You have had many answers, all of them revolving around Debian / Ubuntu. Yet it doesn’t give the “like-windows” esperience. It’s More like “slightly windows-flavored Linux”.

For a more Windows-like Linux, which helped me transition easily because I retained muscle memory, is Zorin OS.

There is nothing locked outside Pro version that you can’t get by installing it manually :)

Bro is thick. He just wants to hear sorry bro, can’t be done to justify the fact that he’ll be doing this by hand, because he wants to.

Syncthing has been discontinued on android (but a fork exists)

You should be able to do it. I dual booted nobara / arch / windows in the beginning

None ! That’s the greatest thing. Take the time to read the welcome message (you know that window that come when you first boot any distro) and follow any instruction. It should work out of the box.

Okay, I had the same problem with a 3060 laptop. The easy answer is : your next distro should be Nobara.

These errors happen because your computer does not use your Nvidia GPU but the AMD one. There is no hardware acceleration.

In Nobara, everything comes preinstalled and preconfigured. I didn’t have those problems anymore.

(If you fancy masochism, you can also go the Arch or NixOS way)

In the case of NixOS, the question would then be : “How much pain in the ass is it to install NixOS, really ?”

I think it has to be NixOS. The config language is plain demonic

I have a few questions :

How do you put the titlebar buttons in a panel ?

How do you make it so it doesn’t have a titlebar ?

What Plasma theme are you using ?

My simple adive : do what you want to do and don’t do what’s you don’t want to do.

Has “non techy” evaded you ?

I get what you are saying but at the same time I have a MSI laptop that I bought in 2020. It has a nvidia video card.

Bloody thing was always a pain in the arse. I couldn’t plug the HDMI to the TV and get it working straight away.

Everytime I wanted to play on my TV I had to plug the HDMI, go to the device management, uninstall intel video drivers, same with the nvidia drivers then reinstall first the nvidia driver then the intel one.

And that only worked until I turned the PC or it went into hibernation.

Now that it’s running on Win11, no amount of driver reinstall can get it to work. It’s laptop screen or bust.

With Linux I just plug the HDMI in and it works. The only limitation is that I can’t get it to work with 4K60, as it should. It only works with 1080p30.

But I guess I can’t always win…

It’s true, it also doesn’t block images that have these words, but you filter more than 90% of the posts that you wouldn’t want to see.

I have a filter on, I block the words “Elon”, “Kamala” and “Trump”. Furthermore I block politics community. It’s not like they are about anything else than US politics anyway.

This is the most accurate answer. I have found Nobara to be everything I could ask for gaming.

I might add that, if he also wants a normal desktop experience, separate from gaming, he should consider trying Zorin or Mint.

Iirc, Zorin comes with nvidia/amd drivers already installed and the experience is close enough to Windows that he might stay on Linux.

Arch, with XFCE and the strict bare minimum. Ex : midori instead of firefox, etc. Don’t dream about CAD

Thank you for your answer. I also read that thread but unfortunately modinfo return module not found…

sudo -i ?

That might be true…

I found a solution, I compiled the program on my Arch distro and installed it on Nobara. But it couldn’t read anything since the ec_sys module was missing so I sorta just gave up.