• f4teEnglish
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    0
    ·
    11 months ago
    link
    fedilink

    I dunno man, I recently put Mint onto my Lenovo and the refinement just isn’t there STILL. dual monitor management isn’t very good, even mouse acceleration doesn’t play well when you go from the touchpad to an external mouse. Sure, many things have improved, but the fit and finish just isn’t even where windows was a decade ago

    • warmasterEnglish
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      0
      ·
      11 months ago
      edit-2
      11 months ago
      link
      fedilink

      I have dual monitors with different scaling and refresh rates, both work perfectly. Even VRR works as expected. I’m using Manjaro KDE with Wayland, Intel CPU, AMD GPU.

      Linux Mint hasn’t finished their work on Wayland and thus, the things you are experiencing are unfortunately expected. So you might want to try with another distro with GNOME or KDE.

      When people suggested you Mint, they were wrong in ignoring your setup.

      • AuxEnglish
        arrow-up
        0
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        11 months ago
        link
        fedilink

        That’s another issue with Linux: one thing works in distro X and another thing works in distro Y. OS should just work. Linux doesn’t.

        • warmasterEnglish
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          0
          ·
          11 months ago
          edit-2
          11 months ago
          link
          fedilink

          Linux works. It’s only a Kernel.

          Android is also a linux distro. To you, it might seem as another OS. So from that point of view, each distro would be a dIfferent OS. So you should judge each distro as such.

          So, what people told you Linux is, in fact that Kernel on top of a ton other software.

          You can’t expect all distros to be the same. Because their purposes are different.

          • AuxEnglish
            arrow-up
            0
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            11 months ago
            link
            fedilink

            That’s not what people mean when saying “switch to Linux”.

            • warmasterEnglish
              arrow-up
              0
              arrow-down
              0
              ·
              11 months ago
              edit-2
              11 months ago
              link
              fedilink

              They mean a Linux based OS, and say Linux for short. They could also say GNU/Linux, but chose not to. I do it every single time, but its for convenience, but technically imprecise.

              When we are talking about distributions being different, that’s their whole purpose, since their only common denominator is the underlying kernel.

              • AuxEnglish
                arrow-up
                0
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                11 months ago
                link
                fedilink

                You’re just moving the conversion sideways. If you have nothing to say on the topic - move on.

    • Cosmic ClericEnglish
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago
      link
      fedilink

      Try Fedora with KDE.

      In my opinion it’s the best one for having the most ease-of-use hardware support out of the box, as they’re backed by IBM, which used to own Lenovo.