Okay, I'm doing it. I'm giving #Linux a fair shot for the first time in about a decade. You fediverse people convinced me.
Well, that went poorly. Just a bunch of blank screens and unresponsive flashing cursors, even after updating graphics drivers.
Oh well. Maybe I'll try again in 2034.
So, I figure, maybe it was just not the best distro. So, I try downloading a whole other one. It has its own program to download an image and write it to a USB stick. Great. I wait and that finishes and I try to boot it and... it fails disk validation.
People, this is why #Linux will never overtake Apple & Microsoft. I want to believe and I'm super tech oriented and I can't even install the damn thing.
Continued misadventures with trying and failing to install #Linux:
I re-downloaded the Fedora image and it still failed to validate before installation.
I tried the latest bleeding edge version of LinuxMint and it only shows up on one monitor (even though the desktop covers the others). Once I update the graphics driver, it stops showing up at all, and all I get after login is a black screen with a frozen mouse.
PopOS installed easily enough, but whenever I tried to adjust the display settings, I'd lose all displays and have to reboot. Also, running apt-get upgrade caused the whole OS to crash.
Anyone got any other suggestions for distros that might actually work for a dev machine with a 3080?
@LouisIngenthron
Wow. Sorry to hear about your issues. I recently had a few issues myself with second screens and #OpenSuse.
Honestly, whenever I have issues with other distros on certain machines I turn to #Ubuntu and it never failes me, but of course #PopOS should be pretty much the same. Did you check if switching between the Wayland or X11 display manager on login makes your experience better?
Besides, there's still #Manjaro. They got some bad press recently, but I kind of enjoy it.
@sustainrelease Didn't see any option for X11. Just tried Wayland but the whole install must be borked somehow now because any attempt to login just leads to a blank black screen with an endlessly flashing cursor.
