Trying to install Fedora to use some Linux stuff

- have to try booting up 3 times to boot into the live env successfully

- keyboard doesn't work, try booting up again

- installer crashes

Yeah fuck this back to Windows it is.

Unstable build channel? Mint instead?

^hypocritical though, I also give up and go back to my comfort zone.

Try ElementaryOS. This is awesome

@uyouthe Hate elementary's design, it's too Apple (not a big fan of the way they design stuff).

@svgPhoenix I ran Manjaro for 2 months till it crashed with some weird error and I erased it instead of bothering to recover it. That's the longest a Linux install has ever lasted for me.

Mint is possible and I actually like it but at this stage I might as well stick to my comfort zone (Windows).

I don't think I can afford to run an unstable build. I need to get Blender running and rendering for hours at a time and automate some video stuff via ffmpeg by Tuesday, deadline. WSL it is, I guess.

@RememberMe wsl is great :D
VS code can actually use its gcc if you configure it properly. Used that to do all my homework for a Linux course I took last semester

@svgPhoenix Yup. I use it quite often. If Windows wasn't so crap at IO performance it would actually solve all my Linux needs. That, and if MS respected user privacy. Oh well.

Right now for me it's a choice between shady MS privacy stuff and Linux fucking up on basic shit all the fucking time (basic for me as a user, not for the os devs) which leads to me not getting any work done.

Thanks for the tip about gcc on WSL, will check out. That would solve another big problem for me.

Almost one year on linux mint and i've installed/uninstalled a lot of things (VoIP server, DBs, WebServer) and still works fine. Stable asf

@RememberMe I would suggest going for a Debian (or CentOS) if you don't want something to break easily. But I understand your struggle, haha

@Jilano indeed I use CentOS on my other machine
Rock solid. Love it. Not really suitable for graphics/animation type stuff though, unless you have extremely well supported hardware (I don't) or want to work with Autodesk products, specifically Maya (I don't).

Best combo I've found till now is Windows for graphics and CentOS for servers, rendering, file management etc.

@Haxk20 wish I could afford to do that mate
When deadlines come into the equation you tend to be a little less forgiving of stuff

@RememberMe Manjaro is the only distro I never managed to fuck up 😂 it just works, but Linux can always be a hassle with drivers so I guess that could've been a problem on your side.

@jschmold I was actually using Fedora Cinnamon, heh. And I use a custom desktop, no Optimus crap here. Thanks for the link though, might come in handy.

@frickerg Manjaro is the closest I've come to "it just works" on a Linux distro but even that fucks up. Oh well. Some more time I guess.

I wouldn't give the "it just works" tag to anything but Windows yet.