• Mechaguana@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Get an immutable distro. That way when you inevitably destroy it, it comes back from the dead!

    (Disclaimer: I still havent tried, Im too scared, I just got the nvdia slowly blurring my screen after sleeping working again)

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      1 month ago

      Anyone know if Ublue Aurora works out of the box with a MacBook like OP has? I’ve got a 2014 MacBook Pro that I’m probably putting Linux on next year once I no longer need Mac OS.

      My gaming laptop, with an Nvidia graphics card, is running Bazzite and I’ve never had any issues with it (of course, ymmv).

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        1 month ago

        I think, maybe the wifi driver will not work out of box. it Most likely has the same broadcom wifi card. EndeavourOS was the only OS where wifi worked out of box. With the other, I had to either get de b43 firmware files or install the wl driver from broadcom. Wl driver seemed to achieve a more stable condition.

        If it has a legacy nvidia, like mine (750m), your best bet is using nouveau driver, which comes out of box, and is mostly wayland compatible (it just worked on kde and gave this glitchfest on hyprland.

        If you want dual boot like me, you have to shrink and create the new partition as fat32 in macOS first.

        I have never tried immutable yet

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      1 month ago

      I’m a complete linux noob currently using Bazzite and its treated me well so far. I just web browse and game on this machine though, no professional or special requirements like some have.

      • Mechaguana@programming.dev
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        1 month ago

        Yeah im using bazzite as well. My 4070 is kinda causing me some headaches as the driver seems to crash my firefox constantly when using KDE which pushed me back to X11 but its been a while since I tested it out again.