Same here. It seems like the only reason some people call me is to fix their damn computers. One by one, I've been telling them to go kick rocks. @GOD666: Talk to John Sutherland. He knows Linux well.
I also have not had "luck" with Linux Mint I always have problems. What people usually talk about Linux is true you have to test for yourself several distros until you find the ideal one for you and your hardware. I suggest testing Manjaro because it has the same user-friendly philosophy as Linux Mint and it seemed more stable and also more complete. Or even Ubuntu but in my experience from a long time ago Ubuntu with Unity works best with Intel CPU and nvidia GPU. I already used it on my PC in that order Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Opensuse, Elementary OS and finally Fedora and tested Manjaro on VMware. At the moment I tested Ubuntu 16.04.1 on VMware and now installing the antergos in VMware. I am in doubt between Manjaro and Ubuntu to use as definitive system.
If you have a single NVIDIA GPU or regular SLI, Linux is much less hassle, but almost every distro (that isn't a respin of another) has a different process for installing the drivers. Ubuntu has the graphics PPA, Fedora has either RPM Fusion or negativo17 (the only major difference being is that RPM Fusion's packages support KMS; negativo17's packaging is nicer though), Solus provides their own package (probably the easiest distro), openSUSE Leap has an official NVIDIA repo, and openSUSE Tumbleweed is manual. Things become much more "fun" on any other distro that isn't Ubuntu when Optimus is involved, and not only varies depending on the distro, but also the desktop environment (mostly involving the xrandr auto-start script locations). But I guess the good news is is that once you understand how it works, it's easy to adapt to other distros/DEs But basically, the easiest distros for handling Optimus afaik are Ubuntu (super-easy; install the graphics PPA, reboot, win), or Fedora (doesn't require as-much configuration as other distros, just a single xorg.conf snippet and some kernel option changes/additions). The easiest distros for handling single-GPU NVIDIA or SLI (in-theory) are Solus (use their GUI thing to install the driver, reboot, win) or Ubuntu (same as Optimus, install the graphics PPA, reboot, win). I took the AMD GPU I had for granted with drivers on Linux; it was just ready-to-go on all distros with the option for me to tweak it a little further if I wanted. Maybe even adding a repo for more bleeding-edge components. I don't know what some people were talking about when they claimed the driver situation for NVIDIA on Linux was better... I don't think I had anywhere near as much trouble back when I was dealing with fglrx or even ndiswrapper
On my old PC I had an AMD HD5770 and it was where I started on linux using Ubuntu. With the opensource drivers I had no problems but the performance was not very good and with the proprietary drivers I had several crashes. I migrated to Linux Mint with KDE and same thing but the problems were a bit different. Then I got a laptop with an Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPU and I felt better but I still did not find the performance satisfactory in Ubuntu so I used other distros with KDE like Linux Mint, Opensuse... I currently use a PC with a Geforce GTX 750 but have only tested Fedora with Gnome and the nouveau drivers so far. I found the performance to be excellent
@Espionage724,AeonX,et.al. : Thank you so much for sharing your experiences! I would like to see a similar thread to the thread that lobo11 created done in the Linux section of MDL. Then, other Linux n00bs (like Me ) could benefit from this info.
MJ, why not start one, Just use all search tools, search here at MDL and everywhere else, copy from mine what you want, there may be people counting on you
Do you have a least this: Here's what Microsoft says you need to run Windows 10: Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster. RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) Free hard disk space: 16 GB. Graphics card: Microsoft DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver. A Microsoft account and Internet access. Did you have Win 7 under Win 10, kinda sounds like you may have had program with Win 7 that did not play well with Win 10, I would try again without programs, install them in Win 10 environment, probably a driver that does not play well with Win 10. If you did not have Win 7 under Windows 10, I would check RAM, and make sure all programs you install are compatible with Win 10, if computer does it again, look in event viewer and get error code.
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Mac might seem like a nice change from Windows, but you'll soon realise how limited/locked down it is compared Hope you're not a gamer
probably the stupid autoreboot on update - that pissed me off a lot too can't believe I forgot about it (I have loads of stuff going at once on my laptop - having it disappear b/c update... )
Out of curiosity, what sort of things can Windows do that macOS can't? If anything, I'd expect macOS to be a bit more flexible with Unix at the core The only thing I'm aware of is gaming (depending on what you play anyway). My only real exposure to macOS (well, OS X at the time) was back in the Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard days with a hackintosh set-up (the Acer laptop I had at the time had mostly compatible hardware for it).