on calling any Linux kernel based OS “Linux”, because unlike its competitor, there is a lot of OS flavors.

You have “main” OSes (Debian, Fedora, etc.) and derivative OSes based on these “main” OSes.

Linux Mint for example, is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.

At this point, it is semantics.

I recently switched to KDE. What tweaks do you recommend (other than finding a theme you like)?

Ubuntu is a great gateway distro to Linux. It ressemble Windows a lot, stable and straight forward to install and use.

So a new user is not too lost when switching over.

And, yeah, privacy is not that great, but having installed windows 11 on a new PC, Ubuntu is a lot better than windows

Ventoy has changed my life. No more having to find a unused usb key to format then flash.

Just drop the ISO, boot on the key and choose whatever you want to try/install.

Thanks for the input, but I am just not using the kvm anymore. It’s flaky even in normal use. I will get a wireless mouse with connection profile and have 2 cables for my keyboard.

That’s something I will try. My only gripe with that explanation is that I didn’t have the issue when my windows machine (which is exactly the same as it is now, except with Kubuntu) was using the same mouse, keyboard and setup.

I could try to put a mouse directly on my PC and keep my keyboard as is to see if I can trigger the issue. I might be on the brink of overcurrent and when the GPU is running hotter, it might trip the power drain.

My intuition is that since the nvidia driver on linux isn’t great, there might be an issue between the GPU and the HDMI connection to the monitor. And since the functionality of the KVM depends on the HDMI connection to the PC, if there is an issue, that might cause the issue. In the Xorg log, we can see that there is a hiccup with the GPU and it seems to be restarting the hdmi.

Still, I will try to lower the power consumption by reducing the GPU load, and any settings I can change on my monitor and see if that causes issues.

That’s a lot of great advices. Thanks

Right now, my configuration is 2 hdmi cables for video output (one in my pc and the other in my work pc), a usb connection from each of these computer to the monitor (usb c for the work pc and usb b for the pc) and my mouse an keyboard are plugged each into their own usb port on the integrated kvm.

My monitor is updated to the latest firmware, and bios is updated to the last firmware it can be (it’s an old motherboard, so not really supported anymore).

I doubt that the bios is the issue here because I had the same bios back on windows 10, and I didn’t have the issue back then.

But that a good avenue to explore still. Thanks for your input.

Unless there is a specific niche software that is only on windows, you shouldn’t have issues out of the box.

Some games have some compatibility issues, but it is getting better everyday.

I think the biggest hurdle for many people is that they are so used to Windows that it is daunting learning a new way of using their computer.

But once you get over that hurdle, it is frustrating going back to Windows. The amount of ads and pop-ups in Windows is criminal.

Try to use a user friendly distro. I use Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE plasma) and it is great.

Windows wouldn’t be too terrible if it wasn’t for all the pop ups all the time.

I need to work with it because I need to create a WPF app with Visual Studio, and when I switch from Windows to my personal computer, the difference is mind blowing.

Windows push you removeding add with a notification sound. It’s probably on me that I didn’t disable yet, but I don’t have to do that on any Linux distro.

I use my 3d printer sparingly. I don’t like printing useless stuff, so I design parts when needed if I can’t find them somewhere else.

Voron seems to be a project in itself haha.

I know that bambu slicer is a reskin of prusa slicer, but it feels a bit janky.

We have a bambu p1p at work and it’s a good machine, but I am not a fan of closed machines because you depend on the manufacturer to get the part to service your machine.

At least with a prusa I know I can find parts from other suppliers if needed

Both are capable, but the biggest difference is open source (Prusa) vs Closed source (Bambu).

I much prefer the open source projects over proprietary projects, so the Prusa is a no brainer for me. But if that is not something that matters, then both are solid options.

It sucks haha. All the time when switching between a terminal and a browser.