You probably won’t be able to run an LTS kernel on a brand new PC that just hit the market. But using the most recent kernel for arch or a derivative like endevorOS should work after like a week maximum.
I did have an issue like this on Ubuntu and its what made me actually start distro hopping since it worked fine on fedora and Arch using the latest kernels.
Use whatever you want for personal. But I would suggest trying to use containers for hosting if you haven’t already. It really blows the idea of needing a stable OS out of the water since you can just declare everything you want in a config file and tear down and spin up with the app you need ready in less than a minute.
You can use Ubuntu still of course in a container. But things get really interesting when you use smaller attack surface distros like Alpine, BusyBox, or even a distroless container.
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I’ve been running Manjaro for about 6 years. I’ve only had self induced issues.
Arch is a better OS in that you have more control of exactly what it will do. But Manjaro also provides a great experience out of the box with all the major DEs. It really comes down to how much convenience are you willing to trade for control.
For what it’s worth, I’ve only noticed the slower Manjaro repo helping me once when steam fonts broke on the arch repo. So I basically had a warning and was able to switch to the beta version of the steam client to avoid that issue. So the slower Manjaro repo is not a selling point IMO, but the DE tweaks and configurations are.
The best thing about arch is the wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.
If you like xfce, I think that kde is more similar to it than gnome. So I would recommend giving kde a try too.
An easy way to test out both is to just use a live image booted from a USB. You could always install them to your everyday PC but then you have a lot more packages installed and I personally would rather keep my installed packages to a minimum. If you can’t do a live cd because your os doesn’t provide one then I would try a vm or a different drive that you can boot into.
It will depend on the update.
Either way, If I want to have a windows install, it’s either
Dual booting is fine if you are using 2 Linux OSes.
If one partition has windows installed an update can hijack the Linux partition or remove the grub.
I haven’t tried to do this. But maybe Kodi? Jellyfin might also work.
Arch, NixOS and openSUSE Tumbleweed are very supported.
Source: https://wiki.hyprland.org/Getting-Started/Installation/
I would recommend an Arch based distro if you want to keep it simple. That will give you access to the AUR and compatibility with the arch wiki.
PS: Arch can be very stable, especially if you use an LTS kernel and don’t restart during updates.
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