After I left Bazzite i switched to Garuda, which is also gaming and performance focused. I also chose the xfce option, which has been great.

If your are considering switching, give Garuda a look. I’m also on a gigabyte board with an Nvidia card.

Honestly, just sit and hold his hand. You don’t need to say anything.

My family has been through two “don’t get married” interventions. Neither worked, both ended in divorce.

Neither of you have ever even had to live on your own yet. You haven’t even started learning who you are as adults.

If this does work out in the long run, it will be dumb luck. You have the same chance with any random stranger.

And since no one else has said it, I will. You were 16 dating a 14 year old, that’s not ok. At that age all she can do is cosplay a relationship, that’s a child.

One day she is going to wake up and realize she got into all this before she even understood what it was, god help you both when that happens.

Is there a Montessori school nearby? They do a great job with kids that don’t quite fit the normal school assembly line.

Garuda is Arch. You just need to get the right download for your graphics card and choose your desktop environment. It’s basically painless at this point.

It already includes all the gamer stuff and comes preconfigured for performance.

Garuda is Arch, and is also focused on being super easy, gaming focused, and performance tuned. It’s not immutable though.

Foundry has so many game systems, even systems like custom system builder, which let you make your own.

If all you want is spreadsheets, why not use shared Google docs or something?

Wasn’t there something about the saudies being complicit in 911 or something?

After breaking my hard drive with Bazzite not understanding immutability and trying to bypass it with permissions changes,I switched to Garuda as a beginner. It’s Arch based.

It has been easy, gaming just works, updates just work, it came with the drivers I need.

All this Arch hate needs to go away. It’s not what it was. I haven’t had to learn anything more complicated than Windows was.

As you are researching, take a look at Garuda. It is beginner friendly, gaming and performance focused, has good helper apps, and is Arch based so it is getting frequent updates.

I’ve been using it as a beginner for over a year and it has been capable, stable, and easy.

If you are used to steam os, also check out Bazzite, it is designed to be a similar experience.

Some families teach their kids that your ability to pick a gift directly equates to your value as a person.

Clearly her failure in this instance is more important to her than to you.

Whatever you do, try to help her feel valued.

I’d say you’re first job is to determine what you don’t want. Google the differences between distros and pick the philosophy you like. Some have corporate backing, some favor stability, some stay cutting edge, some are more community developed, etc.

I started with Bazzite (Fedora) and switched to Garuda (Arch). What got me to each was researching “best gaming Linux” and later deciding I didn’t want immutability.

I mainly just wanted it to work right out of the box, but now that I have it I also love that Arch is always keeping me up to date. There is still a lot of fear mongering about Arch, but Garuda was just as easy as Bazzite, which is recommended for beginners all the time.

I think Garuda is amazing, and recommend it wholeheartedly, but no matter what you choose there will be some learning curve, so pick something that sounds cool to you so you stay motivated to figure it out.

I use Garuda, it’s Arch and is just as easy as Bazzite.

I use Garuda. Yes, it’s Arch based, but it’s also all set up for gaming and newbie friendly. I started on Bazzite, then switched to Garuda, it’s just as easy.

We have passed the point where it has to be complicated. If you choose something like Garuda, Bazzite, or Mint, it should be a pretty straightforward switch.

No, that’s Garuda.

Also gaming focused, also super easy, not so locked down it won’t let you change your login background, also has great Nvidia support. Arch.

Yes, but you also don’t need a minority ruling class to treat everyone under their control as a disposable resource in order to be able to have money and buy things.

Instead of a system where money is power, let’s craft one where people have power. We do that by regulating away the capitalists.

“But other people who tried that ended up with despots!” Yes, well, despots will always try to take control, let’s build a society that doesn’t let them.

It amazes me how many people just think capitalism means earning money and owning things and don’t realize it is about having a minority ownership class that literally uses everyone else as a disposable resource.

Just remember, the only way to get a consistent experience across all users is to design to the least common denominator. In this case that means designing for a program that runs in an Internet browser.

That’s why the more advanced features have been disappearing over time. That’s why the older versions start having weird problems. That’s why they are dumbing everything down and making it less powerful… so it can run in edge.