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Cool cool. Now if only linux worked on my PC. Tried like 6 distros and each had their own issues preventing me from playing games.
Kind of curious about the hardware, because this seems kind of unlikely.
Ryzen 7 5800x with 32GB ram and a rtx3070.
Some systems failed to install or failed to complete the setup after installing. While others did technically work but the experience was just bad. Most games I tried ran like shit conpared to win11.
Hows your hardware?
Memtest your RAM?
HDD or SSD? How old are they, they got any problems?
If you keep hitting problems on connecting to timezone, it might be your wifi chip / card, could be that its an odd duck that still has driver quirks on linux, + is maybe physically damaged... could lead to a lot of nonsense if you are actually grabbing malformed core files from a not fully offline install.
Hardware's fine I think. Using a 4th gen m.2 no real issues and most pf the stuff is about 6 years old. The only distro I had timezone issues with was Fedora
Ok so 'I think' is not the same as 'yes I tested it and I know'.
But anyway... yeah you'd have to give a more detailed description of... well, pick one particular attempt at an OS install, and specifically describe what did or did not work, with that one.
I'm not trying to be an ass, but its basically impossible to troubleshoot when the info you have is 'i tried a bunch of things and they all didn't work in different ways'.
Gotta be able to go through an actual diagnosis of a defined scenario.
It's unlikely to be a hardware issue if Windows works fine for them.
I know. Well I never tested stuff because apart from shit nvidia drivers I never had issues on windows. What would you like me to test anyway? Memtest or give some suggestions.
The only real tangible issue was the one I mentioned on fedora with the timezone selection issue. All the other distros either did nowlt want to install or just had general performance issues either in the DE or just in games. Especially the 2 games I really only care about. Squad 44 and War thunder (the only ones I actually play) both ran like shit on all the distros I tried (bazzite, nobara, debian, cachyOS)
Does that include the gaming-centric distros like CachyOS or Bazzite?
Both of those plus Nobara